Ashton Jeanty is set for a historic season for a running back, and the Boise State star thinks that should have been enough to push him to the Heisman Trophy ahead of Colorado’s two-way star Travis Hunter.

“I really felt like I should have taken the award, but kudos to Travis for the win,” Jeanty told reporters Saturday after becoming the Heisman runner-up. “But yeah, it’s that simple. Work harder, give harder.”

Hunter won the Heisman after receiving 552 first-place votes and 2,231 points. Jeanty finished second with 309 first-place votes and 2,017 points, giving her the narrowest margin of victory since 2009, when Alabama running back Mark Ingram edged out Stanford running back Toby Gerhart.

Jeanty has rushed for 2,497 yards this season and needs 132 in the College Football Playoff to break Barry Sanders’ single-season rushing record of 2,628 yards set at Oklahoma State in 1988.

The Broncos will face the winner of the SMU-Penn State game in the CFP quarterfinals at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl on Dec. 31.

Jeanty, who won the Maxwell Award as college football’s top player and the Doak Walker Award as the nation’s top running back on Thursday, said he was “100%” motivated by not winning the Heisman.

“There’s a lot more to come,” he told reporters. “This is not the end, this is just the beginning. So I have to do a lot more to get the things I want.”

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.