The Heisman is obviously a useful barometer to determine which college football player had the best season in any given year. But it’s not the best indicator to determine which players had the greatest careers of all-time. Many of the sport’s greats never took home the coveted trophy despite stringing together transcendent college careers. Here are the 10 best players in college football history to never win the Heisman.
10. Steve Young (BYU)
Young finished a distant second to Nebraska RB Mike Rozier in 1983 Heisman voting, though that had more to do with Rozier’s immortal season (2,148 rushing yards, 29 TD, 7.