NEW YORK – Born into a family of Cornhuskers and raised in the Buckeye state, Joe Burrow left his Nebraska and Ohio roots behind and became a Heisman Trophy winner for a Louisiana program.
The LSU senior quarterback won the Heisman on Saturday night in a record-breaking landslide, becoming the first Tiger in 60 years to bring college football’s most prestigious individual award back to Baton Rouge.
Burrow received 2,608 points and 841 first-place votes, a record 90.7% of all the first-place votes available. Burrow also set a record for percentage of points available received with 93.8, breaking the mark of 91.6% set by Troy Smith of Ohio State in 2006. Burrow was named on 95.5% of all ballots, breaking the record of 95.2% set by Oregon’s Marcus Mariota in 2014.
Burrow’s margin of victory of 1,846 broke the record of 1,750 set by O.J. Simpson for Southern California in 1968.
Oklahoma quarterback Jalen Hurts was second with 762 points, Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields was third and Buckeyes defensive end Chase Young was fourth.