Vinny Testaverde, the incomparable quarterback of the University of Miami, is the 52nd winner of college football's premier individual award, The Heisman Trophy. Vinny, in common with all great quarterbacks, knows that his offensive line makes or breaks the day for him, and no one has been more generous in praise of his blockers than the 6'5", 220-pound aerial wizard from Elmont, Long Island, New York. Let that most successful of college football coaches, in terms of winning percentage, Oklahoma's Barry Switzer, tell you how good Vinny is as a quarterback. "In 21 years," Switzer said, after Vinny had thrown four touchdown passes to beat his number-one-ranked Sooners earlier in the season, "I have never seen a better quarterback." To add some statistical weight to Switzer's appraisal, consider that through the first nine games of the 1986 season, Vinny had completed 154 passes in 242 attempts for but what was perhaps even more impressive was the fact that he threw only eight interceptions. He is, in addition, Miami's all-time leader in career touchdown passes, with 46. Vinny was the number one selection for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and now plays for the New York Jets. He and his wife Mitzi have one daughter, Alicia Marie, and one son, Vincent, Junior.

The Voting

					Points
Place	Name	School	Class	Pos.	1	2	3	Total
1st	Vinny Testaverde	Miami (Florida)	Sr.	QB	678	76	27	2,213
2nd	Paul Palmer	Temple	Sr.	TB	28	207	174	672
3rd	Jim Harbaugh	Michigan	Sr.	QB	25	136	111	458
4th	Brian Bosworth	Oklahoma	Jr.	LB	9	136	96	395
5th	Gordon Lockbaum	Holy Cross	Jr.	TB-DB	32	39	68	242
6th	Brent Fullwood	Auburn	Sr.	TB	4	45	27	129
7th	Cornelius Bennett	Alabama	Sr.	LB	3	29	29	96
8th	D.J. Dozier	Penn State	Sr.	TB	0	23	31	77
9th	Kevin Sweeney	Fresno State	Sr.	QB	6	16	23	73
10th	Chris Spielman	Ohio State	Jr.	LB	5	9	27	60

Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde's 1,541-point margin of victory over Temple running back Paul Palmer is the fifth highest in Heisman history. Testaverde equaled Doug Flutie's 678 first place votes, with the second highest amount going to Holy Cross two-day star Gordon Lockbaum, who had 32 and finished fifth overall.

No. of registered electors: 1,050
Date of announcement: December 6, 1986
Date of dinner: December 11, 1986

The positions within each region are as follows:

Place	NORTH-EAST	MID-ATLANTIC	SOUTH	SOUTH-WEST	MIDWEST	FAR WEST
1st	Testaverde	Testaverde	Testaverde	Testaverde	Testaverde	Testaverde
2nd	Lockbaum	Palmer	Fullwood	Bosworth	Bosworth	Palmer
3rd	Palmer	Harbaugh	Palmer	Palmer	Palmer	Harbaugh
4th	Bosworth	Boswroth	Bennett	Bosworth	Harbaugh	Bosworth
5th	Harbaugh	Lockbaum	Harbaugh	Spielman	Murray	Sweeney

Runners-up
Paul Palmer - Temple
Jim Harbaugh - Michigan
Brian Bosworth - Oklahoma
Gordon Lockbaum - Holy Cross