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Just in time for the holidays, the 81st annual Heisman Trophy presentation celebrates a new college football champion this year in New York City. Watch for the official ceremony to be televised live on ESPN on Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 8PM ET when this year's winner will be announced. Heavy favorite: LSU's Leonard Fournette. In August, odds makers were already placing bets on early favorites to emerge as top contenders for the 2015 trophy.
The first such award, in 1935, went to Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago; the trophy has been in the shape of a player with his arm extended since the very beginning. Heisman died the next year and the award was then named in his honor â an honor that continues to this day. Not that everything about the Heisman Trophy is about honoring him: when Berwanger died in 2002, it was reported that the playerâs aunt had used the first-ever Heisman Trophy as a doorstop.