June 23, 2025
By Brad Crawford, CBS Sports: By now, we’ll assume you’re aware of college football’s Heisman Trophy frontrunners ahead of the 2025 season. That group is dominated by quarterbacks who are the faces of their respective programs along with a wide receiver coming off one of the most memorable freshman seasons in history for the defending national champions.
But it’s never fun betting the favorites, is it?
Last season, Travis Hunter became the third consecutive Heisman winner whose team failed to reach the College Football Playoff, continuing the recent trend of stars outside of the national title picture drawing consideration. After Lamar Jackson won the award in 2016 for a nine-win Louisville squad, five consecutive Heisman winners led their respective teams to the playoff, including two eventual national champions (Joe Burrow, 2019; DeVonta Smith, 2020).
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