NEW YORK — After Athens native and former Buckeye Joe Burrow won the Heisman Trophy Saturday night, the 2020 Heisman race appears to start with a couple of clear front-runners in current Buckeye quarterback Justin Fields and fellow Georgian Trevor Lawrence of Clemson.
As he did in several games this season, Burrow turned the Heisman voting into a rout.
The LSU quarterback has won the most prestigious award in college football after throwing for 4,715 yards and an SEC-record 48 touchdowns for the top-ranked Tigers. Burrow received 2,608 points and 841 first-place votes, a record 90.7 percent of all the first-place votes available. He’s the first LSU player to win the Heisman Trophy since Billy Cannon in 1959.
Burrow did it after failing to receive significant playing time in three seasons at Ohio State. He transferred to LSU at the end of the 2017 season and threw for over 7,600 yards and 64 TDs as a Tiger.
Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts was second with 762 points. Fields was third and Buckeye defensive end Chase Young was fourth.