Ohio State Wide Receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. Finishes Fourth in Heisman Trophy Voting

By Dan Hope on December 9, 2023 at 9:08 pm
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Marvin Harrison Jr. finished fourth in the voting for this year’s Heisman Trophy.

LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels won the 2023 Heisman Trophy – joining Joe Burrow as the second LSU quarterback in five years to win the award – while Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr. finished second in balloting and Oregon quarterback Bo Nix came in third.

Harrison, the only non-quarterback to finish in the top six in this year’s Heisman vote, received 20 first-place votes, 78 second-place votes and 136 third-place votes – the fourth-most in all three categories.

2023 Heisman Trophy Voting Results
Rank Player Pos School 1st 2nd 3rd Total Points
1 JAYDEN DANIELS QB LSU 503 217 86 2,029
2 MICHAEL PENIX JR. QB WASHINGTON 292 341 143 1,701
3 BO NIX QB OREGON 51 205 322 885
4 MARVIN HARRISON JR. WR OHIO STATE 20 78 136 352
5 JORDAN TRAVIS QB FLORIDA STATE 8 19 23 85
6 JALEN MILROE QB ALABAMA 4 8 45 73
7 OLLIE GORDON II RB OKLAHOMA STATE 1 2 24 31
8 CODY SCHRADER RB MISSOURI 1 2 22 29
9 BLAKE CORUM RB MICHIGAN 3 2 15 28
10 J.J. MCCARTHY QB MICHIGAN 1 7 4 21

Harrison finished fourth in four of five voting regions except for the South, where he finished sixth.

Ohio State players have now had six third- or fourth-place finishes in the Heisman vote in the last six years.

Ohio State’s Heisman Finalists Since 2018
Year Pos Player Finish Voting Points
2018 QB DWAYNE HASKINS 3rd 783
2019 QB JUSTIN FIELDS 3rd 747
2019 DE CHASE YOUNG 4th 643
2021 QB C.J. STROUD 4th 399
2022 QB C.J. STROUD 3rd 539
2023 WR MARVIN HARRISON JR. 4th 352

Troy Smith, who won the Heisman in 2006, remains Ohio State’s most recent Heisman winner. Ohio State remains tied with Notre Dame, Oklahoma and USC for the most Heisman winners all-time with all four schools having seven Heisman winners (though USC would have eight if Reggie Bush’s Heisman was not vacated).

Harrison’s fourth-place finish is the highest ever for an Ohio State wide receiver and the highest for any wide receiver since Alabama’s DeVonta Smith won the Heisman in 2020.

While Harrison won’t be bringing the Heisman back to Columbus, he’s earned plenty of other hardware over the last couple of weeks to add to his trophy collection. Harrison won the Biletnikoff Award on Friday night as college football’s top pass catcher and won the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year award as well as his second Big Ten Receiver of the Year award last week.

Harrison has also been named as a first-team All-American by numerous organizations including the Walter Camp Football Foundation, the first of five All-American teams Harrison will need to make to earn unanimous All-American status for the second year in a row.

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