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Heisman poll: McCoy edges Bradford in battle of Big 12 QBs

The Rocky

Published December 8, 2008 at 4:09 p.m.

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Poll

Who will win the Heisman Trophy?


The Rocky Mountain News’ Heisman Trophy poll, in its 22nd year, is the longest-running weekly Heisman ranking in the country. This is the final vote of the year, with the winner being announced Saturday. The final Rocky poll has correctly picked the Heisman winner in 18 of the previous 21 seasons.

Ten voters select five players each week. The 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.

Player, positionSchoolLast weekPoints
Colt McCoy, QBTexasDid not play42 (5)
Sam Bradford, QBOklahoma34-for-49 passing, 384 yards, 2 TDs41 (3)
Tim Tebow, QBFlorida14-for-22 passing, 216 yards, 2 TDs, 17 rushes, 57 yards34 (2)
Graham Harrell, QBTexas TechDid not play23
Shonn Greene, RBIowaDid not play5

Others receiving votes: Michael Crabtree (WR, Texas Tech), 3; Javon Ringer (RB, Michigan State), 1; LeSean McCoy (RB, Pittsburgh), 1.

Voters: Kirk Bohls, Austin (Texas) American-Statesman; Jimmy Burch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Dennis Dodd, CBSSports.com; Vahe

Gregorian, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Mike Griffith, The Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel; Michael Lewis, Salt Lake Tribune; Bernie Lincicome, Rocky Mountain News; John Lindsay, Scripps Howard News Service; Tom Luicci, The (Newark) Star-Ledger; John Rohde, The Oklahoman.

Comments

  • December 8, 2008

    5:24 p.m.

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    mikeyg writes:

    I'm quite certain that the same folks who atrociously voted OU & UF ahead of UT - several even making sure they excluded UT from consideration by indefensibly ranking them 5th - will stay true to form and screw over McCoy now that they see the outcome means UT might win something that's voted on.

    Harris Poll idiots and USA Today jealous coach voters have their heads so far up Bob Stoops' rear end they'll never let his sissy boy Sammy down by doing the right thing and voting for McCoy in the poll that counts.

    Up the BCS's and all of the pollsters butt's - they all blow just as bad as OU. The nation voter-types should trade in their pens for OU cheerleader skirts and pom-poms.

    Hook'em Horns, 2008 NCAA National Champion Texas Longhorns! (the game in Miami is a battle of pretenders, any hardware that comes out of there will forever have an asterisk next to it).

  • December 8, 2008

    6:48 p.m.

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    bdunaway writes:

    What is important is what happens on the field. Who wins on that special day, not who wins the next week or the week after that against other teams. Texas beat the #1 team in all phases of the game. Colt McCoy and his teammates out-played and out-hustled them. Stoops was out-coached again, and the children of the sooner nation were seen crying in the stands on national television, again. Now the sooners are showing their class by mocking the longhorns, thinking it is funny that they are in the championship game. Mocking not because they won a football game against Texas, but because there are coaches and writers who voted them ahead of the longhorns in the polls.

    These voters, some of whom have never even picked up a football and held it, do not honor the hard work that goes in to a team and its players when they overcome a quality oponent. If the voters feel that OU is so great then why not honor the only team to have beaten them soundly this year? That would be the Texas Longhorns who won on the field 45-35. OU may have won on paper and with computers, but NOT on the field where it counts. The longhorns won on the field and Colt McCoy played much better than Bradford. Respect and honor that.

  • December 8, 2008

    6:53 p.m.

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    FactChecker writes:

    Facts:
    McCoy shatters 10 year old NCAA record -
    77.6% shatters Daunte Culpepper's NCAA single-season record of 73.6% of his passes in 1998 which beat a record that stood for 15 years held by none other than the Hall of Fame's Steve Young of 71.3%.

    This is amazing for someone that was also the team's leading rusher with 576 rushing yards (200 yards more than the team's #2 rusher) and 10 rushing touchdowns.

