Travis Hunter Wins Heisman in Historically Close Race

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00:00Colorado's two-way superstar Travis Hunter makes history, winning the Heisman

00:08Trophy as well. He was minus 9,000 entering this weekend. He finishes in

00:13front of Boise's Ashton Gente. It was the closest margin in the Heisman Trophy

00:20race since 2009, which goes to show how historic it was. Both were worthy

00:27recipients. Travis Hunter wins the Heisman Trophy, deservedly so. Yeah, both

00:34have bright futures, no doubt about it, and it was a razor-thin margin compared

00:37to most people looking at it. Look, Gente was equally as good, but we talked

00:41about it way back then when that viral tweet went out with Boise. It wasn't

00:45really a shot against the coach, more of sarcasm, where it's like, you should be

00:48fired, but also understand what the game would be, because I'm gonna tell you this

00:52right now, and I know you'll never find out because the Heisman Trophy's already

00:55been voted for, and Travis Hunter got it, but I'm telling you, if we had 26

01:00carries for close to 500 yards and six touchdowns at a Gente in that Utah State

01:05game, he'd be the Heisman Trophy winner today, because he would have had such

01:08headwinds from that performance where, when you look back, his season was, he ran

01:12for 2,500 yards. Make it, let's just say, 2,800 yards. Make it 33 touchdowns here.

01:17Make it numbers that nobody's ever seen before, and people would understand who

01:21this kid was. Now, you might say, like, oh, that's great. He had 14 yards per carry

01:24in that game, but I look at those games understanding the task, and if you flip

01:28it over to Colorado, how many times did you watch Colorado make sure that those

01:32targets were available for Travis Hunter to score touchdowns because of how

01:36important that would be on the end byline? It's like, okay, great DB, but

01:40what did he do on offense? Ooh, touchdown here, touchdown there. That matters at

01:44that point. I just wish Gente's coach let him let it rip against Utah State, and he

01:48would have been the Heisman Trophy winner.

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