The player who received the most votes (by percentage) was Joe Burrow of LSU in 2019, with 93.8% of possible points. Burrow also won by the largest margin of votes, with 1,846 votes over second place. USC running back O. J. Simpson received the most total first place votes, in 1968, with 855, at a time when there were more total voters. The closest margin of votes was in 2009 between winner Mark Ingram of Alabama and Toby Gerhart of Stanford.