NEW YORK — It did not take long for Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney to make Deshaun Watson feel better following Saturday’s announcement that Alabama’s Derrick Henry won the 2015 Heisman Trophy.

The coach of the No. 1 ranked team in the country walked over to his quarterback and told him, “You’re still a winner.”

“He told me it’s hard, but let’s go get it all,” Watson said afterwards. “We will be back here next year. Nothing has changed. If I would have won nothing was going to change. He would still treat me the same and say the same things.”

Watson finished third in the Heisman Trophy race on Saturday. Henry won five of the six voting regions with Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey winning the far west. Watson only beat McCaffrey in the mid-Atlantic region.

Watson was named in the top 3 of 67.7 percent of all ballots. Henry was 86 percent and MaCaffrey earned 76.8 percent of the vote.

“Congrats to (Henry) he earned it,” Watson said. “That’s where the voters went, and he was the winner.”

Henry had 378 first place votes and 1,832 points. McCaffrey received 290 first place votes and 1,539 points, while Watson had 148 first place votes and 1,165 points. Watson’s total was the third best all-time by a Heisman Finalist who finished third.

Now Watson and No. 1 Clemson turn their attention to the Orange Bowl and No. 4 Oklahoma. The Tigers will play the Sooners in Miami at Sun Life Stadium on New Year’s Eve at 4 p.m.

“That was my main focus in the first place. This right here is another event that I was invited to and blessed to be here, but the real focus and the main goal is to win the national championship and that is still in front of us,” Watson said.

Never the one to lack confidence, Watson says he will be back in New York next year for the Heisman Trophy experience.

Watson, whose Tigers will play No. 4 Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Eve, led the ACC this year with 3,512 passing yards and 30 touchdowns. He also led all quarterbacks with 887 yards and 11 touchdowns.

His 11 rushing touchdowns led Clemson this year as he was also named the ACC Championship Game’s Most Valuable Player. He totaled 420 yards and was responsible for five touchdowns in Clemson’s 45-37 victory over North Carolina. Both of those marks were ACC Championship Game records.

Watson was named the recipient of the Davey O’Brien Award earlier this week, and was a first-team All-American selection by USA Today, as well as taking home ACC Player of the Year honors.

“I still have the same ambitions to be the best and try to be legendary. That’s my goal. We will just have to see about next year. Of course, I’m going to be back here next year, but right now we are going to focus on 2015 and try to finish out this year,” he said.