Each month, The Franchise’s own Heisman voters, Dylan Buckingham and Ryan Chapman, will give their thoughts on the Heisman race and who’s in the hunt. Presented by Bob Moore Nissan. At Bob Moore Nissan in Norman! We’re calling all the right plays with deals you cannot pass up!
Who Can Help Their Heisman Case the Most in November?
As the calendar turns to November, it usually feels like we have a good grasp on the Heisman Trophy picture.
Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty and Colorado do-everything man Travis Hunter join the usual host of quarterbacks as front-runners for college football’s most prestigious award ahead of the final month of the season. November is when the celebration of the sport’s top players turns into splitting hairs to vote for one player. With plenty of big games still left, each candidate will be able to make their closing arguments from now until conference championship weekend. Jeanty will have the spotlight in a pair of Friday contests that will be able to draw more eyeballs than if Boise State is buried amongst the entire slate of games on a Saturday. This week, the Broncos will host San Diego State on Friday night, and plenty of voters and fans alike will take in Boise State’s Black Friday battle with Oregon State.
For Hunter, his Colorado team is still in the hunt to make it to the Big 12 Championship Game in Arlington, TX. He’ll have to mow through Texas Tech, Utah, Kansas and a Black Friday meeting with Oklahoma State to keep pace atop the conference, but Hunter and Deion Sanders’ Buffaloes continue to be must-see TV into November.
The host of quarterbacks hoping to be the most recent signal callers to win the Heisman Trophy will all have big spots to state their car as well. Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel travels to Ann Arbor this weekend and the Ducks still have the inside track to earn a bye week in the College Football Playoff by winning the Big Ten Championship Game. Indiana’s dark horse candidate, quarterback Kurtis Rourke, has contests against Michigan and Ohio State left on the schedule if he can return the lineup despite his thumb injury. Ole Miss gunslinger Jaxson Dart will have the eyes of the college football world on him when the Rebels host Georgia on Nov. 9, and Miami’s Cam Ward looks destined for a meeting with Clemson in the ACC Championship Game.
Everything is still to play for in November as 2024’s wide-open Heisman race presses on.
