The Heisman race is going down to the wire and I’m starting to see some real separation from top down.
My top pick is still Colt McCoy. He led unbeaten Texas to a 51-20 win over Kansas last week while throwing for 398 yards and 4 TD’s. As the season has gone on, he’s continued to get better and better. Not that he was a slouch to begin with.
His completion percentage is now at 73 percent and his team scores on 50 percent of the possessions he’s on the field. He’s now won 43 games at the helm of the Longhorns and that number will rise. He has the Texas offense humming at the time of year it needs to be. It’s certainly the best of the top three ranked teams. I know it’s not a career award, but he’s also been one of the best three players in the country three years running.
Toby Gerhart’s Stanford team lost a heartbreaker to Cal, but he continues to win over voters. Against a Bears team that was allowing 104 yards per game on the ground, he had 136 yards, 4 touchdowns and a 6.8 yard per carry average. He now has over fifteen hundred yards and 23 TD’s on the season and was named a finalist for the Doak Walker Award this week.
Mark Ingram can’t be blamed for the schedule, but his 102 yards in a half against Chattanooga didn’t help him. He padded his stats, but that team wasn’t even competitive against the Tide. This week he’ll be the focus of arch rival Auburn’s defense, but the Tigers only rank 88th in stopping the run, so his numbers should be good.
Tim Tebow is in the same boat as Ingram. His team won big against a weak non-conference opponent in Florida International. He had 102 yards rushing, including a career long 55 yard TD run against the fourth worst rushing defense in the country. He passed for 225 yards and a pair of TD’s against the third worst total defense in the country. He padded his stats and his team won, but they didn’t play anybody.
My top three Heisman picks this week with McCoy starting to pull away are McCoy, Gerhart, Ingram.
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