Heismanpundit

It’s time for the final Heisman Watch of the 2009 college football season.  This post will attempt to figure out the current state of the race and try to project the outcome of the vote.  This is certainly as challenging a Heisman race as I have covered in my six seasons of running this site. [...]

Now for the 14th–and penultimate–HP Heisman Watch of the 2009 season. With one week of games remaining, we finally have clarity in this race.  One player is now the overwhelming favorite to capture this year’s Heisman Trophy, though he’s been the leader in this watch for 12 of the past 13 weeks.  1. Colt McCoy, Texas–HP’s [...]

The Heisman usually goes to the player who best represents the spirit of a given season, the one who captures the zeitgeist of what has transpired.   Naturally, we tend to want to anoint that player who has been the most exciting, or the most dominating.   But the 2009 season hasn’t been exciting.  It hasn’t featured any dominant teams.  On the [...]

Here is the list of players who (right now) have the best chance of actually winning the Heisman: 1. Mark Ingram, Alabama–Ingram had another good game, rushing for 149 yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries against Mississippi State.  He’ll pad his stats some more against Chattanooga next Saturday, then will have a chance to clinch [...]

Here is my list of the candidates with the best chance of actually winning the Heisman.  1. Colt McCoy, Texas–McCoy is coming off a 470-yard outburst against UCF.  On the year, he is completing 73 percent of his passes for 2,447 yards, 17 touchdowns and 9 interceptions.  He is on pace to have 3,534 yards, [...]

Now for my weekly Heisman Watch.  This is my list of the players with the best chance of actually winning the Heisman.  It is a projection of how the race is most likely to take shape based on current information.  From what I see, there are only four players out there who can still win the [...]

The Heisman race is a mess, but one must soldier on.   Eventually, someone must take control. Here is my latest list of the players with the best chance of actually winning the Heisman Trophy.  This is not a predicted order of finish. 1. Colt McCoy, Texas–Preseason favorite McCoy is back on top of this list [...]

I don’t think Heisman voters know which way is up right now. What’s happening is the Heisman race is in the process of being ‘re-set’.  This happens when all–and I mean every one–of the established preseason and in-season favorites struggle statistically or suffer major blows to their candidacies.  The end result is that the Heisman electorate suddenly opens itself up to other possibilities.  They [...]

This has not been the Heisman race everyone thought it would be.  Thus far, the peformances by the top preseason contenders have been a bit underwhelming.  I believe that October will reveal the eventual winner, but there is also a chance the race will be re-set (a concept I discuss here) and that some new candidates [...]

We are five weeks in and right now I believe there are only four players left who can actually win the Heisman in the current environment.  I say ‘current’ because there is one circumstance in which the race could be thrown wide open to all comers again.  Namely, if every one of the remaining four candidates mess [...]