Heismanpundit

In the end, we believe that the most important story of the college football season was the return of Jason White for a sixth season.
It had a chain effect on the season in many ways.
Besides the fact that it is rare for a Heisman winner to return after his junior season, it is (obviously) even [...]

We’ve posted before about the myth of teammates costing each other the Heisman.
This year, it may finally have happened. For the first time, the sum of two teammates’ votes would have surpassed the points of the winner. Had Adrian Peterson and Jason White combined their votes, it would have beaten Leinart by over [...]

Matt Leinart won a Heisman 25 games after stepping onto a college football field for the first time. Looking back at history, it seems to be the quickest-ever path to a Heisman.
USC has won 6 Heismans in the last 40 years. That means USC has won a Heisman every 6.67 years during [...]

The conventional wisdom out there might be that Adrian Peterson’s all-time best showing for a freshman (second) is a harbinger that a first-year player might win the trophy one day soon.
In reality, his second-place showing actually assures for the near future that no freshman will come close.
Here’s why:
Peterson has now set the bar so high [...]

Looks like the the Heismandments have survived for another year.
This was an especially difficult year to analyze the Heisman. Not only were there two great underclassman challengers, but there was also a potential repeat winner and a dark-horse in Alex Smith.
In the end, our analysis ended up being spot on the entire time and, [...]

Here’s our Heisman short list for 2005:
There’s these two:
Reggie Bush
Adrian Peterson
And the rest:
Chris Leak
Vince Young
Alex Smith
Maurice Drew
Brady Quinn
Leon Washington
Reggie McNeal
Drew Tate

We’ll be out the next couple days, as we’ll be in New York to attend the Heisman ceremony. Will try to post some thoughts on the road.
Our prediction still stands:
1. Matt Leinart
2. Adrian Peterson
3. Jason White
4. Reggie Bush
5. Alex Smith

Here’s a funny piece from ESPN Page 2 that has each of the five Heisman candidate’s ‘acceptance speeches’ for Saturday.
Too, too funny.

We’re not ‘Thorpepundit’ or ‘Bednarikpundit’, but here’s our thoughts on some of the awards that were handed out today:
Bednarik Award
(Presented to the nation’s best defensive player by the Maxwell Football Club).
Erasmus James, Wisconsin
Derrick Johnson, Texas
David Pollack, Georgia
The winner: David Pollack
Comment–We agree with this pick. This guy is the epitome of a tough, hard-nosed player [...]

In the new sections on the right, we catalogued our Top Candidate posts on a week-by-week basis.
The posts are divided up by month. You can read our Preseason list in the ‘September’ section and our latest list in the ‘December’ section.
The earliest posts are at the bottom of each section, the most recent at [...]