The crowd at the Big House cheered, of course, but from Peppers’s perspective, one more touchdown opportunity had been denied. “It’s just happening organically, right?” Harbaugh said after the game when asked whether he felt tempted to feature Peppers more to build his statistics and pad his Heisman résumé. Brennan, Jones’s quarterback, was a two-time Heisman finalist who had passed and rushed for a combined 63 touchdowns that season. Despite maybe being college football’s best player, Peppers, through no fault of his own, is virtually certain not to win the award designated for college football’s best player. Should Jackson forget how to throw before Louisville’s next game, his top rivals are Peppers, Washington quarterback Jake Browning, Ohio State quarterback J.T.

Source: New York Times November 08, 2016 16:53 UTC