Breaking: USC quarterback Caleb Williams named 2022 Heisman Trophy Award winner following a stellar season in which he led the Trojans to an 11-2 record.
Williams was as dominant as it got in college football this season, piling up huge stat lines game after game.
He finished the year with 4,075 yards through the air and 372 yards rushing. He had 47 total touchdowns on the season - the most ever by a Trojan in a single campaign. His 4.447 yards total yards are also a school record. Williams beat out three other quarterbacks who were named finalists for the award, including Georgia's Stetson Bennett, TCU's Max Duggan and Ohio State's C.J. Stroud.
He received 544 first-place votes and 2,031 points, nearly double the runner-up in TCU quarterback Max Duggan . Stroud finished third and Bennett finished fourth. "Thank you, thank you. This is awesome, this is really awesome," Willams said after receiving the award. He told the fellow finalists, all of whom engineered College Football Playoff runs with their teams,"I may be standing up here today, but you all get to go to the college bowl playoffs.
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