As we continue honoring the late Johnny Majors, one thing that should not be lost on fans is that he was the first player to expose one clear issue: The Heisman Trophy bias against Tennessee football. Majors was the original Peyton Manning, and both have gone down in history as Vols robbed of the award.
If you really look at reasoning, voters had to completely change their standards to make sure both of them lost out on it. This is the critical point about why so many Vols fans see a bias. When Majors was the runner-up to Paul Hornung in 1956, it was the only time in history a player on a losing team won the award.