Nine weeks into this season, the Heisman Trophy odds list has many of the archetypes one would probably expect to find in contention for college football’s top honor.

Alabama’s quarterback (Ty Simpson) is the odds-on favorite at +300 at BetMGM while Ohio State’s quarterback (Julian Sayin) and Georgia’s quarterback (Gunner Stockton) are also in the top six.

Not to take anything away from those three and the other standouts at perennial contender programs. But are any of those players’ teams where they are, firmly in title contention, mainly because of those individuals’ accomplishments?

It’s hard to argue they are. Those schools are consistently among the best recruiting schools, loading their rosters with some of the best high-school prospects in each year’s class.

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