Heismanpundit

The bowls are so hard to predict.  Sometimes the teams that show up are completely different than the teams you saw in the regular season.  But, here goes: Missouri 49, Northwestern 27 (Missou -13) Maryland 24, Nevada 20 (Maryland +2.5) Oklahoma State 38, Oregon 35 (OSU -2.5) Rice 31, Western Michigan 17 (Rice -3) Houston [...]

It’s not too often that a player from a school without a whole lot of Heisman tradition can make a real, legitimate run at the trophy. Cal’s Jahvid Best has a chance to do just that in 2009. The true sophomore finished with 1,580 yards and 15 touchdowns this year while averaging a nation-best 8.1 [...]

A lot of people didn’t like the hire of Gene Chizik at Auburn, but he went ahead and scored a coup by getting Gus Malzahn away from Tulsa.   That move pretty much assures Auburn will be on the cutting edge of offensive football in the coming years, which is exactly what it needed going head-to-head [...]

Thanks to everyone for another great season.  Hope you and yours stay safe and enjoy the holiday season. I’ll be back after Christmas with a look at the big bowl games and some of the internal data from the Heisman race. Peace, HP

It’s amazing how athletic directors at major universities just don’t do their homework when it comes to their most important task:  hiring, retaining and firing coaches.  We’ve already seen ridiculous hires this offseason like Lane Kiffin at Tennessee and Steve Sarkisian at Washington, but now it appears that Arizona’s 31-21 upset of BYU has enabled [...]

We did the 2008 HP All-American Offense team on Friday, now the defense: Defensive Ends 1st team–Brian Orakpo, Texas; Aaron Maybin, Penn State 2nd team–Brandon Graham, Michigan; Jerry Hughes, TCU 3rd team–Clay Matthews, USC; Nick Reed, Oregon Orakpo and Maybin wreaked havoc all year long for two teams that just missed out on the national [...]

It’s time for the fifth edition of the very prestigious HP All-American squad.  First, the offense: Quarterback 1st team–Colt McCoy, Texas 2nd team–Sam Bradford, Oklahoma 3rd team–Tim Tebow, Florida This was a very tough choice, obviously.  But I thought McCoy was the best all-around quarterback in 2008 Running Back 1st team–Kendall Hunter, Oklahoma State 2nd [...]

I just finished watching Mel Kiper say that Tim Tebow could be another Frank Wycheck and that the Florida QB should move to H-back. Of course, that’s just absurd. Why is the NFL mentality so blind when it comes to mobile quarterbacks? It’s not like Tebow can’t pass. It’s not like he doesn’t have the [...]

Again, it’s way early, but here’s a list of my front runners right now, with the assumption that Sam Bradford and Tim Tebow (among others) go pro. 1. Colt McCoy 2. Mark Sanchez 3. Terrelle Pryor 4. Jimmy Clausen 5. Daryll Clark 6. Jahvid Best 7. Kendall Hunter 8. Zac Robinson 9. LeSean McCoy 10. [...]

What’s going on… —Why are people so upset about Gene Chizik becoming Auburn’s coach? At least he was a college head coach before coming Auburn. If Charles Barkley wants to get riled up, he should be bitching about Lane Kiffin getting hired at Tennessee. —The Oklahoma rightfully rips Beano Cook for complaining about Tim Tebow [...]