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Ranking Heisman Trophy winners since 2000: Joe Burrow, Cam Newton top 21st century list

Does a national championship validate a Heisman Trophy run?

It's always the epilogue – the Heisman Trophy is awarded before the college football postseason. Yet it's tacked on to the legacy of the player who wins that award; the next which will be added on Saturday.

It remains a separator when trying to decide the best Heisman Trophy winners of this century. Seven of those winners also won the national championship in the same season. That includes three Alabama winners in Mark Ingram (2009), Derrick Henry (2015) and DeVonta Smith (2020). Florida State's Jameis Winston (2013) and USC's Matt Leinart (2003) also won both in the same season.

That leaves two quarterbacks who top

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