Heisman voters are mostly sports media members, all former Heisman winners, plus a single combined “fan vote” ballot, adding up to roughly 930 total voters in recent years.

Who the voters are

  • The core group of Heisman voters is made up of sports journalists across the United States who regularly cover college football.
  • The country is split into six geographic “sections,” and each section currently has 145 media ballots, for a total of 870 media voters.

Former winners and fan vote

  • Every living former Heisman Trophy winner also gets a ballot, which recently has added about 59 more votes to the total pool.
  • There is one official fan ballot that comes from nationwide fan voting (through the Heisman website and social media), and that single fan ballot counts the same as one voter’s ballot in the final tabulation.

How many Heisman voters

  • When you combine media (870), former winners (around 59), and the one fan ballot, the total number of Heisman voters for the 2025 race is listed as 930.
  • Individual names of all voters are not published as a complete public list, though some media members and former winners publicly acknowledge their own ballots.

How their ballots work

  • Each voter ranks three players: first place gets three points, second place gets two, and third place gets one; all three spots must be used for the ballot to count.
  • A neutral point system and wide geographic distribution are meant to prevent sectional bias so no region can dominate the outcome on its own.

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