Heisman Watch

[Tengo Juego]

Currently, it's:

1. Toby Gerhart 39%
2. Mark Ingram 38%
2. Ndamukong Suh 38%
3. Colt McCoy 32%
4. Tim Tebow 13%

 

[Vinsane]

If I'm Alabama or Mark Ingram, I'm groaning the voters.

 

[Woy]

Good, hopefully Gerhart gets it.

 

[Tengo Juego]

Suh takes the lead. Gerhart and Ingram right behind.

 

[Archer]

Suh

 

[Senser81]

You can't spell "Uh, Heisman" without Suh!

 

[Archer]

Links for anybody wondering where he's getting the info

http://www.stiffarmtrophy.com/2009/...tml?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Twitter - there's a twitter feed just made up of those able to vote. They are announcing their votes through there.

http://twitter.com/stiffarmtrophy/heisman-voters

 

[Tengo Juego]

Links for anybody wondering where he's getting the info

http://www.stiffarmtrophy.com/2009/...tml?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Twitter - there's a twitter feed just made up of those able to vote. They are announcing their votes through there.

http://twitter.com/stiffarmtrophy/heisman-voters

I hope their streak of predictions is broken by Suh winning the Heisman.

 

[Tengo Juego]

Interesting...

For years now, I've been talking about the regional bias in the Heisman Trophy balloting. If you haven't read it yet, dig into the item I wrote in 2003 about the structural regional bias that exists.

It's not as simple as East Coast voters not staying up late to watch evening games in the Pacific timezone. It's not as simple as Southern voters thinking the Pac-10 is soft. There's always been - and always will be - a certain amount of regional favoritism in the voting; whether deliberate or accidental.

Rather, the Heisman Trust has simply shortchanged the West in terms of the number of votes. Here's an easy and crystal clear example. This year, we learned that the state of Alabama has 24 media voters. Last year, I learned that Oregon (where I live) has 10 media voters.

Here's the rub: According to the 2007 Census estimate, Alabama has 4.58 million residents. Oregon has 3.69 million residents.

So, Alabama has one Heisman voter for every 191,000 people. Oregon has one voter for every 369,000 people. Alabama is 1.25 times the size of Oregon, but has 2.4 times as many votes.

That, in a nutshell, is structural regional bias. And it should be fixed.

 

[Leftwich]

I would love to see Suh win the heisman but defenders never get the trophy...

Ingram will likely win the award.

 

[Senser81]

Interesting...

Doesn't make any sense. China has way more people than Oregon, and they have even less voters than Oregon!

Oregon - U of Oregon, Oregon State

Alabama - U of Alabama, Auburn, Troy, UAB



So, in reality, Alabama should have twice as many voters as Oregon, because they have twice as many D-1 football schools.

 

[ram29jackson]

Links for anybody wondering where he's getting the info

http://www.stiffarmtrophy.com/2009/...tml?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Twitter - there's a twitter feed just made up of those able to vote. They are announcing their votes through there.

http://twitter.com/stiffarmtrophy/heisman-voters

LOL this is cool but also a bunch of crap. Kind of blows the whole awards show gig.

 

[Sportsbuck]

If Suh wins it it will be the greatest Heisman vote in my lifetime.

 

[Tengo Juego]

Gerhart just took the lead.

 

[Dan The Man]

CJ Spiller got fucked over.

 

[ThunderHorse]

as long as that Faggot McCoy doesn't win it I'm happy.

Fuck Texas

 

[stevsta]

im surprised mccoy is still top 5 especially after his performance against nebraska

 

[Tengo Juego]

im surprised mccoy is still top 5 especially after his performance against nebraska

:smh: McCoy is way too close to the top 3 guys. WAAAY too close.

Updated the list. Still the same order, but the gap is very tight now.

 

[Sharkweather]

Lol at Tebow going to New York to set the record for most appearances at the ceremony, when he is clearly getting dominated in the votes.

 

[Bear Pand]

Yeah why did Tebow even get an invite?