Tim Tebow Tops Hesiman Polls
September 24, 2009 by Mat Houchens
Filed under Football
Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) PostsDon’t get me wrong, I’m all about Tebow winning but I just don’t see the stats from last week to have him on top for the Heisman race. That being said, there is no clear leader after just 3 weeks. Jacory Harris for Miami has looked like a stud and his next two games against V Tech and Oklahoma will either promote him further or take him off the list completely.
One things for sure though, Tim Tebow must start having better games and stats to remain a contender for this years Heisman.
From Gainesville Sun
A traditional predictor of the most prestigious award in college football lives on.
In 1987, the Rocky Mountain News in Denver began a weekly Heisman Trophy poll. Every week during college football season the paper asked 10 Heisman voters, including representatives from each of the five Heisman balloting regions, to predict who would win the award. The Heisman poll was distributed nationally by Scripps Howard News Service.
In the last weekly poll of 1987 the voters mistakenly predicted Syracuse QB Don McPherson over eventual winner Notre Dame wideout Tim Brown. But the voters got it right 18 of the next 20 years before stumbling last season, when they picked Texas QB Colt McCoy over winner QB Sam Bradford of Oklahoma.
The Rocky ceased publication in February, but Scripps Howard News Service is continuing the tradition. And if the first poll of 2009 holds true, Heisman history will be made in New York City come December when the Downtown Athletic Club announces this year’s winner.
Florida QB Tim Tebow leads this year’s opening poll, released after three games so voters could get some actual semblance of what is happening this season. Tebow, the 2007 Heisman winner who finished third last year, earned five of 10 first-place votes for 42 total points. He could join Oho State’s Archie Griffin as the only player to win two Heismans.
Cal running back Jahvid Best, who failed to crack the top 10 in Heisman balloting last year, is second with 29 points including three first-place votes after a five-touchdown effort in a win at Minnesota last Saturday. McCoy is third. After suffering a shoulder injury in Oklahoma’s season-opening loss to BYU Sept. 5, Bradford has not played and was not named on a single ballot.
Voting tabulations are made on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis, with five points for a first-place vote, four points for second, etc. First-place votes are in parentheses.
The opening week’s poll, with statistics from last week:
Player, Position, School, Last Week, Points
1. Tim Tebow, QB, Florida, 24 carries, 76 yards, TD run, 14-of-19, 115 yards passing, int., 42 (5)
2. Jahvid Best, RB, California, 26 carries, 131 yards, 5 TDs, 29 (3)
3. Colt McCoy, QB, Texas, 24-of-34 passing, 205 yards, TD, 2 ints., 23, (1)
4. Jacory Harris, QB, Miami, 20-of-25 passing, 270 yards, 3 TDs, 13
5. Case Keenum, QB, Houston, Did not play
Others receiving votes: Notre Dame QB Jimmy Clausen, 6; Oklahoma State WR Dez Bryant, 5; Washington QB Jake Locker, 3; Cincinnati QB Tony Pike, 1.
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