I just got the final votes in for my last Heisman poll of the season. It projects Sam Bradford of Oklahoma to be the winner of the 2008 Heisman Trophy.
It’s going to be a close race and I wouldn’t be shocked if Colt McCoy and Tim Tebow swapped spots.
The Final Heismanpundit.com/Orlando Sentinel Heisman Poll, December 9, 2008 (first place votes in parentheses):
Sam Bradford, QB, Oklahoma–44 (6)
Tim Tebow, QB, Florida–38 (3)
Colt McCoy, QB, Texas–36 (1)
Graham Harrell, QB, Texas Tech–22
Michael Crabtree, WR, Texas Tech–5
Shonn Greene, RB, Iowa–4
LeSean McCoy, RB, Pittsburgh–1
The HeismanPundit.com/Orlando Sentinel Heisman Poll is made up of 10 Heisman voters from across the country. They vote for five players each week. Tabulations are made on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis, with five points awarded for a first-place vote, four points for a second-place vote and so on. Members of the panel include: Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel, Olin Buchanan of Rivals.com, Jenni Carlson of The Oklahoman, Tom Dienhart of Rivals.com, Bruce Feldman of ESPN.com, J.B. Morris of ESPN the Magazine, Austin Murphy of Sports Illustrated, B.J. Schecter of Sports Illustrated, Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated and Dick Weiss of the New York Daily News.
Chris Huston, owner of Heismanpundit.com, coordinates the weekly poll. Huston is a former assistant sports information director at USC who directed the successful Heisman campaigns of quarterbacks Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart
A CBSSports.com poll of 32 Heisman voters has Tebow in the lead over Bradford by 7. (http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/story/11161976)
A poll of 98 Heisman voters by the Gainesville Sun has Tebow and Bradford TIED at 194 points.
(http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20081209/NEWS/812100984/1090?Title=Heisman__Sooner_or_Gator_)
The SEC has faced 32 non major opponents while sporting a 5-11 record against the major college football opponent they have faced as a conference. ESPN fails to recognize Tebow’s date with the Citadel while including the game in his stats, go figure. Tim
Jenni Carlson of The Oklahoman? Interesting choice. I wonder who she voted for.
Tim Tebow has the worst numbers of just about everybody QB in the top 15(poll). I wish everyone would quit riding his jock. He’s decent at best and wasn’t even in the top 5(numbers wise) in the SEC. The fact that he’s there instead of graham Harrell is almost laughable.
PLEASE PEOPLE STOP MAKING HIM OUT TO BE MORE THAN WHAT HE IS A DECENT QUARTERBACK. I think he’s great but the fact that people are giving him more hype than he deserve overshadows his sub parr career.
Yeah, like poor Colt.