Posted on 12/11/2021 6:14:53 PM PST by blam
Alabama has another Heisman Trophy winner.
Crimson Tide QB Bryce Young was unsurprisingly named the 2021 Heisman winner on Saturday. Young entered the ceremony as a massive favorite after his performance in the SEC championship game. He was a finalist for the award along with Pitt QB Kenny Pickett, Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud and Michigan DL Aidan Hutchinson.
Hutchinson finished second ahead of Pickett and Stroud. Young got 684 first-place votes had more than eight times as many votes for the top spot than Hutchinson.
Young is 314-of-462 passing for 4,322 yards and 43 TDs with just four interceptions through 12 games this season. Alabama is the top seed in the College Football Playoff and plays Cincinnati on New Year’s Eve in the Cotton Bowl.
Young — the first Alabama QB to win the Heisman Trophy — was great in the SEC title game as he threw for 421 yards and three touchdowns in Alabama’s 41-24 win over Georgia. That win knocked the Bulldogs from the unbeaten ranks and cemented Alabama’s spot in the playoff.
His SEC title game performance came a week after Young rebounded from a poor performance against Auburn to lead Alabama to a comeback victory. Alabama drove 97 yards for a game-tying touchdown in the final minutes of regulation on the way to a 24-22 win over Auburn in four overtimes. Young and Alabama’s offense had been out of sync all afternoon but picked apart Auburn’s defense on the final drive of the fourth quarter to get the game to overtime.
Young set the Alabama single-game passing record on Nov. 20 with 559 yards and five touchdowns against Arkansas. That was his second consecutive game with five touchdown passes after he was 21-of-23 for 270 yards in an easy day’s work
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Indeed. Not only does the award usually go to players at glamour positions, but the winners usually play for national powerhouses in major conferences and get a lot of TV exposure as well. If you play for a lesser conference such as Cornell's running back Ed Marinaro, the 1971 runner-up, or are an offensive lineman, such as Ohio State's John Hicks, who lost out to his team mate, a running back, in 1973, you have a tough row to hoe.
The Alabama was all they got;
(Roll, Alabama, roll!)
Captain Semmes escaped on a British yacht.
(Oh, roll, Alabama, roll!)
“WLM burning”
WLM????
I read that to mean White Lives Matter
White Lives Matter 😆😆😆
Yeah, we crackers don't do that burning thing.
I don’t see him as the best player in the nation this year. He is a good College player in a great program. He will not be a top 5 Pro QB at the next level. He just doesn’t stand out to me. Frankly though, I haven’t had my socks knocked off by anyone but a RB, and I can’t remember the team he plays for. The QB for Ohio State though, is better than Bryce.
And the opioid of the masses goes merrily along.
I hope I'm wrong but I don't think Michigan can hold it.
I think these crackers in east lansing disagree, lol!
The Georgia v Michigan game will be EPIC. Someone send Harbaugh a cryin’ towel, please.
100% Agreed.
The momentum tends to gets lost. That being said. I think Mich. is hitting their stride. As long as Harbaugh stays out of the way of his assistant coaches, and lets them do their jobs. :) Best of Luck to the Wolverines.
True. The list of Heisman winners who were busts in the NFL is rather long.
No it isn't, but I think Georgia's performance against Alabama said a lot about them.
It's pretty much always been that way. Season ends in November and the Bowl's used to all be around New Years.
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