College football awards aren’t one of the exceptions to the short list of things where being close counts as good enough. Horse shoes and hand grenades, sure. But not the Heisman Trophy. There’s only one winner of college football’s most-coveted honor, and Saturday night it went to LSU quarterback Joe Burrow. Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields finished third behind runner-up Jalen Hurts of Oklahoma, and in front of OSU defensive end Chase Young. Burrow won with the highest percentage of first-place votes (90.7), surpassing Troy Smith of Ohio State (86.7) in 2006. Burrow also bettered Smith for the record of highest percentage of possible votes, getting 93.8%, ahead of Smith’s 91.6% Burrow’s 1,846-point margin of victory over Hurts also set a new Heisman standard, bettering the former mark of 1,750 points by USC’s O.J. Simpson in 1968. OSU’s J.K. Dobbins finished sixth, one spot behind Wisconsin’s Jonathan Taylor, who completed…
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