We may have a college football season but potentially no Heisman Trophy winner

The 2020 Heisman Trophy may not be handed out this year due to COVID-19.

Joe Burrow was so good he might get to be the Heisman Trophy winner for an extra year.

Burrow did give us an unforgettable season last year, but the Heisman Trophy not being handed out in 2020 has everything to do with the coronavirus. While it does look like college football will be played this fall, CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd reports there hasn’t been a decision whether to award the Heisman at this point and a decision by the Heisman Trust is expected to come later.

Should the Heisman Trophy be handed out in 2020, or should we skip a year?

Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence is the betting favorite after Ohio State’s Justin Fields was removed after the Big Ten’s decision to postpone the season. Oklahoma’s Spencer Rattler, LSU’s Myles Brenna, Miami’s D’Eriq King, Alabama’s Mac Jones and Najee Harris and Texas’ Sam Ehlinger are among the leading Heisman candidates hoping the Trophy will be awarded this winter.

Though it may have to be done virtually in mid-December, the Heisman Trust needs to figure out how to hand out the most prestigious award in all of college football this season. If the MLB could hand out MVP and Cy Young Awards during the 1994 strike, the Heisman voters can figure out how to pick the best player in the sport this fall, should the season reach completion.

The only problem with the award is it is incredibly parochial. There might be a ton of shameless homers in the Midwest and on the West Coast who will refuse to watch college football this fall out of spite because the Big Ten and the Pac-12 aren’t playing. Well, guess what? The ACC, the Big 12 and the SEC are all planning on playing and all three of those leagues have some great players.

It’s going to look weird playing college football no matter what, and it will be even weirder if there is a season played in its entirety and there is no Heisman to be handed out. If the College Football Playoff Selection Committee can pick the four best teams when there are only three Power 5 conferences to choose from, the Heisman voters can figure out how to pick one special player.

If the Heisman is not handed out when there is a season, the award loses pretty much all of its relevancy. You can’t just pick and choose when you hand out a Heisman. If there is a season, figure it out, vote like we’re all doing to do on Nov. 3 and pick the best player in the country. If a Heisman voter can’t figure out how to make this work, then they need to surrender their vote forever.

Not having a Heisman Trophy handed out if there is a season of college football is blasphemy.

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