In accounting for four touchdowns in USC's 38-27 win over Notre Dame, Caleb Williams again made a convincing case that he deserves the Heisman Trophy.
During one hot moment on a chilly Saturday night in downtown Los Angeles, this city’s newest sports superstar ran around the Coliseum grass for what seemed like an eternity while avoiding desperate hulks, lunging helmets, flailing arms.
He’ll soon be holding the real thing. The race is over. The polling will be overwhelming. It shouldn’t even be close. With his gleaming white headband and scruffy beard and constant cheering, the sophomore transfer from Oklahoma has vaulted from local anonymity to celebrated fixture about as quickly as one of his scrambles.
Nice guy. A worthy successor to the likes of Matt Leinart and Carson Palmer. Trojans fans barely know him but understandably already embrace him.“A bunch of my teammate were saying do it. ... After I score, I normally just kind of don’t do anything, so they told me to do it,” Williams said. “They kept saying it, so I just ended up doing it in the moment.”— Ryan Kartje Certainly, there is much work remaining in this suddenly exhilarating completion of coach Lincoln Riley’s dream debut season.
In the previous eight seasons of the CFP, seven of the Heisman winners came from playoff team, the only exception being Louisville’s Lamar Jackson in 2016. But Williams perfectly fits the mold of that exception. He started the game by beautifully pulling off two fake handoffs and tossing a 31-yard pass to Lake McCree. He perfectly executed a reverse handoff that Addison carried for seven yards. He faked a pass and ran up the middle for seven yards to give him 323 rushing yards this season, a record for a USC quarterback. Finally, he eluded one rusher, juked another and hit Washington on an 11-yard pass for the game’s first touchdown.
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