NEW YORK (AP) — Southern California quarterback Caleb Williams, the catalyst for the Trojans’ turnaround season, gained the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night time to make USC the primary college to take house school soccer’s maximum prestigious participant of the yr award 8 instances.
Williams gained 544 first-place votes and a pair of,031 issues to simply outpoint TCU quarterback Max Duggan (1,420).
Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud was once 0.33 within the balloting after coming in fourth closing season. Georgia quarterback Stetson completed fourth. The highest-ranked Bulldogs will face Stroud and the fourth-ranked Buckeyes within the Faculty Soccer Playoff on Dec. 31.
Duggan and the third-ranked Horned Frogs will play No. 2 Michigan within the different CFP semifinal on New 12 months’s Eve.
Williams and No. 8 USC fell wanting the Pac-12 championship and a place within the playoff, but it surely was once nonetheless a rebirth for a faculty soccer blue blood that has had simplest quick spurts of good fortune during the last decade.
The closing time USC had a Heisman winner was once 2005, when working again Reggie Bush was once the second one of consecutive Trojans avid gamers to win the award. Matt Leinart gained the Heisman in 2004 on tips on how to a countrywide championship.
Bush’s Heisman win, the Trojans’ 7th, was once later vacated for NCAA violations that started the descent of USC.
Notre Dame, Ohio State and Oklahoma every have seven Heisman victories.
