NEW YORK — Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray won the 84th Heisman Trophy on Saturday night and it wasn’t even close, contrary to the overarching pre-ceremony story line.
Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was the frontrunner all season. But Murray ran away with college football’s most coveted prize, earning 517 first-place votes (2,167 total points) to Tagovailoa’s 299 (1,871).
Now the question has to be asked: Would Tagovailoa have won if he hadn’t gotten hurt in the SEC championship game?
Would Texas have beat Alabama to win the 2009 national championship if Colt McCoy didn’t get hurt?