NEW YORK — C.J. Stroud fell short of taking college football’s most preeminent player of the year award. Alabama quarterback Bryce Young won the Heisman Trophy in a landslide on Saturday night. Young received 684 of 875 first-place votes and was named on 90% of all ballots, the seventh-highest percentage in the award’s history. He swept all six regions, totaling 2,311 points. Michigan defensive end Aidan Hutchinson and Pittsburgh quarterback Kenny Pickett finished second and third with 954 and 631 points, respectively. Heisman Trophy finalists, from left, Michigan defensive end Aidan Hutchinson, Pitt quarterback Kenny Pickett, Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud and Alabama quarterback Bryce Young Stroud, the redshirt freshman quarterback for Ohio State who put up prolific passing numbers in his debut season as a starter, ended in fourth place in the final voting with 399. The four of them made up the finalists who were in attendance at…
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