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 backs Mark Ingram and Derrick Henry, respectively. Luck lost to scintillating quarterbacks in Cam Newton and Robert Griffin III.
This year Stanford has another player in the running for the Heisman — Bryce Love, who trails only Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield in the latest iteration of ESPN’s Heisman Watch.