Who should win the Heisman Trophy?

On Saturday, Watson will sit front and center with Alabama’s Derrick Henry and Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey as one will be crowned the top player in college football at the Best Buy Theater in New York City.

So thankful for all the support! McCaffrey leads that by a wide margin at 268.9 yards per game, and his 3,496 yards on the season broke Barry Sanders’ 1988 NCAA record (again, in two more games played than Sanders). McCaffrey ran for 1,847 yards, caught for 540, returned 14 punts for 67 yards, returned 36 kickoffs for 1,042, and threw for 39.

The 2015 Heisman Trophy will be handed out on Saturday night in one of the most anticipated evenings of the college football season.

McCaffrey is attempting to do what runners-up John Elway (1982), Toby Gerhart (2009) and Andrew Luck (2010-11) could not: Become Stanford’s first Heisman victor since Jim Plunkett in 1970.

Over the past few weeks, these three individuals looked like the three sure-fire finalists, though there were other players, such as Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield and Navy Midshipmen quarterback Keenan Reynolds, that seemed deserving of invitations to NY.

On Thursday, Watson will go to Atlanta for the College Football Awards show where he’s a finalist for the Maxwell Award and the Davey O’Brien Award, Bourret said. His worst game of the season up to that point was a 150-yard, one-touchdown performance the previous week against Western Kentucky.

Granted, he’s done it in 13 games, two more than Walker.

McCaffrey, a sophomore, gained more national attention the second half of the season. During the fourth quarter, he set the single-season school record for rushing yards, surpassing Charles Alexander’s 1977 mark of 1,686 yards. The three finalists are also spread out among the ACC, Pac-12 and SEC.

As we have noted in the past, the number of finalists are determined by hitting an unspecified voting threshold.

If two tracking polls are any indication, the Heisman Trophy race is extremely close. He accounted for 37 percent of Alabama’s yards from scrimmage this season, but the big back scored 42 percent of their touchdowns. “Yes, yes, he does”, USC coach Clay Helton said after McCaffrey blistered the Trojans for 461 all-purpose yards in the Pac-12 championship game Saturday.

On Sunday after the win over A&M, Fournette tweeted, “The insane thing is my team told me I am the Heisman victor in their eyes”. He has over 3,000 yards passing with 750 yards rushing and has accrued a total of 41 touchdowns. The players that are invited to NY are the ones who have separated themselves from the rest of the field by collecting the most votes.