Colorado receiver/cornerback/mistaken Heisman poser/presumed Heisman winner Travis Hunter has completed perfection in The Athletic’s Heisman Trophy straw ballot.
Of the 27 writers and editors who voted this day, all 27 voted Hunter first, giving him the utmost imaginable 81 issues. Two first-place votes for Ashton Jeanty and one for Cam Ward within the earlier ballot switched this day to Hunter, who wrapped up his Colorado season with 3 landing catches, an interception and two cross break-ups in a 52-0 rout of Oklahoma Condition.
Hunter “clinched the Heisman,” professor Deion Sanders mentioned later on, and occasion that might not be formally true, Hunter couldn’t have long past out with a more potent endmost commentary — alternative than the truth that his Heisman pose nonetheless wishes paintings to raised emulate the trophy itself. In all seriousness, it will have helped him with naysayers interested in staff luck for the Buffaloes to get the support vital to manufacture the Weighty 12 identify sport. They didn’t.
And the truth that Jeanty will get to play games Friday for Disagree. 11 Boise Condition (11-1) towards Disagree. 22 UNLV (10-2) within the Mountain West identify sport for a countrywide Fox target audience a minimum of provides him the general commitment. It is going to must be the operating again efficiency similar of “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” Like, how about 341 yards to achieve 2,629 at the season and smash up Barry Sanders’ single-season NCAA speeding document? Would that do it?
Perhaps? Jeanty misplaced garden within the straw ballot this day upcoming going for 226 yards and a landing in a win over Oregon Condition so … the bar is prime. The pathway to switch hearts and minds is slim. The community’s eminent rusher were given 25 second-place votes and two third-place votes for a complete of fifty issues.
The Athletic follows the similar balloting protocol as that of the Heisman: 3 issues for a first-place vote, two issues for a second-place vote, one level for a third-place vote.
| Participant | Staff | Pos | 1st | second | third | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Travis Hunter | WR/DB | 27 | 0 | 0 | 81 | |
Ashton Jeanty | RB | 0 | 25 | 2 | 52 | |
Tyler Warren | TE | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | |
Dillon Gabriel | QB | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | |
Cam Ward | QB | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | |
Cam Skattebo | RB | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | |
Kaleb Johnson | RB | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
LaNorris Dealers | QB | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
At least, Jeanty is aware of he’s taking to Unused York and must be a lock to return in moment by way of a secure margin. There’s incorrect noticeable 1/3 position this presen, which is able to manufacture the balloting and the selection of applicants invited to Unused York attention-grabbing.
Miami quarterback Cam Ward fell from 15 issues to 6 within the ballot upcoming Saturday’s loss at Syracuse, shedding him to 5th position in the back of Penn Condition tight finish Tyler Warren (8 issues) and Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel (seven issues).
That still way incorrect ACC identify sport platform for Ward occasion Warren and Gabriel will face each and every alternative for the Weighty Ten championship in Indianapolis, because of Ohio Condition’s stunning loss to Michigan to let the Nittany Lions sneak within the again door.
The ballot’s emerging Disagree. 6 vote-getter, Arizona Condition operating again Cam Skattebo (5 issues), additionally will get a chance to manufacture his case when the sudden Solar Devils tackle Iowa Condition for the Weighty 12 identify.
Iowa’s Kaleb Johnson (two issues) is the 1/3 operating again a number of the 8 vote-getters. That’s the similar because the selection of quarterbacks — and there’s a brandnew quarterback, South Carolina’s LaNorris Dealers, choosing up a third-place vote.
Dealers won’t manufacture it to Unused York this presen. However that’s a touch of items to return in 2025 when he must be prime at the listing of preseason hopefuls for the award.
(Photograph of Ashton Jeanty: Brian Losness / Imagn Photographs)
