Based on brilliance of performance (relative to the competition) in the year they won:
1. Tim Tebow, 2007
2. Reggie Bush, 2005
3. Sam Bradford, 2008
4. Matt Leinart, 2004
5. Troy Smith, 2006
6. Carson Palmer, 2002
7. Jason White, 2003
8. Chris Weinke, 2000
9. Mark Ingram, 2009
10. Eric Crouch, 2001
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jeff goble
That’a ok Mark Ingram’s second Heisman performance will yop next decades list.
jeff goble
Duh! top i meant i can’t afford a proofreader
Mike
Chris Weinke? Wasn’t he like 40? And FSU never played anybody!
Troy Smith?! The 41 to 14 beating they took from Florida tells us all we need to know about the “level of competition” he faced.
How many of the top defenses did either of them face (add Matt Leinart to the list for that matter)?
Palmer and Ingram should be bumped up.
rob
Seriously Chris Weinke i saw the orange bowl as did everybody else…he sucked.
Anonymous
Vince Young has to be first……..oh wait, he was robbed.
Hands down the only player over the past decade that could and did single handley win a game!
Top 5 College player in history.
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Ted
How can Reggie Bush possibly be #2 on this list? Is that how far the Heisman has fallen? A guy who isn’t even on the field on his team’s most important offensive play of the game(4th and 2) who also cost his team with turnovers (a certain lateral on a 40 yard screen play) who gets flat out BEAT by the guy who came in second to him (467 total yards 3 td’s and the W, 41-38), if he wasn’t close to the best player the year he won it, how can he be the 2nd best Heisman winner of the decade, the award has become a joke. All he did was get some nice runs against Fresno St. FRESNO STATE!?!?!?!? And Bradford? He stole the Heisman from someone who beat him on a neutral field 45-35. He got sacked something like 8 times the ENTIRE YEAR. If the QB who had problems in the big12 title game had that O-Line, they would have won by 30. Any decent QB can pick apart defenses if they are given that MUCH time to throw the football. This list is a joke, 2 out of the 3 top winners of the decade didn’t even deserve to win the Heisman.
Ted
A guy who isn’t even on the field on his team’s most important offensive play of the game(4th and 2).
Sorry meant to say offensive play of the SEASON.
rob
White, Weinke, and Palmer are below Crouch and Ingram.
Crouch was a better college football player than everybody gives hiom credit for he was a decent QB passing out of the option which is where he blew up people. He was just like Jamelle Holloway tiny and fast.