Could Oregon QB Marcus Marriota Be the First Unanimous Heisman Winner?

The Flying Hawaiian has been absolutely electric this season. With 53 touchdowns to his name and over 4400 yards to his name he has made even the dullest of games look exciting. It doesn't hurt that he has some incredible talent around him, but he's been good enough to make even the ones that are not talented look like stars.

Heading in to Saturday night's Heisman Trophy Presentation he is widely expected to be the named the winner. The question is whether he could actually be the first unanimous vote in Heisman history.

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According to the Heisman website Ohio State's Troy Smith came the closest to being a unanimous vote with 91.63 percent of possible points in 2006. Ricky Williams comes in second with 85.23 percent back in 1998.

However, according to the list of past winners on Wikipedia Georgia halfback Frank Sinkwich came pretty close with 99.69 percent, but that was back when the highest point total was just 1059 relative to over 2500 now.

Either way--there hasn't been a unanimous winner yet. So with Mariota's track record could he be the first?

Doubtful. With 929 voters it is highly unlikely that Amari Cooper or Melvin Gordon do not get at least one first place vote. If the vote was strictly about whoever was the best player in college football it might be able to happen, but we here every year about at least one person not voting for the winner because he didn't like his personality (or for some other stupid reason).

Could he break Troy Smith's record though? Absolutely. He has played that well and impacted his team to such a degree that it is easy to see the bulk of the voted going his way.

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