    If Sam Bradford had played for Texas and McCoy for OU - Texas would have had little rushing game and would have probably lost 3 or 4 games and OU would be undefeated.

  • December 8, 2008

    8:47 p.m.

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    barnardp writes:

    Wow, I live in Utah and can hear the calfs bellowing from here. OU was there in the championship game because they soundly beat the Texas Tech Red Raiders, by 21 points, who beat Texas. Mack, Cry baby, Brown wanted to throw out the Red Raiders because they beat him and then wanted a head-to-head with OU. But why penalize OU because they beat TT so soundly? OU was the true winner in the tie breaker. There is no need for an asterisk by their Big 12 championship. Furthermore, there will not be an asterisk by their National Championship after they hang another 60 on Florida.

    Quit crying and go back to bed and nurse your bottle.

  • December 9, 2008

    3:52 p.m.

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    Masternav writes:

    - Number of conferences other than Big 12 who would have sent Oklahoma to the conference championship game under their tiebreaker rules: ZERO (Big 10 would have sent Tech, others Texas)
    - Wins by non-conference Division 1A (FBS) opponents: Texas 25, OK 21, Tech 8
    - Average margin of victory after lone loss through end of regular season: Texas 31, OK 29, Tech 7
    - Conditions of lone loss: Texas (away, night, last second), Oklahoma (neutral, day, double digit, falling behind), Tech (away, blowout loss)
    Yep, there was a true winner in the three-way tiebreaker, but not enough voters noticed how Stoops was running up the “style points” until his was the only game in town to watch in its time slot this past weekend. Running up the score got Oklahoma into the big game, but his most recent crass and petty display may cost Bradford the Heisman. It already cost him in this last Heisman poll. Too bad for him if that winds up being the case. Colt, Graham, Tim, and Sam are all outstanding young men as well as great quarterbacks.

  • December 9, 2008

    6 p.m.

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    oufannbigd writes:

    What amazes me the most, is that Mack is screaming this loudly. It was he that lead the charges to have the extra tie breaker in the big 12 rules. He, along with all the other coaches in the Big 12 were in complete agreement with the rules, and no one including the mighty Mack Brown had issues with the rules once they were completed!
    Now, after the season was in full swing, after seeing that there was a small chance that they might end up getting burned by the rules, and only then did Mack bring up an arguement and fight. THE RULES ARE THE RULES, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. It wasn't the human polls that hurt the Longhorns, it was Mack Brown himself. He set the schedule of teams that the UT program would face this year. If he had arranged a tougher schedule for the beginning of the season, the Longhorns would have wiped the Sooners in the BCS standings. But it was the stregnth of schedule that bit them in the butt. Again, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
    Yes, the Longhorns beat the Sooners, IN OCTOBER. The Red Raiders beat the Longhorns, and the Sooners beat the Red Raiders, but both of those were in the later part of the season. Which we all know the BCS awards late season wins with higher standings. It's been that way since the beginning of the BCS.
    Do I feel sorry for the Longhorns, yes, they had an amazing year and have a terrific quartback / wide reciever tandum. It has to be heartbreaking to get that close and not be able to play for the national championship. BUT, the rules are the rules. And the team, the Longhorn nation, and all the people whining and moaning can lay the blame on one person and one person only, MACK BROWN NOT BOB STOOPS. Stoops had a early schedule with 2 bowl bound teams that ended up high in the BCS rankings. Mack could have played TCU, they are in the same state and same backyard. But Mack looks down on the TCU and SMU programs acting like they aren't good enough for his program to play. Hopefully, he will learn from this nightmare and not make those same mistakes again. But whatever the case that maybe, do not take away from the amazing Tech and Sooner programs that also achieved greatness this year, and both should be reconized for doing so well, not just the Longhorns.
    So BOOMER SOONER DUDES to those that are crying in their friends arms and are whining to anyone that will hear them. Life goes on, get over it!