NEW YORK — Baseball might still be Kyler Murray’s future, but Saturday night the Oklahoma quarterback took home college football’s most famous award. Murray led the Sooners to their fourth consecutive Big 12 championship, a third College Football Playoff in five years, and is now the program’s seventh Heisman Trophy winner.
Murray collected 517 first-place votes and 2,167 points in the voting totals in the 84th annual Heisman ceremony. It was one of the closest races in history, with Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa making a strong push with 1,871 points (299 first-place votes) and Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins coming in third place with 783 points (46 first-place votes).