I’ll hand it to the Heisman voters. Usually, they pick the right man to walk that aisle at the Downtown Athletic Club and hoist college football’s most coveted honor.
But sometimes, they don’t get it right. In hindsight, there are 10 instances when the voters handed the trophy to the wrong man. Today, we will be looking at three of those instances.
People often speak of Doug Flutie winning the Heisman for one pass. There is certainly merit to that conclusion but Flutie was high on the leaderboard all season long in 1984. Johnny Manziel’s fantastic game against top-ranked Alabama made him a Heisman contender in 2012 and understandably so.