Paul Goldberg

Jan 15, 2025 | heisman.com | Paul Goldberg

The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame announced on Wednesday 18 players and four coaches that will make up the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame Class, including five players that finished in the top 5 of Heisman voting and two coaches who directed Heisman winners.

Nov 27, 2024 | heisman.com | Paul Goldberg

In the second-to-last regular-season weekend of the 2024 college football campaign, seven ranked team fell, many with players with Heisman aspirations. But as we’ve learned in recent years, late losses aren’t as severe of a hit for Heisman fortunes that we once were. Let’s take a peek at media buzz heading into Thanksgiving. The team at The Athletic released its latest 27-person Heisman Trophy straw poll and Colorado WR/CB Travis Hunter was comfortably in first with 24 first-place votes.

Nov 25, 2024 | heisman.com | Paul Goldberg

Thanksgiving week is trouble for turkey, but pretty much a net positive for the rest of us, especially fans of football and Heisman history. It’s only natural that the week of Thanksgiving, coming within a turkey leg’s distance of Heisman week, seems to have such an usually outsized impact on the Heisman race. Heisman voters, who have been eyeing a race for three months, have narrowed down the field in their minds to a handful of players, or maybe just one or two.

Nov 14, 2024 | heisman.com | Paul Goldberg

We are a month out from the 2024 Heisman Trophy weekend and still have a wide open race for the stiff-arm trophy with a number of players vying for the coveted award. Let’s dig right into the how the college football media world is looking at the race. Bleacher Report is staking its ground. Its headline spoils any suspense in the article, saying “Travis Hunter’s Race To Lose Entering Week 12”. As we’ll see, it’s somewhat of a common refrain.

Nov 13, 2024 | heisman.com | Paul Goldberg

As we near Heisman Trophy weekend, we are sharing a quick spotlight on one of our previous winners, 2019 Heisman great Joe Burrow, who has been dogged in his philanthropic efforts. Burrow started The Joe Burrow Foundation following his moving Heisman Trophy speech that cited the massive challenges in his home area of Ohio in which he grew up.