{"id":28691,"date":"2020-03-04T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/?p=28691"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:12:54","slug":"preseason-heisman-trophy-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2020\/03\/04\/preseason-heisman-trophy-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Preseason Heisman Trophy Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Preseason Heisman Trophy Favorites<\/h2>\n<p>LSU Tigers quarterback <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/joe-burrow-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Burrow<\/a><\/strong> capped off an amazing 2019 season with the Heisman Trophy. Burrow also led the Tigers to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordoncollegefootball.com\/2020\/01\/14\/lsu-takes-the-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Championship<\/a> and is likely to be the NFL\u2019s No. 1 draft pick in 2020. Burrow came out of nowhere to land the Heisman Trophy after starting the season well outside the list of favorites. College football fans are debating whether LSU can repeat as National Champions or if another team will lift the trophy. Fans can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/silentbet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>https:\/\/silentbet.com\/<\/strong><\/a> ahead of the new college football season to get a bet bonus to wager on the team they believe will win the college football National Championship this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 Heisman Trophy winner may not be a long-shot like Burrow was last season. Regardless of who it is, a shortlist of top candidates has already been drawn up. If any outsider is going take on the most prestigious award in college sports, then they will have to outdo these gentlemen.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=justin-fields-2,justin-fields-1&amp;search=Justin+Fields&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justin Fields<\/a>, QB, Ohio State<\/h3>\n<p>The Ohio State Buckeyes have produced seven Heisman Trophy winners and quarterback <strong>Justin Fields<\/strong> could be No. 8 on the Buckeyes\u2019 Heisman winner list. Fields had an excellent 2019 and if it hadn\u2019t been for Burrow\u2019s unbelievable numbers, would have most likely won the trophy. The quarterback completed 67.2% of his passes and threw for 3,272 yards and 41 touchdowns. Fields was only picked off three times.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/trevor-lawrence-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trevor Lawrence<\/a>, QB, Clemson<\/h3>\n<p>Clemson Tigers quarterback <strong>Trevor Lawrence<\/strong> had a lot of haters last season. If it wasn\u2019t memes mocking his hair and headband, it was college football pundits criticizing his interceptions total. Lawrence tossed eight interceptions in his first seven games of the season. It doesn\u2019t sound as bad as it was made out to be, especially with Lawrence totaling 36 touchdowns during the season. He also threw for 3,665 yards. Lawrence added nine running touchdowns. If he can be more consistent from the start, the Heisman Trophy could be his.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/chuba-hubbard-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chuba Hubbard<\/a>, RB, Oklahoma State<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Chuba Hubbard<\/strong> looked like a lock to join the NFL Draft 2020, but shocked college football followers \u2013 and pleased Oklahoma State fans \u2013 by remaining in Stillwater for another year. The running back led college football with 2,094 rushing yards in 2019. He tallied 21 touchdowns on the ground which was the third-most in the country. The big knock against Hubbard winning the Heisman Trophy is Oklahoma State. The team isn\u2019t likely to fight for a National Championship.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/ian-book-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Book<\/a>, QB, Notre Dame<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Ian Book<\/strong> had a very good season at Notre Dame in 2019. He threw for 3,034 yards and 34 touchdowns against six interceptions. His biggest issue was a weak schedule with Notre Dame playing New Mexico and Bowling Green. Had Book produced his numbers with tougher teams on Notre Dame\u2019s schedule in the first half of the season, he may have challenged Burrow for the Heisman.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/travis-etienne-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travis Etienne<\/a>, RB, Clemson<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Travis Etienne<\/strong> is another potential Heisman Trophy winner that decided to return for another season rather than go into the NFL Draft 2020. His decision to stay won\u2019t only help his candidacy for the award, but it will make Clemson a strong favorite to win the National Championship. Etienne scampered for 1,614 yards and 19 touchdowns as a junior. He added 432 receiving yards and four touchdowns on just 37 receptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preseason Heisman Trophy Favorites LSU Tigers quarterback Joe Burrow capped off an amazing 2019 season with the Heisman Trophy. Burrow also led the Tigers to the National Championship and is likely to be the NFL\u2019s No. 1 draft pick in 2020. Burrow came out of nowhere to land the Heisman Trophy after starting the season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1438,"featured_media":17740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1479,35584],"tags":[6132,4793,36,3355,607,3502,86,259,73,234,2302,3450],"class_list":["post-28691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-editorials","category-lsu-tigers","tag-2020-heisman-trophy","tag-chuba-hubbard","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-ian-book","tag-joe-burrow","tag-justin-fields","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-oklahoma-state-cowboys","tag-travis-etienne","tag-trevor-lawrence"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78547,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28691\/revisions\/78547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}