Stanford has sent many players to New York for the Heisman Trophy ceremony. In the last eight years, they’ve all come up just short. There was Toby Gerhart in 2009, Andrew Luck in 2010 and 2011, and Christian McCaffrey in 2015, all three finished second in the voting. Gerhart and McCaffrey finished behind Alabama running […]
College football season is upon us and as such, it’s time for the Heisman voters to start thinking about whose name they will put on their ballots come December.
In the past, certain Heisman candidates who may have played for less televised schools could have easily been forgotten had ESPN decided not to make known their 420 passing yard, 8 TD performance against the University of Maryland University College (it exists, I kid you not…http://www.umuc.edu/). Fortunately for future small school, small conference stars, Matt Barkley is blazing a trail that will surely catch on and become vital ammo in the arsenal of all potential Heisman candidates.
