On Saturday night in New York City, Joe Burrow will become LSU’s second ever Heisman winner. It’s been 60 long years since Billy Cannon won LSU’s only Heisman award and all it took to bring number two back to Baton Rouge was maybe the greatest season in college football history.
Billy Cannon’s 1959 season has faded, like the grainy clip below, in our collective consciousness. A season where LSU presented a dominant defense led by Cannon, a Sugar Bowl appearance and 9-2-0 record has been compartmentalized down into one play: the punt return on Halloween night to beat Ole Miss.