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College Football: 10 greatest players to never win the Heisman Trophy

By Dante Pryor

MADISON, WISCONSIN - NOVEMBER 09: Jonathan Taylor #23 of the Wisconsin Badgers runs with the football in the second half against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Camp Randall Stadium on November 09, 2019 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images)
MADISON, WISCONSIN - NOVEMBER 09: Jonathan Taylor #23 of the Wisconsin Badgers runs with the football in the second half against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Camp Randall Stadium on November 09, 2019 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images) /
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CHAMPAIGN, IL – SEPTEMBER 29: A Nebraska Cornhuskers flag is seen in the tailgating lot before the game against the Illinois Fighting Illini at Memorial Stadium on September 29, 2017, in Champaign, Illinois. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)
CHAMPAIGN, IL – SEPTEMBER 29: A Nebraska Cornhuskers flag is seen in the tailgating lot before the game against the Illinois Fighting Illini at Memorial Stadium on September 29, 2017, in Champaign, Illinois. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images) /

There is a fair amount of bias when it comes to selecting Tommie Fraizer as the best player to never win a Heisman Trophy.

College football was not the television giant that it is now. You had regional games on ABC, but the only national games were from the Pac-12, Notre Dame, the SEC and the Big 8 (now Big 12).

Legendary head football coach Tom Osborne came to Northwest Indiana and recruited some players from schools in my neck of the woods. My high school coach ran Nebraska’s offense since my high school coach was an Osborne disciple. Suffice it to say, I have a soft spot for the Cornhuskers and Frazier is my favorite college football player of all time.

The 1995 Heisman Trophy was one of the closest races in history with Eddie George winning the award. He had an outstanding, but an incomplete season. He had a good, but not a great showing as he was outplayed by Tim Biakabatuka in their annual rivalry game at the end of the year.

Nebraska rolled everyone that season including Colorado at Folsom Field in Boulder. Fraizer had one of his best games that season on the road against a ranked opponent. George had no such game.

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That, in my completely biased opinion, should have put Fraizer over the top, but the voters went with George.

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