The race is really heating up. The best of the Big 12 keep finding the endzone, Tim Tebow is back to his 2007 form, and Shonn Greene just ran over one of the best defenses in the nation. Tough call 1-5 but I'll give you my five in order.
The List
(Last week's rankings in parentheses)
1. (1) Graham Harrell (Sr. Texas Tech) -- Harrell has spent his last two weeks completely destroying top ten teams' secondaries. First it was Texas. Then last week, No. 9 Oklahoma State. Harrell threw for over 450 yards in each game with no interceptions. Last week he had 6 touchdown passes while he completed 40 of 50 passes. Harrell and Tech have the week off before another top ten match up. This time with Oklahoma.
2. (2) Sam Bradford (So. QB Oklahoma) -- Bradford has thrown for at least 3 touchdowns in his last 5 games. He has also accomplished this in 8 of his 10 games this year. In the other two games, Oklahoma blew out their competition by so much that Bradford didn't get a chance to put up as many (opponents were Baylor and Chattanooga and he threw for 2 touchdowns in each of those games). Last week Bradford had 4 touchdown passes and 1 touchdown run. He accumulated 320 yards through the air. Oklahoma has a week off before they square off with Texas Tech. Personally, I can't wait.
3. (3) Colt McCoy (Jr. QB Texas) -- McCoy had 5 touchdown passes last week against Baylor. His 2 interceptions hurt him a little bit and the unbelievable completion percentage he had earlier in the season has started to slip. But McCoy is still the leading rusher for the Longhorns. The lack of a running game makes every stat that McCoy puts up that much more impressive. McCoy and Texas need to have huge games in their last two of the season if they are going to play for the Big 12 title and possibly the national title.
4. (5) Michael Crabtree (So. WR Texas Tech) -- Crabtree is in the top five in the nation in receptions and receiving yards and he is leading college football in receiving touchdowns with 18. Crabtree had 8 catches for 89 yards and 3 touchdowns last week against OK State. That was his 13th straight game with at least 5 catches and a touchdown. He is now one game away from tying the record that is held by Larry Fitzgerald.
5. (NR) Shonn Greene (Jr. RB Iowa) -- I think that there are 3 guys that could be put as high as number 4 on this list right now. But this is a top five, not a top six. Therefore, Greene barely edges out Tim Tebow this week. Greene had his toughest test last Saturday against the best run defense the Big Ten had to offer and the 6th best overall defense in the country. Greene passed with flying colors. He had 117 yards and 2 touchdowns while leading his team to a thrilling upset victory over then No. 3 Penn State. This week Iowa and Greene take on the 91st ranked run defense in Purdue.
5. (NR) Shonn Greene (Jr. RB Iowa) -- I think that there are 3 guys that could be put as high as number 4 on this list right now. But this is a top five, not a top six. Therefore, Greene barely edges out Tim Tebow this week. Greene had his toughest test last Saturday against the best run defense the Big Ten had to offer and the 6th best overall defense in the country. Greene passed with flying colors. He had 117 yards and 2 touchdowns while leading his team to a thrilling upset victory over then No. 3 Penn State. This week Iowa and Greene take on the 91st ranked run defense in Purdue.
On the Outside Looking In
(4) Tim Tebow (Jr. QB Florida) -- I'm really not sure how he fell out of the top five this week. I feel that the upset victory and the stoutness of the defense Greene went up against made his game more impressive than what Tebow did, which was impressive, as well. Tebow completed only 12 passes, but netted 171 yards and 3 touchdowns. He also had his best rushing performance of the season posting 88 yards and 2 touchdowns against Vanderbilt. This week, Tebow faces a very good South Carolina defense.
Tim Hiller (Jr. QB Western Michigan) -- Hiller has been phenomenal this year. Not a lot of people have really heard of him, but after he led his team to a win over favored Illinois last Saturday, people hopefully will start talking. Hiller has 30 touchdowns this year and only 5 interceptions. Only Sam Bradford and Graham Harrell have a better touchdown to interception ratio.
Jeremy Maclin (So. WR Mizzou) -- Maclin has been too inconsistent this season to find a spot in the top five. He has had some incredible games though. Last week he had 8 catches for 118 yards and 2 touchdowns. He also carried the ball 4 times for 84 yards and another score. Maclin is leading the nation in total all-purpose yards. This week he takes on Iowa State who gave up 4 touchdowns to WR Dez Bryant of Oklahoma State two weeks ago.
2 comments:
As much as I think a player from Texas Tech deserves the Heisman as of right now. I think it will be extremely difficult for one of them to win it. It is going to be hard enough for one of them to win it considering they are in the same geographic region as Sam Bradford and Colt McCoy. A lot of those important votes are going to be split up amongst all of them that it will be hard for one to clearly pull away.
On top of that, it never helps when two guys from the same team are going after the same honor. That will split voters up as well.
So when you consider voters being split because of so many talented players coming from the Big XII south and two coming from the same team, I don't see either one coming away with it, although I think they should. The number of first place votes may just not all be there for either Harrell or Crabtree.
I have a feeling that this year's winner is going to come out on top in a very close race. As for who it is going to be...your guess is about as good as mine.
I actually have McCoy ahead of Bradford but otherwise my Heisman ballot looks the same.
Tebow is good, but Shonn Greene deserves better. It's plain bias that Tebow, or Maclin as ESPN has it, are ahead of him. Too much media hype.
I think Bradford could make a huge jump though if the Sooners make yet another TT quarterback look silly while Bradford puts up amazing numbers again.
It could be a high scoring game, but look for Harrell to potentially have 4 INTs. I'm thinking back to 2003 when (Cliff Kingsbury??) was QB and became the all-time leading passer in NCAA history.
He also had like 4-5 INTs in the game against OU.
Stoops just knows what to do against the Red Raiders defensively.
Yeah TT won last year, but we'll see.
Plus I wouldn't mind if this turned into a defensive struggle and both QBs do terrible. Better chances for Shonn Greene :p
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