Travis Hunter Wins Heisman Trophy, Beating Ashton Jeanty

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00:00Saturday night in New York, Travis Hunter won the Heisman Trophy, the first two-way

00:08player to win it since Charles Woodson in 97 and the smallest margin of victory since

00:13Mark Ingram won it in 2009.

00:17He barely beat Gente from Boise State, Hunter got 552 first place votes and 2,231 total

00:26points.

00:27He got 309 first place votes, 517 second, and 2,017.

00:33So bottom line, 2,031 to 17.

00:38He got it done.

00:39The two-way player from Boulder wins the Heisman.

00:42Jenny said he thinks he should have walked away with the trophy, but he'll have to keep

00:46working hard to prove people wrong.

00:48132 yards from breaking Barry Sanders' single-season college record.

00:53Of course, Dion denies that Sanders would refuse to play for the Browns or Giants if

00:57they drafted him.

00:59Hunter and Jenny also highlight the AP All-American team joined by players like Cam Ward and Skadaboo

01:06from Arizona State.

01:08So let's go back to the decision on Saturday night to give Hunter the Heisman Trophy.

01:13Cam, how do you feel about it?

01:16I feel he's the most deserving player, and I really like Gente.

01:20Walked away with it.

01:21This guy's a two-way player.

01:22Like, what are we talking about here?

01:24Hunter's amazing.

01:25And the thing is, when you're a bad football team in the NFL, you can draft a guy that

01:28can do so many little things and change your fate.

01:30Like, Hunter's the type of guy that will do that.

01:32Scott, I don't know what's going to happen.

01:34We talk about Charles Woodson, but I know it doesn't happen in the NFL, but it'd be

01:38amazing to see a two-way player.

01:39I think he should have ran away with it.

01:40I don't think the vote should have been that close.

01:42I like Ashton Gente a lot, Boise State, nice season, amazing running back, but Hunter's

01:46the real deal.

01:47I'm sorry.

01:48He's definitely the favorite, and deservedly so.

01:52So what's your feeling about the trophy itself?

01:57I remember a time in my life that it really mattered, and I just don't feel that anyone

02:04gives a rat's ass about the Heisman Trophy.

02:07I know they try to cram it down our throats, and we do it here on SportsGrid as well, every

02:12week updating the odds for the Heisman Trophy and all the other nonsense that it is.

02:17I don't think anyone cares about it anymore, except the guy that wins it is, I guess, set

02:24for life.

02:25You win the Heisman Trophy, you're remembered forever, you're in the club, and it is important,

02:31I think, to the guy that wins it, for sure.

02:33But do you really think that fans, and really, frankly, the media, cares about the Heisman

02:39Trophy anymore?

02:40That's an excellent point you bring up, Scott.

02:42I'm actually thinking in the past it kind of mattered more, and it was kind of different.

02:45I don't know what it is now.

02:46I guess we can bet on it, but other than that, you're right.

02:49Sometimes the best player, it's a very hard award to negotiate, because it's one player

02:54on a team, but I'm with you.

02:56Other than gambling on this stuff, I don't think it's really lost its luster.

02:59I remember when we were younger, we used to care about it more.

03:02I don't know what's changed, Scott, maybe you have an answer, but I feel you, because

03:05I don't think it's the same.

03:06When's the last time you watched it?

03:11I haven't watched it in 10 years.

03:13I watch it, but when I was younger, I watched it all the time.

03:17If I got money on a game or whatever, it was back and forth, back and forth, back and forth,

03:20and I always had money on a game.

03:21You're right, it used to be religious for me.

03:24I'm not watching that over a game that I'm betting money on on a Saturday night.

03:29I can guarantee you that.

03:31I'm watching sports.

03:33I'm not watching award shows.

03:35I don't listen to any of them, the NHL awards, the NFL awards, baseball awards.

03:41How bad is baseball now?

03:43They announced their awards in the middle of winter.

03:46I mean, the season ends the first week of November, basically, and they don't announce

03:51the baseball winners until December.

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