Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was invited for a record third time to the Heisman Trophy ceremony set to take place at 8 p.m. ET this Saturday in New York.
Tebow and his Gators fell to the Crimson Tide 32-13 in the SEC championship game as No.1 Florida played No.2 Alabama. Tebow is looking to become the second player to win two Heisman’s since Ohio States’ Archie Griffin in 1974-75. The Gator quarterback threw for 2,413 yards with 18 touchdowns and ran for 859 yards and 13 touchdowns.
Joining Tebow is Texas quarterback Colt McCoy, Stanford running back Toby Gerhart,
Alabama running back Mark Ingram, and Nebraska defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh.
McCoy has led the Longhorns to a Big 12 title and a spot in the BCS national championship against Alabama after nearly escaping an upset of the Cornhuskers last Saturday. McCoy has thrown for 3,512 yards with 27 touchdowns and 12 interceptions and ran for 348 yards and three scores.
Ingram will look to become the first Heisman Trophy winner in Alabama football history. The Crimson Tide running back is a hot pick coming off a 100-yard three touchdown game against Florida in the SEC title game as Alabama will meet Texas in the National Championship. The sophomore standout set a single season school rushing record (1,542 yards) in the victory over Florida in the SEC title game as he passed Bobby Humphrey. The only other sophomore to win the Heisman was Tebow back in 2007. Ingram rushed for 15 touchdowns and had 330 receiving yards with three scores.
Gerhart led Stanford to an 8-4 season including blowout victories over Pac 10 foes USC and Oregon. Gerhart is also a strong performer in the classroom as he is a road scholar and is taking 21 credits this semester. The Cardinal running back ran for a NCAA best 1,736 yards and 26 touchdowns.
Nebraska’s Suh is the first defensive player to be a finalist since Charles Woodson in 1997. Woodson was the first full-time defensive player to win the Heisman. Suh recorded 4.5 sacks in the Big 12 championship game against Texas. On the season, Suh has a NCAA-third best 12 sacks and is No.1 on most people’s draft boards.
Tebow and McCoy both struggled only putting up 13 points each over “championship weekend”. The hot vote right now is for Ingram. But if you’re going to vote for a running back, wouldn’t you vote for the guy who led the NCAA in rushing yards and touchdowns? And as for Suh, he is the best player in the nation, but it took for Charles Woodson to be on a national championship team before he won the Heisman, and the Cornhuskers fall way short of that at 9-4. If I had a vote, it’d go to Toby Gerhart.
Monday, December 7, 2009
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Although I know absolutely nothing about sports, I am kind of interested in who wins the Heisman this year. Being a graduate of Grand Blanc, I have known Mark Ingram since middle school. He left GB our senior year for Southwestern, hoping to get scouted. He is an amazing football player as well as a really cool person. Here's to hoping he takes one for Alabama, and our hometown.
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