Voting For The Sports Blog Heisman Leaves Out Two Big Names

by ccmachine on Dec 9, 2009 2:16 PM CST in Football

Texas offensive line plays paper, rock, scissors in the huddle to see who has to try and block Suh on this next play.

Last year sports bloggers collectively voted to award the first annual Sports Blogger's Heisman Trophy to (gulp!) Tim Tebow. Now once again we face the challenge of selecting one man from a handful of players to be recognized as the best college football player in the nation. Like the actual Heisman voting, points are awarded for first, second and third place votes. Here's my attempt at explaining my selections.

1. Ndamukong Suh, DT Nebraska - On a day where "Heisman Frontrunners" Colt McCoy and Tim Tebow were supposed to make their final statements of deserving the hardware it was Suh who stole the show and produced the most dominating performance college football fans have seen on national television in a long time. For the season Suh has 82 tackles, 23 tackles for loss, 12 sacks, 1 interception, 10 pass breakups, 24 quarterback hurries, 1 forced fumble and 3 blocked kicks.

2. Mark Ingram, RB Alabama - Like Suh, I had Ingram further down on my list until his performance last Saturday where he gave the second most impressive performance of the day. Against Florida he averaged 4 yards per carry on his way to 113 rushing yards and 3 touchdowns. You can also add 76 receiving yards to his tally and for the season he's been even more impressive with 1,542 rushing yards (6.2 YPC) and 15 rushing touchdowns.

3. Toby Gerhart, RB Stanford - He's been the workhorse for the Cardinal this season with 311 carries for 1,736 yards (5.6 YPC) and 26 rushing touchdowns. Unfortunately he's a bit overshadowed by not being able to participate in a conference championship game but his body of work in the regular season is impressive enough on its own.

Obviously Tim Tebow and Colt McCoy are missing from my list and as many will claim bias in leaving them off we really could debate if they deserve to be on the list or not until the end of time. At the end of the day their seasons weren't as impressive as these three and since the Heisman Trophy is not a lifetime achievement award but rather an award given to the most outstanding football player in a single season this was the result of the process. Thoughts?

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i agree with your top 3, just not in that order

1. gerhart, 2. suh, 3. ingram

i think ingram is getting too much credit, he’s great no doubt, but gerhart and suh are the faces of their teams. nebraska and stanford would have been far worse off if they would have lost their star as opposed to bama.

on a seperate note, i think colt is getting unfairly punished for his game vs nebraska. of the 3 pics, 2 werent his fault. not really his fault that he got sacked every other play either. with that said, even if he had a stellar performance, i dont think he deserved the heisman. i still think gerhart has shown the most throughout the season

by wishiwasalonghorn on Dec 9, 2009 4:24 PM CST reply actions

Like I said in the post

I didn’t put McCoy in the top three because of his performance Saturday night but because the top three overall were more impressive than McCoy and Tebow.

by ccmachine on Dec 9, 2009 5:02 PM CST up reply actions

Suh was the best football player in the country all year. Ingram will win it because it is going to go to an offensive player. Suh deserves it though.

by miketag on Dec 10, 2009 2:04 AM CST reply actions

all 3 deserve it

But Gerhart has been the most consistent. And he literally is the greatness behind Stanford. Bama and Nebraska would still be good without Ingram and Suh.

by dani305 on Dec 10, 2009 3:53 AM CST reply actions

Gerhart

Sub, Ingram.

I haven
t seen Gerhart play at all, just read about him but his numbers are outstanding. They remind me of Steve Owens numbers. Suh can dominate a game and have a major impact on the outcome. Gerhart’s numbers indicate that he cand do the same as well. Ingram is an outstanding player as well but I don’t see him as controlling the game as much as the other two. Any of these three players are deserving of this award.

by scarab on Dec 10, 2009 6:22 AM CST reply actions