First, off I want to make it clear that the voters got the winner correct. USC’s Caleb Williams was the best, most exciting player in all of college football this season. No issues with that at all but at first glance, it was where Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud finished that made me think.
Which led to me to dive a bit deeper to see if the voters got the positioning of Stroud wrong. The junior finished third, behind Williams and TCU’s Max Duggan. Let’s look at the stats and see if the voters got this one correct between Stroud and Duggan.
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Both led their teams to the College Football Playoff
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The award is given to players who typically have an impressive team and record, which doesn’t make much sense due to the award being about the individual. Since this is a factor, although not the determining one, it’s a wash.
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Passing yards
The accuracy and ball placement by CJ Stroud on this throw 🔥pic.twitter.com/zJywSEci9E
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This one is as close as it can be, Stroud having just 19 more yards than Duggan, 3,340 to 3,321. Stroud takes an advantage when you dig a bit deeper into the stat, as his 9.4 yards-per-attempt was second in the country behind Tennessee’s Hendon Hooker and James Madison’s Todd Centeio. Duggan wasn’t that far off with 9.0 and the discrepancy between the two was that Stoud did his damage needing 13 less attempts than the…
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