Today's Tidbit... Four Heisman Trophy Winners In One College Game

A 2016 NFL game between Baltimore and Tennessee had five Heisman Trophy winners suit up for the game. Baltimore had Lamar Jackson (2016), Mark Ingram (2009), and Robert Griffin III (2012), while Tennessee had Derrick Henry (2015) and Marcus Mariota (2016). The previous record of four in a game came in 1998 when the Raiders, which included Tim Brown (no relation), Desmond Howard (also no relation), and Charles Woodson (also...), lost to the Doug Flutie-led Buffalo Bills in Week 15.

While those games make for interesting NFL trivia, they pale compared to a college game with the defending and three future Heisman Trophy winners on the same field. (We will pause here while you consider the likely year and teams competing in the game.)

Game action image (Tiptop25)

Played at Yankee Stadium on November 9, 1946, the Game of the Century featured two undefeated teams, #1 Army against #2 Notre Dame, averaging more than 30 points per game. In the first season of relative normalcy after the way, the nation's football fans were on pins and needles. The game attracted so much interest that Baker Field, the site of the Penn-Columbia game that day, banned portable radios so fans watching the game in Philadelphia would not hear the play-by-play of the Game of the Century coming from other fans' radios.