There are two ways of looking at that. Notre Dame and Ohio State have 7. USC won 7, but forfeited one due to controversy, leaving them on 6. So they could be said to be third. The third highest total is for the Oklahoma Sooners, who have 5.
Tebow received the most 1st place votes (309 to winner Sam Bradford's 300) and 3rd place votes (234) in the 2008 Heisman Trophy voting.
As a junior, the sensational Ole Miss quarterback finished fourth in the Heisman voting behind 1969 winner Steve Owens of Oklahoma. In his senior year, Manning finished a distant third to 1970 Heisman winner Jim Plunkett of Stanford.
Barry Sanders, a running back for Oklahoma State University, was the winner of the 1988 Heisman Trophy. Sanders went on to a Hall of Fame career in the NFL playing 10 years with the Detroit Lions and finishing his career third in NFL all time rushing yardage with 15,269.
Junior running back Herschel Walker of Georgia won the 1982 Heisman Trophy over Stanford quarterback John Elway, 1,926 votes to 1,231. Walker was the 1981 Heisman runner up to Southern Cal running back Marcus Allen. He also finished third in 1980, behind South Carolina running back George Rogers and Pitt defensive lineman Hugh Green.
David Palmer came in third place in 1993. Charlie Ward (Fla St) won and Heath Shuler (Tenn.) came in second.
Jim Brown (Syracuse University) finished 5th in the Heisman voting in 1956 behind winner Paul Hornung of Notre Dame, second place Johnny Majors of Tennessee, third place Tommy McDonald of Oklahoma, and fourth place Jerry Tubbs of Oklahoma.
Larry Kelley from Yale
There was the original trophy, called the Jules Rimet, first presented in 1930 to winners Uruguay. In 1970 it was given to Brazil to keep as they had won it for a third time. It was however stolen in 1983 and never recovered. The current Trophy, which was first presented in 1974 is called the World Cup Trophy.
The fifty states of the U.S. are split into six regions, and six regional representatives are selected to appoint voters in their states (the regions include the Far West, the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast, South, and Southwest). Each region has 145 media votes, for a total of 870 votes. In addition, all previous Heisman winners may vote, and one final vote is counted through public balloting. Although voters still attending college can not vote until said player's collegiate career is over. The Heisman ballots contain a 3-2-1 point system, in which each ballot ranks the voter's top three players and awards them three points for a first-place vote, two points for a second-place vote, and one point for a third-place vote. The points are tabulated, and the player with the highest total of points across all ballots wins the Heisman Trophy.
He started at quarterback for Ole Miss as a sophomore in 1968. As a junior in 1969, he finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy voting. As a senior in 1970, he finished third in the Heisman voting, despite being sidelined for part of the season with a broken arm.
O.J. Simpson of USC in 1968.
Griffin the third should win if they go by talent