Colorado’s Travis Hunter was the Heisman Trophy favourite going into Saturday evening’s trophy presentation, and he ended up including to his spectacular trophy assortment for the season by successful the award.
It was not fairly a runaway victory for him.
Hunter collected 552 first-place votes and a couple of,231 factors within the voting, narrowly edging out Boise State working again Ashton Jeanty‘s 2,017 whole factors.
Jeanty additionally had 309 first-place votes.
That was not solely a small margin of victory for Hunter, it was the closest Heisman Trophy vote in 15 years when Alabama working again Mark Ingram narrowly beat Stanford’s Toby Gerhart.
Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel got here in third on this 12 months’s voting with 24 first-place votes and 516 whole factors.
Miami’s Cam Ward got here in fourth with six first-place votes and 229 whole factors.
Arizona State working again Cam Skattebo, who was not invited to the trophy presentation ceremony in New York Metropolis, got here in fifth place with three first-place votes and 170 whole factors.
Jeanty was the one participant that figured to be the largest competitors for Hunter given his completely huge dashing numbers. He completed the common season with 2,497 yards on 344 carries with 29 dashing touchdowns. He additionally added one other 116 yards on 20 catches with a receiving landing.
He enters the playoffs simply 131 yards away from Barry Sanders’ single-season dashing document. Jeanty can have a minimum of another recreation to beat it, and doubtlessly extra if Boise State retains successful within the School Soccer Playoff.
Boise State has a bye into the quarterfinals and can play the winner of the Penn State-SMU recreation in two weeks. Colorado will play BYU within the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, Texas, on Dec. 28. Hunter has not but introduced if he’ll play in that recreation.