Your Heisman Finalists — Manziel, Te'o, Klein. Who wins? (poll)

Herschel Walker won the Heisman Trophy in his last college season.

 

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It used to be you needed to have a good junior (or in some cases sophomore season) to set yourself up for a Heisman run. Now we've had three straight years where the winner started the season as a virtual unknown.

 

The anti ND bias is alive and well. Te'o only split the midwest region votes with Manziel.

 

Nice story out of Kerrville.
http://dailytimes.com/manziel/article_e1938cb4-41ab-11e2-b54b-0019bb2963f4.html

 

A middle linebacker finishes a close second to a multi-threat quarterback with video game statistics and the signature victory of the college football season.

This might evidence bias. But for the linebacker's school, not in opposition to it.

 

Ignoring the fact that those stats came against mostly cupcakes and with two losses in which Johnny Football was pedestrian.

 

Vs. Mississippi State (8-4) and Alabama (12-1) in back-to-back games:

54-67, 564 yards, 2 TDs, 0 INTs
221 rushing yards, 2 TDs

But, all that is beside the point.

A middle linebacker finished second in the Heisman voting to a quarterback. A close second. The second-most votes for a runner-up of all time. Listed on more ballots than RG3 or Cam Newton.

And this evidences bias against his school?

 

Gun to my head, or a million dollars and I couldn't tell you who who the Heisman Trophy last season.

 

Yet you feel informed enough to comment on voting patterns.

 

Yep. Manziel won the Heisman because A&M beat 'Bama. They lose that game and he goes the way of every gaudy numbered player in college football who doesn't win every game and becomes a "system" quarterback.

If Bama wins that game, McCarron's a finalist, if not the winner, because the Heisman is the most overrated and over-hyped award in the sports world.

It has rarely been a reflection of college football's best player, just the best player from a power conference that regularly plays on national television.

It won't be a West Coast kid, unless he plays at USC. It will be a BCS school but not anyone from the Big East or ACC or any independent that isn't Notre Dame. And it won't be awarded to a school currently on probation. The school has to be in the top 20 and has at least nine wins. It won't be a defensive player, or an offensive lineman, or tight end. It might be a receiver, be he has to return punts and kickoffs. It might be a running back, but it will more than likely be a quarterback.

Catchy nicknames also help. And I'm glad no one pulled the trigger because that made me remember RGIII.