1 spot in the College Football Playoff, makes Young the only Heisman-winning quarterback since 2000 to take down the nation’s No. That takedown, which propelled the Crimson Tide to the No.
You want a Heisman Moment? There was the Iron Bowl comeback to save the season and then 60 minutes more of them in torching Georgia’s top-ranked defense – which had allowed 236 yards and 7.5 points per game - for 461 total yards and four touchdowns in the SEC Championship Game, his closing argument in the race. You want numbers? Young has them, throwing for 4,322 yards and 40 touchdowns, better than the average of the previous 10 quarterbacks to claim the award. Here’s what my final ballot looked liked, and what went into those decisions: 1. As for the rest of the ballot, it was one of the more difficult ones in my decade-plus as a voter. 1 Georgia in the SEC Championship Game, a performance that catapulted Alabama to the top spot in the College Football Playoff. The voting totals proved this was an easy pick following Young’s dissection of then-No. It also marked the fourth win for the program in all, with Mark Ingram (2009), Derrick Henry (2015), Smith and Young, each coming with Nick Saban as coach. In following DeVonta Smith’s win last season, the Crimson Tide join Yale (1936 and ’37), Army (1945 and ’46), Ohio State (1974 and ’75), USC (2004 and the vacated ’05 win) and Oklahoma (2017 and ’18) as the only teams to win consecutive Heismans. Young’s margin of victory was ninth all-time, while he claimed 83 percent of the possible points (seventh in voting history) and his 684 first-place votes was 10th. Stroud, the last of the finalists, in fourth. Pitt’s Kenny Pickett followed in third, with Ohio State’s C.J. For me, Its always been about not really proving them wrong, but proving to myself what I can accomplish.” People a lot of times have told me that I wasn’t going to be able to make it. “Being an African-American quarterback, being ‘undersized’ and not being the prototype, I’ve always been ruled out and kind of got doubted. “For me, I’ve always been someone who’s been labeled as ‘not the prototype,’ Young said in his acceptance speech. The Alabama quarterback was the clear choice, but things got murkier when it came to filling out the rest of this voter’s Heisman ballotĪlabama is making a habit out of winning Heisman Trophies.īryce Young was the runaway winner of the Heisman Trophy with Saturday’s announcement, the sophomore quarterback making it two straight Crimson Tide wins for college football’s highest honor – and four in all since 2009 - as he beat out Michigan’s Aidan Hutchinson by 1,357 points.
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