One-time USC football great Reggie Bush will again be known as a Heisman Trophy winner, regaining the college game's top honor after an improper benefits scandal tarnished his storied amateur career, officials said Wednesday.

The Trojans running back was named college football's best player in 2005, convincingly winning the vote over star quarterbacks of the time such as Texas' Vince Young, Bush's teammate Matt Leinart, Notre Dame's Brady Quinn and Penn State's Michael Robinson.

But five years later, that honor was taken away from Bush in the wake of allegations that his family received benefits from an agent while he was still a student-athlete at Southern Cal.