The Winning Margin: Year By Year

Year	Winner	School	Points	Runner-up	School	Points	Point Diff.
1935	Jay Berwanger	Chicago	84	Monk Meyer	Army	29	55
1936	Larry Kelley	Yale	219	Sam Francis	Nebraska	47	172
1937	Clint Frank	Yale	524	Byron White	Colorado	264	260
1938	Davey O'Brien	TCU	519	Marshall Goldberg	Pittsburgh	294	225
1939	Nile Kinnick	Iowa	651	Tom Harmon	Michigan	405	246
1940	Tom Harmon	Michigan	1,303	John Kimbrough	Texas A&M	841	462
1941	Bruce Smith	Minnesota	554	Angelo Bertelli	Notre Dame	345	209
1942	Frank Sinkwich	Georgia	1,059	Paul Governali	Columbia	218	841
1943	Angelo Bertelli	Notre Dame	648	Bob Odell	Pennsylvania	177	471
1944	Les Horvath	Ohio State	412	Glenn Davis	Army	287	125
1945	Doc Blanchard	Army	860	Glenn Davis	Army	638	222
1946	Glenn Davis	Army	792	Charlie Trippi	Georgia	435	357
1947	John Lujack	Notre Dame	742	Bob Chappuis	Michigan	555	187
1948	Doak Walker	Southern Methodist	778	Charlie Justice	North Carolina	443	335
1949	Leon Hart	Notre Dame	995	Charlie Justice	North Carolina	272	723
1950	Vic Janowicz	Ohio State	633	Kyle Rote	Southern Methodist	280	353
1951	Dick Kazmaier	Princeton	1,777	Hank Lauricella	Tennessee	424	1,353
1952	Billy Vessels	Oklahoma	525	Jack Scarbath	Maryland	367	158
1953	John Lattner	Notre Dame	1,850	Paul Giel	Minnesota	1,794	56
1954	Alan Ameche	Wisconsin	1,068	Kurt Burris	Oklahoma	838	230
1955	Howard Cassady	Ohio State	2,219	Jim Swink	Texas Christian	742	1,477
1956	Paul Hornung	Notre Dame	1,066	John Majors	Tennessee	994	72
1957	John David Crow	Texas A&M	1,183	Alex Karras	Iowa	693	490
1958	Pete Dawkins	Army	1,394	Randy Duncan	Iowa	1,021	373
1959	Billy Cannon	Louisiana State	1,929	Rich Lucas	Penn State	613	1,316
1960	Joe Bellino	Navy	1,793	Tom Brown	Minnesota	731	1,062
1961	Ernie Davis	Syracuse	824	Bob Ferguson	Ohio State	771	53
1962	Terry Baker	Oregon State	707	Jerry Stovall	Louisiana State	618	89
1963	Roger Staubach	Navy	1,860	Billy Lothridge	Georgia Tech	504	1,356
1964	John Huarte	Notre Dame	1,026	Jerry Rhome	Tulsa	952	74
1965	Mike Garrett	USC	926	Howard Twilley	Tulsa	528	398
1966	Steve Spurrier	Florida	1,679	Bob Griese	Purdue	816	863
1967	Gary Beban	UCLA	1,968	O.J. Simpson	USC	1,722	246
1968	O.J. Simpson	USC	2,853	Leroy Keyes	Purdue	1,103	1,750
1969	Steve Owens	Oklahoma	1,488	Mike Phipps	Purdue	1,334	144
1970	Jim Plunkett	Stanford	2,229	Joe Theismann	Notre Dame	1,410	819
1971	Pat Sullivan	Auburn	1,597	Ed Marinaro	Cornell	1,445	152
1972	Johnny Rodgers	Nebraska	1,310	Greg Pruitt	Oklahoma	966	344
1973	John Cappelletti	Penn State	1,057	John Hicks	Ohio State	524	533
1974	Archie Griffin	Ohio State	1,920	Anthony Davis	USC	819	1,101
1975	Archie Griffin	Ohio State	1,800	Chuck Muncie	California	730	1,070
1976	Tony Dorsett	Pittsburgh	2,357	Ricky Bell	USC	1,346	1,011
1977	Earl Campbell	Texas	1,547	Terry Miller	Oklahoma State	812	735
1978	Billy Sims	Oklahoma	827	Chuck Fusina	Penn State	750	77
1979	Charles White	USC	1,695	Billy Sims	Oklahoma	773	922
1980	George Rogers	South Carolina	1,128	Hugh Green	Pittsburgh	861	267
1981	Marcus Allen	USC	1,797	Herschel Walker	Georgia	1,199	598
1982	Herschel Walker	Georgia	1,926	John Elway	Stanford	1,231	695
1983	Mike Rozier	Nebraska	1,801	Steve Young	Brigham Young	1,172	629
1984	Doug Flutie	Boston College	2,240	Keith Byars	Ohio State	1,251	989
1985	Bo Jackson	Auburn	1,509	Chuck Long	Iowa	1,464	45
1986	Vinny Testaverde	Miami (Fla)	2,213	Paul Palmer	Temple	672	1,541
1987	Tim Brown	Notre Dame	1,442	Don McPherson	Syracuse	831	611
1988	Barry Sanders	Oklahoma State	1,878	Rodney Peete	USC	912	966
1989	Andre Ware	Houston	1,073	Anthony Thompson Indiana	1,003	70
1990	Ty Detmer	Brigham Young	1,482	Raghib Ismail	Notre Dame	1,177	305
1991	Desmond Howard	Michigan	2,077	Casey Weldon	Florida State	503	1,574
1992	Gino Torretta	Miami (Fla.)	1,400	Marshall Faulk	San Diego State	1,080	320
1993	Charlie Ward	Florida State	2,310	Heath Shuler	Tennessee	688	1,622
1994	Rashaan Salaam	Colorado	1,743	Ki-Jana Carter	Penn State	901	842
1995	Eddie George	Ohio State	1,460	Tommie Frazier	Nebraska	1,196	264
1996	Danny Wuerffel	Florida	1,363	Troy Davis	Iowa State	1,174	189
1997	Charles Woodson	Michigan	1,815	Peyton Manning	Tennessee	1,543	282
1998	Ricky Williams	Texas	2,355	Michael Bishop	Kansas State	792	1,563
1999	Ron Dayne	Wisconsin	2.042	Joe Hamilton	Georgia Tech	994	1,048
2000	Chris Weinke	Florida State	1,628	Josh Heupel	Oklahoma	1,552	76
2001	Eric Crouch	Nebraska	770	Rex Grossman	Florida	708	62
2002	Carson Palmer	Southern Cal	1,328	Brad Banks	Iowa	1,095	233
2003	Jason White	Oklahoma	1,481	Larry Fitzgerald	Pittsburgh	1,353	128
2004	Matt Leinart	Southern Cal	1,325	Adrian Peterson	Oklahoma	997	328
2005	Reggie Bush	Southern Cal	2,541	Vince Young	Texas	1,608	967