NEW YORK (AP) — Southern California quarterback Caleb Williams, the catalyst for the Trojans’ turnaround season, gained the Heisman Trophy on Saturday evening to make USC the primary college to take house school soccer’s most prestigious participant of the 12 months award eight instances.
Williams obtained 544 first-place votes and a couple of,031 factors to simply outpoint TCU quarterback Max Duggan (1,420).
Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud was third within the voting after coming in fourth final 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 in need of the Pac-12 championship and a spot within the playoff, but it surely was nonetheless a rebirth for a university soccer blue blood that has had solely brief spurts of success during the last decade.
The final time USC had a Heisman winner was 2005, when working again Reggie Bush was the second of consecutive Trojans gamers to win the award. Matt Leinart gained the Heisman in 2004 on the way in which to a nationwide championship.
Bush’s Heisman win, the Trojans’ seventh, was later vacated for NCAA violations that started the descent of USC.
Notre Dame, Ohio State and Oklahoma every have seven Heisman victories.
