Every week this school soccer season, BetFTW will check out the 2024 Heisman Trophy race and break down the contenders. Test again each week as one of the best faculty soccer gamers within the nation jockey for place with each oddsmakers and bettors. All odds by way of BetMGM.
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Congratulations to everybody who’s sick of the Heisman going to quarterbacks. That is the race you’ve been ready for.
After Vanderbilt shocked Alabama and newly-minted favourite Jalen Milroe final week, Boise State tailback Ashton Jeanty (+200) has taken over with one of the best odds to win the Heisman any participant has held this season. Proper behind the NCAA’s main rusher is Colorado’s Travis Hunter (+300), and never an excessive amount of additional down is Ohio State freshman wideout Jeremiah Smith.
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After all, there are nonetheless quite a lot of quarterbacks within the race, nevertheless it looks as if placing up online game numbers in opposition to cupcake groups isn’t impressing the oddsmakers anymore. We’ll see if the precise Heisman voters really feel the identical means in about two months.
Within the meantime, right here’s had been the race stands.
10. Ohio State WR Jeremiah Smith (+4000)
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- Smith: +6600 (Off The Board)
That is actually not the freshman wideout all of us thought could be on this listing a number of weeks in the past, however the Buckeyes star has been so simple recently you virtually surprise if his odds aren’t brief sufficient. Past the spotlight reel one-handed catches, Smith has put collectively a 23-catch, 453-yard begin to the season that ranks fifth within the Large Ten. His six touchdowns are the second-most by any wideout within the convention, too.
An absolute drive.
9. Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava (+3500)
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Nicely, while you lose on the street to Arkansas, you’re gonna see a large tumble in your Heisman odds. All the nice work the Volunteers (learn: Dylan Sampson) did to spice up Iamaleava early within the 12 months appears a bit irrelevant in the intervening time.
The freshman can get again on monitor this week in opposition to Florida, however let’s preserve issues in perspective: Iamaleava’s odds nonetheless rank within the high 10. If he performs regular whereas others on this listing fall off, he’ll be proper again within the race so long as Tennessee resumes profitable.
8. Ole Miss QB Jaxson Dart (+2200)
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No hurt, no foul?
Dart is true again the place oddsmakers positioned him to start this season, albeit with a crushing loss to Kentucky on his resume. Final week’s final 27-3 victory over South Carolina restored some religion within the quarterback. All of that shall be undone, nonetheless, if Ole Miss loses to LSU in Week 7. Dart’s marketing campaign primarily folds with no signature win on Saturday.
7. Clemson QB Cade Klubnik, Texas QB Quinn Ewers (+2000)
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- Klubnik: +3000 (+3500)
- Ewers: +2000 (+800)
Ewers is ready to return from an stomach damage that price him 2.5 video games this Saturday in opposition to Oklahoma within the Crimson River Rivalry recreation. Whereas it’s powerful to see him profitable the Heisman with lower than 11 begins this 12 months, Texas’ schedule is simply powerful sufficient to make up the distinction.
Put extra merely: If the Longhorns win out and stay the No. 1 workforce within the nation, Ewers is headed to New York. What occurs there is determined by how he performs beginning now.
6. Georgia QB Carson Beck (+1500)
Georgia quarterback Carson Beck (15) throws the ball in the course of the second half his workforce’s 2023 recreation in opposition to Florida at Everbank Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla.
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Georgia’s issues are under no circumstances solved no matter what Week 6’s victory over Auburn confirmed. Beck’s passer ranking of 157.6 ranks eleventh within the SEC. His 8.4 yards per cross try rank ninth. Passing for 12 touchdowns already does, nonetheless, go a great distance right here. As does the actual fact loads of sportsbooks have a ton of cash wagered on him already, which can preserve his odds a bit shorter than they in all probability must be to restrict any extra legal responsibility.
5. Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel (+1400)
Oregon quarterback Dillon Gabriel, proper, celebrates a primary quarter landing in opposition to Boise State at Autzen Stadium in Eugene Sept. 7, 2024.
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No disrespect to Jeanty, Hunter or anybody else above Gabriel, however don’t be shocked if he’s the brand new favourite subsequent week if the Geese defeat Ohio State. Particularly with Oregon getting into the house recreation as a 3.5-point underdog.
Gabriel has been among the best quarterbacks within the Large Ten this 12 months and the Geese have continued to look higher and higher every week. The preseason favourite has now thrown for 1,449 yards, 11 touchdowns and three picks with one other two scores on the bottom.
He might management the Heisman race once more very quickly.
4. Alabama QB Jalen Milroe (+900)
Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe (4) dances for a tv digital camera after scoring a landing in the course of the third quarter of their recreation Saturday, September 14, 2024 at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin. Alabama beat Wisconsin 42-10.
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Hear, I don’t wish to say Milroe can’t win anymore. That’s an absurd thought for such an electrical dual-threat QB at Alabama. However that Vanderbilt loss goes to be extremely powerful to beat on his resume — even when this isn’t the identical downtrodden Vandy workforce we’re used to.
The excellent news is that Alabama’s schedule affords Milroe loads of alternatives to make up for it with No. 8 Tennessee, No. 21 Missouri, No. 13 LSU and No. 18 Oklahoma all on faucet earlier than the Iron Bowl.
3. Miami (Fla.) QB Cam Ward (+500)
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It makes full sense Ward is the highest QB on the board after Miami’s comeback in opposition to Cal final week. All he does it put up signature second after signature second along with his trademark poise within the pocket.
Ward leads all QBs in FBS with 2,219 yards and 20 touchdowns passing. That greater than makes up for the 5 picks he’s thrown. As far the Heisman race goes, it’s in all probability not one of the best time for Miami’s bye week, however the Canes positive deserve it after an evening recreation in Berkeley.
Say a prayer for Louisville in Week 8 if Ward comes again totally rested.
2. Colorado WR/DB Travis Hunter (+300)
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He’s enjoying practically each snap on each side of the ball and dominating. We’ve coated this advert nauseam. However in earlier weeks we mentioned that Hunter may win the Heisman no matter Colorado’s general document. That may not even be a priority anymore. The Buffaloes are 4-1, proper in the course of the Large 12 title race, and have an opportunity for a large residence win in opposition to No. 18 Kansas State this week.
We don’t must consider in Coach Prime anymore. We’re seeing it.
1. Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty (+200)
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Odds Final Week (Opening Odds)
- Jeanty: +1000 (Off The Board)
Alabama wideout DeVonta Smith in 2020 was the final participant to win the Heisman who was off the board earlier than Week 1. Earlier than that it was Johnny Manziel in 2011, who wasn’t even listed at BetMGM till Week 8.
Jeanty’s story might blow all of them away. The nation’s finest tailback by a very good mile may turn out to be the primary participant from a non-Energy 5 workforce to win the award since BYU’s Ty Detmer in 1990.
And he’s the explanation we’ll all be staying up till 2 a.m. ET watching Boise State play at Hawaii. You probably have not seen Jeanty run but, belief us, the dearth of sleep shall be price it.
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