After Five Near Misses, Is This the Year a Stanford Player Wins the Heisman?

Bryce Love is the preseason favorite to win the coveted trophy. Fingers crossed.

Photo: Bob Drebin/isiphotos.com

Excuse us if we’re a tad shy about uttering the H-word and “Stanford” in the same breath. Five second-place finishes in nine years will do that.

But the bookmakers in Vegas have no such superstitions, installing senior Bryce Love — last year’s runner-up — as the odds-on favorite to claim the, um, famous bronze statue this December.

Of course, there’s a long, bruising season to play and a raft of blue-chip competitors to outrun before then. But just a glance at the running back’s numbers explains why Stanford’s “one-man first down” might be the one to finally join Jim Plunkett, ’71, to date the only Stanford winner of the — OK, we’ll say it — Heisman.

Source: Stanford Athletics; Photo: David Bernal/isiphotos.com

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