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SEC News: Smith’s Heisman win hammers home banner ‘Bama year

SEC News [Staff Photo/Gary Cosby Jr.]

Things couldn’t have gone better for Alabama in 2020 after DeVonta Smith won the Heisman as a representative of both the Tide and the SEC.

It just means more when a fellow SEC ballplayer wins the most prestigious award in college sports: the Heisman Trophy.

For Auburn fans, it means more heartbreak–if you take the Roll Tide-War Eagle rivalry personally.

DeVonta Smith was painfully deserving of the Heisman, which he won Tuesday night in history-making fashion:

DeVonta Smith is the first receiver to win the Heisman in nearly 30 years.