2020 Heisman Trophy Odds Tracker

• The Heisman Trophy is college football’s most prestigious individual award.
• Justin Fields is favored after Week 3, despite his Ohio State Buckeyes still sporting a 0-0 record on the season
• See the odds on the favorites and longshots, starting from last year’s title game right up to award week (Dec. . 

Editor’s note (Aug. 20): with the uncertainty surrounding the entire 2020-21 season, most sportsbooks have removed  their college football futures. This tracker will continue to post the average odds from the few sportsbooks that are still offering Heisman futures.  

Every season, this page tracks the favorites for college football’s most prestigious award, the Heisman Trophy, by averaging out the futures available at major online sportsbooks.

Predicting who will win is a difficult exercise, especially in the preseason. In 2018, eventual winner Kyler Murray wasn’t even on the board at the outset, and he was a +2300 longshot when he first popped up in late July. Fellow finalist Dwayne Haskins started out at +3500. The 2019 season produced an even more unlikely winner: Joe Burrow was as long as +15000 in the preseason.

Heisman Trophy Favorites

• Top-Six Favorites
• Top-12 Favorites
• Top-20 Favorites
• Longshots

• Sep. 21: Two of the top-six favorites – Justin Fields (Ohio State) and JT Daniels (Georgia) – still have not played a game.
• Sep. 16: OU’s Spencer Rattler improved from +900 to +400 after a phenomenal first game (14/17, 290 yards, four TDs). Caveat: it was against Missouri State.
• June 15: Eight out of the top-20 favorites are from the SEC at this point (and 10 of the top 25). No other conference has more than four in the top 25.
• June 8: Myles Brennan, a.k.a. Joe Burrow’s replacement at LSU, has fallen all the way to +2650 after opening at +900.
• May 23: Lawrence (+333) and Fields (+303) have flip-flopped at the top again; the Buckeye pivot is once again the favorite.
• May 10: A new slate of options are on the board, including Taulia Tagovailoa, Bryce Young, and John Rhys Plumlee.
• Mar. 13: Texas QB Sam Ehlinger has vaulted into the top-five favorites at +1000. He was as long as +1600.
• Feb. 11: D’Eriq King is now a top-five favorite at +875, which only trails Lawrence (+308) and Fields (+317).
• Jan. 20: After officially transfering from Houston to Miami, D’Eriq King has entered the top 15 in the 2020 Heisman odds at an average of +1750.
• Jan. 8: The second set of odds sees Lawrence (+225) jump Fields (+250) as the favorite. We have so far left Chuba Hubbard off the graphs, believing the OK St junior will declare for the draft.
• Dec. 20: Justin Fields has opened as a +250 favorite, closely followed by Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence. After the two favorites, there is a sharp drop to Alabama’s Mac Jones in third (+800).

Heisman Trophy Odds

Odds as of Sep. 21, 2020.  

Who Usually Wins the Heisman Trophy?

Lately, quarterbacks.

Here’s the list of Heisman Trophy winners by position, going back to the turn of the millenium. Only three non-QBs are on the list (and they’re all RBs). If you want to win this award, you better have the ball in your hands a lot.

Heisman Trophy Winners Since 2000

For those of you playing along at home, that’s 17 QBs and 3 running backs.

The last Heisman to go to a different position was Charles Woodson’s 1997 win. Before that, it was Desmond Howard in 1991, then Johnny Rodgers (who was kind of a running back) in 1972, and then Notre Dame end Leon Hart in 1949.