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WATCH: Joe Burrow’s Heisman speech helps drive more than $100K in donations to food bank

Joe Burrow received the highest percentage of first-place votes and recorded the largest margin of victory in the award’s history.

Joe Burrow set records with his 2019 Heisman Trophy win over the weekend. The Louisiana State University quarterback received the highest percentage of first-place votes and recorded the largest margin of victory in the award’s history.

The Tigers quarterback turned the opportunity into a way to significantly impact the southeast Ohio community that he grew up in, too. Burrow’s award acceptance speech led to more than $100,000 being donated to the Athens County Food Pantry in Athens, Ohio.

“It’s a very, very impoverished area,” Burrow said in his Heisman Trophy acceptance speech Saturday night. “The poverty rate is almost two times the national average.

“There are so many people there that don’t have a lot, and I’m up here for all those kids in Athens and Athens County that go home to not a lot of food on the table, hungry after school. You guys can be up here, too.”

An Athens resident launched a Facebook fundraiser Sunday after Burrow’s speech made the nation aware of the problems in the area. More than 3,100 people donated a combined amount of more than $108,000 as of Monday morning.

According to The Athens County Food Pantry website, the pantry served 5,702 individuals in 2018, about a third of them children.

Entering the College Football Playoff, Burrow has completed 342 of 439 pass attempts for a 77.9% completion rate. The 23-year-old has 4,715 passing yards this season with 48 touchdowns and 6 interceptions. He is the first LSU athlete to win the Heisman since running back Billy Cannon won the award in 1959.

Burrow’s Heisman speech helps drive more than $100,000 in donations to southeast Ohio food bank

Joe Burrow received the highest percentage of first-place votes and recorded the largest margin of victory in the award’s history.

Joe Burrow received the highest percentage of first-place votes and recorded the largest margin of victory in the award’s history.

Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields releases video congratulating Joe Burrow on winning Heisman

Former Ohio State quarterback Joe Burrow has won the Heisman. Current OSU quarterback Justin Fields took time to publicly congratulate him.

It only took a Big Ten player transferring to an SEC school, and an SEC player transferring to a Big Ten school to bring the North and South together again. Well, maybe just the SEC and Big Ten, but you catch my drift.

Perhaps no conferences like to fight for football supremacy more than the Big Ten and SEC. There are barbs in the media, stereotypes that have gone wild, and my SEC dad can beat up your Big Ten dad type of hot takes almost yearly that are a little over the top. Some might even say uneducated and a bit ridiculous.

But don’t tell that to Joe Burrow and Justin Fields. Both have been very gracious to each other through this whole Heisman parade, and just last night, after Burrow won the Heisman as expected, Fields took the time to congratulate him publicly.

You can watch the below shared to the official Twitter feed of Ohio State Football.

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Maybe there’s hope for the country yet. Maybe these two can now work on the Democrats and Republicans. Now go win that Heisman in 2020.

Ohio State ends up with three of the top six in Heisman voting

When all the votes were tallied, Ohio State football had three of the top six players in the official Heisman voting.

By now you know that Joe Burrow won the 2019 Heisman Trophy in a landslide. You also know that Justin Fields and Chase Young were also somewhere in the top four because they were a part of the four invited to New York for the ceremony as finalists.

What we didn’t know is how close the votes were, and just where running back J.K. Dobbins landed in all the brouhaha across the country when the votes were tabulated.

Until now.

Many have shared the vote tallys and we can now see that the Buckeyes had three of the top six vote getters when it came to the official Heisman ballot counting for 2019. Thanks to Austin Ward of Lettermen Row for sharing the official results below.

Burrow won easily, and clustered together fairly closely were Jalen Hurts of Oklahoma in 2nd place, Justin Fields in 3rd place, then Chase Young in 4th overall. But scroll down two more and you see Wisconsin running back Jonathan Taylor, followed by Dobbins in 6th place.

That makes three of the top six in Heisman voting when all is said and done that are Ohio State players. And yeah, if you want to add in Joe Burrow who got his baseline development from Ryan Day at OSU and is technically a gradate of The Ohio State University, that’s not a bad day at all for the program.

Now, let’s focus on this whole College Playoff thing shall we?