It’s strange to think that college football is entering its ninth week of the season when the SEC has only played five weeks, the Big Ten started last weekend and the Pac- 12 is still a week away from the start of its season
But hey, it’s 2020, and it’s a weekend that will have Halloween on Saturday with a full moon, a time change and a few days before a presidential election
Despite all the madness this weekend and this year, there are some favorites lists to win the Heisman Trophy in an otherwise bizarre and wacky year
There are different betting odds on this year’s Heisman Trophy winner, and Clemson’s junior quarterback Trevor Lawrence tops most of those lists It’s tough to get a Pac-12 player on the roster when they haven’t yet played a down, and it’s tough to compare the Ohio State quarterback with a game at Lawrence, who has made six games
Anyway, here are the 2020 Heisman Trophy favorites, according to sportsbettingdimecom (Remember, LSU quarterback Joe Burrow was so long in 2019 that his chances of winning the trophy at one point were from 15,000 to 1 – or 15,000)
-132 – Trevor Lawrence, QB, Clemson
290 – Mac Jones, QB, Alabama
404 – Justin Fields, QB, State of Ohio
2500 – Najee Harris, RB, Alabama
2875 – Kyle Trask, QB, Florida
3150 – Joe Milton, QB, Michigan
3575 – Zach WIlson, QB, BYU
3825 – Travis Etienne, RB, Clemson
4000 – Trey Sermon, RB, State of Ohio
4125 – Devonta Smith, WR, Alabama
5000 – Brock Purdy, QB, State of Iowa
6150 – Chuba Hubbard, RB, State of Oklahoma
Others to consider: Shane Buechele (QB, SMU), D’Eriq King (QB, Miami), Stetson Bennett (QB, Georgia), Master Teague (RB, Ohio State), Kellen Mond (QB, Texas A&M) , Sam Ehlinger (QB, Texas), Spencer Rattler (QB, Oklahoma), Sean Clifford (QB, Penn State), Feleipe Franks (QB, Arkansas), Ian Book (QB, Notre Dame), Zamir White (RB, Georgia) , Tanner Morgan (QB, Minnesota), Javian Hawkins (RB, Louisville), Myles Brennan (QB, LSU), Sam Howell (QB, NC), Tylan Wallace (WR, Oklahoma State), Kyle Pitts (TE, Florida )
« Predicting who will win is a difficult exercise, especially during the preseason, » the betting site said. « In 2018 eventual winner Kyler Murray wasn’t even at the start, and he was a 2300 long shooter when he first appeared in late July. Finalist teammate Dwayne Haskins started at 3,500 The 2019 season produced an even more unlikely winner: Joe Burrow was as long as 15,000 in preseason «
Of the 20 Heisman Trophy winners since 2000, only three of them haven’t been quarterbacks With Burrow’s victory in 2019, there were 17 quarterbacks and three running backs to win the trophy so much. coveted of this century
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