At 6-feet 5-inches and 230 pounds, Chris Weinke is the second Florida State Seminole to win the Heisman Trophy. Chris was the first three-year starter at quarterback in the 22-year tenure of Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden. In 1999 Chris led the Seminoles to their first undefeated season and their second national title. Charlie Ward, the 1993 Heisman Trophy winner led Florida State to their first national title in 1993. Chris led the Seminoles to three straight national championship games as the complied a 32-3 record at Florida State as the starting quarterback. During Chris' Heisman winning season he led the nation in passing with 4,167 yards during the regular season for an average of 347.3 yards per game. Chris is the second QB in NCAA history to pass for more than 9,500 career yards and win a national championship. Chris is the ACC and FSU career record holder for career passing yardage as well as career touchdown passes. Chris was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the 2001 NFL draft.

The Voting

					Points
Place	Name	School	Class	Position	1	2	3	Total
1st	Chris Weinke	Florida State	Sr.	QB	369	216	89	1,628
2nd	Josh Heupel	Oklahoma	Sr.	QB	286	290	114	1,552
3rd	Drew Brees	Purdue	Sr.	QB	69	107	198	619
4th	Ladanian Tomlinson	Texas Christian	Sr.	RB	47	110	205	566
5th	Damien Anderson	Northwestern	Sr.	RB	6	20	43	101
6th	Michael Vick	Virginia Tech	So.	QB	7	14	34	83
7th	Santana Moss	Miami	Sr.	WR	3	9	28	55
8th	Marques Tuiasosopo	Washington	Sr.	QB	5	8	10	41
9th	Ken Simonton	Oregon State	Jr.	RB	1	5	12	25
10th	Rudi Johnson	Auburn	Jr.	RB	3	1	9	20

Chris Weinke became Florida State's second Heisman Trophy Winner, following the 1993 Winner Charlie Ward. Chris, who spent 7 years playing professional baseball, became the oldest Heisman Trophy Winner at age 28. Florida State's head coach, Bobby Bowden, became only the 9th coach in history to coach multiple Heisman Winners. Josh Heupel's 1,552 total points is the third highest total for a second place finisher, behind Minnesota's Paul Giel in 1953 (1,792 points) and Southern California's O.J. Simpson (1,722) points.

No. of registered electors: 922
Date of announcement: December 9, 2000
Date of dinner: December 11, 2000

The number of points by region and position within each region are as follows for the top four candidates:

Name	North-east		Mid Atlantic		South		South-west		Mid-west		Far West
Weinke	305	1	308	1	310	1	231	2	246	1	228	2
Heupel	263	2	240	2	255	2	330	1	220	2	244	1
Brees	94	4	83	4	84	4	83	4	171	3	104	3
Tomlinson	111	3	87	3	97	3	129	3	55	4	87	4