What If the Heisman Trophy Actually Went to College Football’s Most Outstanding Player?

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What If The Heisman Trophy Actually Went to College Football’s Most Outstanding Player?

Let’s pretend, for a moment, that we live in an alternate reality. Up is down, black is white, Isiah Thomas could successfully run a child’s lemonade stand without the lemons demanding a trade (or the sugar suing for sexual harassment), Notre Dame is a football school.

And the Heisman Trophy goes to the best player in football.

Radical, ain’t it?

Ostensibly, the trophy is awarded to the “most outstanding player in college football,” in the words of the Heisman’s official site. In reality, its selection has become one of sports’ unwritten rules, annually ending up in the hands of the best quarterback or running back on a highly ranked team. So, somewhere in the rush to drool over counting stats, what should be college football’s answer to the best actor Oscar, has become the equivalent of the biggest popcorn movie star.

(The award itself is named after former Georgia Tech coach John Heisman, but we suggest a more apt name would be the Weis, awarded to the player who’s on television and talked about the most without great attention to his actual level of ability).

Heisman Trophy Watch – Week 15

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Heisman Trophy Watch – Week 15

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Sam Bradford added another Heisman-worthy performance to his resume against Oklahoma State last week.  The Oklahoma quarterback threw for 370 yards on 30 of 44 (68.2%) completions and 4 touchdowns, didn’t throw a pick, and added a TD on the ground.  He’s pulled away from the rest of the competition in terms off passing touchdowns.  His 4 scores through the air give him 46 passing touchdowns on the season 5 more than Texas Tech’s Graham Harrell and 14 more than Texas’s Colt McCoy.  Bradford is third in the FBS in total passing yards with 4,080 (340 per game).  He’s also led the Sooners on one of the best runs in the country, a streak that includes 4 straight games of scoring 60+ points where the Sooners have won by an average of 34 points.  Bradford has been consistently great for Oklahoma.  His worst game?  A 28-39, 387 passing yards, 5 touchdown performance against Texas, if only because his 2 interceptions probably cost the Sooners the game.  The Sooners and Bradford look to stay hot this week in the Big 12 Championship against Missouri.  The Sooners are 16.5 point favorites.  Is there really any doubt that Bradford leads his team to a victory?

Texas quarterback, Colt McCoy keeps leading his team to wins.  The only thing that hurts him is that his stats, other than his FBS-best 77.6 completion percentage, don’t stack up that well against Bradford’s (though you could argue that owns the most important stat: a head to head win over Bradford and the Sooners).  By normal standards, however, Colt is having a great season.  He’s thrown for 3,445 yards, 32 TDs, and just 7 interceptions.  McCoy has also been dangerous scrambling out of the pocket.  His 575 yards rushing are more than Florida’s Tim Tebow, and the Texas QB has added 10 touchdowns on the ground.  If the Heisman Trophy were meant for college football’s most valuable player to their team, you could make a strong argument that McCoy deserves the trophy as there probably isn’t a single Heisman candidate that means more to his team.  The award, however, is supposed to go to the “best” college football player and, for now, that distinction belongs to Sam Bradford.  Sportsbook.com disagrees!  Colt McCoy is currently their favorite to win the Heisman Trophy at even odds.

Quarterbacks Dominate Top 10 Finalists for NCAA Division III Gagliardi Trophy

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Quarterbacks Dominate Top 10 Finalists for NCAA Division III Gagliardi Trophy

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Nine quarterbacks and one running back are finalists for the Gagliardi Trophy, awarded each year to honor the outstanding NCAA Division III football player. Sponsored by Jostens and the Saint John’s University, Minnesota, J-Club, the Gagliardi Trophy recognizes excellence in athletics, academics and community service.

The winner of the Gagliardi Trophy is selected by a national selection committee comprised of coaches, sports writers, community leaders and former Division III student-athletes enshrined in the National Collegiate Football Hall of Fame. This will be the second year fans will be able to rank the 10 finalists and cast an electronic ballot that collectively will be added to the 35 votes of the national selection committee. Ballots may be cast immediately through 12:00 p.m. CST on Tuesday, December 9 at http://www.d3football.com. Fans may only vote one time.

The trophy is named for Saint John’s University head football coach John Gagliardi, the first active head coach to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame (Class of 2006) and the winningest coach in college football history with a record of 461-125-11 (.781). Gagliardi set the all-time win record on November 8, 2003.