The Heisman celebrates outstanding performance which best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity and has an illustrious series of winners throughout its past such as Bo Jackson ...

Auburn running back Bo Jackson topped Long by 45 points to win the closest vote in the first 73 years of Heisman Trophy balloting. McCoy fell short by 122 points to Bradford, with whom he shared ...

Winners: 1971 Pat Sullivan, 1985 Bo Jackson, 2010 Cam Newton The namesake of the trophy awarded to the best FBS player each season belongs to John Heisman, former coach of the Auburn Tigers.

Auburn’s Bo Jackson edged out Iowa’s Chuck Long by just 45 points, the closest margin in Heisman history until 2009. Jackson’s season was defined by resilience — he played through multiple ...

Q. Who are some notable Heisman Trophy finalists over the years? - + A. Notable finalists include Herschel Walker, Doug Flutie, Bo Jackson, Tim Brown, Barry Sanders, Desmond Howard, Eddie George ...

White ultimately came in fourth in voting, losing out to one of the greatest Heisman-winning running backs of all time, former Auburn running back Bo Jackson. After a disappointing 1986 season ...

but Davis's play at Syracuse was so impressive that he overcame the racism of the Heisman selection process and won the award. Jackson may have been the greatest athlete of the modern era.

Hunter's Heisman victory puts him alongside a long ... He ran for 200-plus yards in four games that season, joining Bo Jackson and Herschel Walker as the only players to do so in SEC history.