The 6-foot, 225-pound Williams is the second Texas Longhorn to win the Heisman Trophy. Ricky also garnered numerous post-season honors including the Walter Camp Football Foundation Player of the Year Award, the Doak Walker Award, the Maxwell Award as well as being named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year. Ricky holds or shares 20 NCAA records. Ricky became the NCAA career-rushing leader in 1998 with 6,279 yards. Ricky and the Longhorns finished the 1998 season with a 38-11 victory over Mississippi State in the Cotton Bowl to go 9-3 on the season. Ricky was drafted 5th overall by the New Orleans Saints in the 1999 NFL Draft. The selection of Ricky Williams marks the first time in NFL history that one player has been a team's entire draft class.

The Voting

					Points
Place	Name	School	Class	Position	1	2	3	Total
1	Ricky Williams	Texas	Senior	RB	714	91	31	2,355
2	Michael Bishop	Kansas State	Senior	QB	41	250	169	792
3	Cade McNown	UCLA	Senior	QB	28	217	178	696
4	Tim Couch	Kentucky	Junior	QB	26	153	143	527
5	Donovan McNabb	Syracuse	Senior	QB	13	54	85	232
6	Daunte Culpepper	Central Florida	Senior	QB	5	11	30	67
7	Champ Bailey	Georgia	Senior	DB	6	8	21	55
8	Torry Holt	North Carolina State	Senior	WR	2	8	32	44
9	Joe Germaine	Ohio State	Senior	QB	2	11	15	43
10	Shaun King	Tulane	Senior	QB	1	11	13	38

Ricky Williams became the second player from University of Texas to win the Heisman, joining 1977 winner Earl Campbell. Williams' 1,563-point margin of victory over Kansas State quarterback Michael Bishop was the fourth highest in Heisman history. Williams, who set an NCAA career rushing record, was followed in the voting by five quarterbacks and seven of the top 10 slots went to quarterbacks.

No. of registered electors: 921
Date of announcement: December 12, 1998
Date of dinner: December 14, 1998

The points by region and position within each region for the top four candidates:

Name	North-east		Mid Atlantic		South		South-west		Mid-west		Far West
Williams	382	1	403	1	398	1	404	1	384	1	384	1
Bishop	123	2	107	2	93	3	193	2	144	2	132	3
McNown	106	3	102	3	85	4	112	3	106	3	185	2
Couch	59	5	99	4	162	2	80	4	65	4	62	4