31 College Football trivia questions about the 2010s.
Who won the 2011 Heisman for Baylor?
Robert Griffin III (2011)
He was Baylor's first Heisman winner.
Who became the first freshman to win the Heisman, in 2012?
Johnny Manziel (2012)
Johnny Football upset No. 1 Alabama in Tuscaloosa that season.
Chris Davis' 109-yard Kick Six return beat which team?
Alabama (2013)
Auburn won the 2013 Iron Bowl on a missed field goal return as time expired.
Who won the 2014 Heisman for Oregon?
Marcus Mariota (2014)
He was Oregon's first Heisman winner.
Who won the 2015 Heisman for Alabama?
Derrick Henry (2015)
He ran for 2,219 yards.
Jim Harbaugh left which NFL team to coach Michigan in 2015?
San Francisco 49ers (2015)
He had played quarterback at Michigan.
Which coach brought the Row the Boat motto to Minnesota?
P.J. Fleck (2017)
Fleck coined it at Western Michigan.
Saquon Barkley played college football at which school?
Penn State (2017)
He went second overall in 2018.
Auburn won the 2010 season title by beating which team?
Oregon (2011)
Wes Byrum kicked the winning field goal as time expired.
Which school joined the Big Ten in 2011?
Nebraska (2011)
Maryland and Rutgers followed in 2014.
After a 9-6 loss to LSU in November, Alabama won the January 2012 title rematch by what score?
21-0 (2012)
LSU never crossed midfield until late in the fourth quarter.
Texas A&M and which other school joined the SEC in 2012?
Missouri (2012)
Both came from the Big 12.
Auburn's Prayer at Jordan-Hare in 2013 came against which team?
Georgia (2013)
A 73-yard tipped TD on 4th-and-18 came two weeks before the Kick Six.
Alabama beat which unbeaten team 42-14 for the 2012 season title?
Notre Dame (2013)
Notre Dame had gone 12-0.
Which redshirt freshman won the 2013 Heisman and the national title?
Jameis Winston (2013)
Florida State beat Auburn in the last BCS title game.
Which school won the first four-team College Football Playoff, after the 2014 season?
Ohio State (2015)
Third-string QB Cardale Jones started all three postseason games.
Michigan State beat Michigan in 2015 on a botched punt returned for a TD by whom?
Jalen Watts-Jackson (2015)
There were 10 seconds left.
Christian McCaffrey set the single-season all-purpose yards record in 2015, breaking whose mark?
Barry Sanders (2015)
McCaffrey had 3,864 all-purpose yards for Stanford.
Who won the 2016 Heisman for Louisville?
Lamar Jackson (2016)
At 19, he was the youngest winner.
Who caught Deshaun Watson's title-winning TD with one second left against Alabama?
Hunter Renfrow (2017)
The walk-on receiver won it for Clemson 35-31.
Tua Tagovailoa's 2nd-and-26 overtime TD in the 2018 title game went to whom?
DeVonta Smith (2018)
Tua had come in for Jalen Hurts at halftime against Georgia.
UCF claimed a 2017 national title after an unbeaten season capped by beating whom in the Peach Bowl?
Auburn (2018)
UCF held a parade and hung a banner, though no major poll ranked them first.
Kyler Murray won the 2018 Heisman after being drafted by which MLB team?
Oakland Athletics (2018)
He chose football and went first overall in the NFL draft.
Georgia beat which team in double overtime in the January 2018 Rose Bowl?
Oklahoma (2018)
It was the highest scoring Rose Bowl ever.
How many TD passes did Joe Burrow throw in 2019, an FBS record?
60 (2019)
LSU went 15-0. Burrow had transferred from Ohio State.
Jalen Hurts transferred from Alabama to which school?
Oklahoma (2019)
He finished second in the Heisman to Joe Burrow.
Clemson beat Alabama by what score for the 2018 season title?
44-16 (2019)
Freshman Trevor Lawrence threw three TDs.
Minnesota's 2019 upset win in Minneapolis came against which top-five team?
Penn State (2019)
The Gophers finished 11-2 and beat Auburn in the Outback Bowl.
Before Auburn, Cam Newton played at Florida and which junior college?
Blinn College (2010)
He won the Heisman and national title at Auburn in 2010.
Who passed Ron Dayne in 2016 for the FBS career rushing record?
Donnel Pumphrey (2016)
Pumphrey played for San Diego State.
Baker Mayfield first walked on at which school before transferring to Oklahoma?
Texas Tech (2017)
He won the Heisman at Oklahoma in 2017.