How the Heisman Trophy Lost its Luster + F1 Season Finale

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🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The Heisman Trophy is college football’s most prestigious individual award. Its list of winners are a who's who of the most legendary names in the sport’s history: Doak Walker. Roger Staubach. Bo Jackson. Barry Sanders. Charles Woodson. For years, the annual Heisman race debate was the center of the college football season, a topic that drew almost as much attention as rankings and bowl appearances. But in recent years, as the College Football Playoff has become the center of all conversation in the sport, the Heisman’s status seems to have dimmed somewhat. And perhaps no season has seen less anticipation surrounding the trophy than this one. So, with the Heisman ceremony tomorrow night, Ryan McGee answers every question we have about college football’s most famous trophy, and how relevant the award is today. Then, hear why Ryan describes this Sunday’s Formula One grand finale in Abu Dhabi as “the greatest driver versus driver showdown in the history of the sport,” where Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen are set to race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	With a great performance by your quarterback today, would you say Bryce Young kind of with the voting on Monday,
0:10.4	locked up the Heism? What do you think about that so far?
0:12.8	He should win the Hysman.
0:14.7	It's just like if you watch the game, if you've been watching the whole season,
0:18.3	ain't nobody else coming close to him. He should win it.
0:20.8	The voters can see that, everybody can see that. Bryce should be Heisman this year.
0:26.0	When Alabama's all-world linebacker Will Anderson took to the podium last week to praise his quarterback, Bryce Young,
0:32.9	he was doing something that you don't see nearly as often these days.
0:39.1	Campaigning for Heisman Trophy votes. And it's not just the campaigning that's getting stiff-armed. It's arguably the trophy
0:45.9	itself. So today, with the Heisman race culminating tomorrow night in New York, we grapple with how
0:52.9	this iconic trophy has lost some of its
0:55.9	luster. And then we travel across the world to a very different race worth watching. I'm Pablo
1:05.1	Torre. It's Friday, December 10th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:17.2	So Ryan McGee, we always love having you on the show. I just want to check in with you emotionally because you spent your whole year to date basically traveling every weekend
1:22.3	through the SEC. How are you feeling now, man, before bowl season kicks off here?
1:27.7	I'm a little hungover.
1:29.8	You know, I think that's probably the best way to put it.
1:32.4	No, it's funny because this will be the first Saturday I've had off.
1:36.6	I don't know when it's last time I was.
1:37.6	You know, we do Marty McGee on Saturday mornings.
1:39.9	Right.
1:40.2	And then that went in right into college football.
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