You win some, you lose some. Just like how Boise State Broncos RB Ashton Jeanty found himself as one of the top contenders in the Heisman race all along. But in the end, the prize slipped out of his hand. And he had no other option than to see the Colorado Buffaloes’ dual threat Travis Hunter boast the bronze trophy. Can Jeanty be blamed for not being able to bring the prize home?

Looks like the CFB analyst gave the RB a free pass. Rather, according to him, it’s his program, the Boise State, that is responsible for Jeanty’s fate taking a wrong turn. 

Analyst’s bold claim for those joining Boise State

“I really felt like I should’ve walked away with the award, but kudos to Travis for winning,” said Jeanty. Well, you can feel the pain in those words, right? After all, the Boise State RB gave his blood, sweat, and tears into the race, rushing 2,497 yards this season. Now he just needs 132 yards in the College Football Playoff. In doing so he will be able to break legend Barry Sanders’ single-season rushing record of 2,628, set back in 1988.

Jeanty did bag the Maxwell Award for being college football’s top player. He also won the Doak Walker Award for the nation’s top RB. Even though he seems not to be too upset about losing the Heisman, it did not sit well with the college football analyst, Adam Breneman. To the analyst, the Broncos are the reason behind Jeamty’s Heisman snub. He dropped a bold claim: “The lesson is if you want to win the Heisman, don’t go to Boise State. That’s the differentiator in this whole thing.”

Breneman thinks Jeanty would have been a serious Heisman contender if he’d been playing for a bigger program like the Big 12, rather than Mountain West. “Ashton Jeanty played the group of five competition. If Jeanty put up the same numbers versus a Big 12 schedule, he would have won the Heisman in an absolute landslide…His only issue is that he didn’t play great competition,” stated the analyst. Maybe that’s because Boise State was only 200 points away. However, the other analysts do not feel that way.

Jason Fitz stated, “I don’t agree with you. If we are being real here Ashton Jeanty can put up those same numbers playing for Georgia.” But looks like a CBS sports analyst had already said the same thing about the Boise State program being the real problem, weeks before the finale. 

Ashton Jeanty’s revenge mission is on

When the Heisman race got squared down to a two-man race between Hunter and Jeanty, analyst Mckenzie Brooks had already predicted the Broncos RB’s fate. On the CBS Sports podcast, on November 8, he stated, “Boise State, when you’re not a power four school, you have to do this in style.” That’s what Brooks hinted at Hunter getting the privilege of playing in a Power 5 conference, like the Big 12. But before we blame everything on that, let’s see what the player himself is thinking. 

Looks like, Jeanty has already moved on. That doesn’t mean that he has left the ground for Hunter, and it’s going to be an easy ride ahead for the Buffs two-way star. Jeanty gave an interview with BroncoNewsNation where his words echoed his goal to seek revenge. He stated, “Anytime, you know, you have something that you feel you should have accomplished, or you know you should have been given- obviously, everything is earned- but I just, I really felt like I should have walked away with the award.”

That’s when Ashton Jeanty raised a warning for Travis Hunter to not take him easy. “You know, kudos to Travis [Hunter] for winning. But yeah, it’s [as] simple as that. Work harder, go harder. There’s a lot more to come. This isn’t the end. This is just the beginning. So I just got to do that, much more,” advised the Broncos RB. Denied the Heisman, but Ashton Jeanty’s competitive spirit burns brighter!