I don’t have an official Heisman Trophy ballot.
Yet.
It’s coming one day my friends, it is. But in the meantime the straw-poll along with the rest of the editors here at the USA TODAY Sports College Wire sites is the closest thing I’ve got. The long story short is that each week we’ll submit who would be on our Heisman Trophy ballot if the season ended that day.
The preseason voting is done and let me just say that I’m a bit disappointed in my colleagues here at the College Wires.
Why?
I was the only one of them that voted the clear-cut best player in college football as my Heisman Trophy winner ahead of the season. The voting went as follows in the top three:
- C.J. Stroud – quarterback, Ohio State
- Bryce Young – quarterback, Alabama
- Caleb Williams – quarterback, USC
So how did mine look? Here were my three names: