Weekend Wake Up: Ingram By Inches, KU Turns to Gill, Penn Punishes, Navy Stops Army

Ingram Grinds it Out. The Heisman isn’t really a sporting event, but it did produce a close race -- and some questionable decision-making -- last night. Mark Ingram won Alabama’s first-ever Heisman by the slimmest margin in Heisman history, but Ndamukong Suh finishing behind Colt McCoy a week after throwing him all over a field will burn some observers.

Turner Gill, Jayhawk. After either being rebuffed by or turning down Stanford’s Jim Harbaugh, Kansas will apparently hire Buffalo’s Turner Gill to fill the vacant head football coach position. (How weird must that be to read for Nebraska fans?)

Penn Much Mightier. BJ Penn continued to prove why he is the best in his weight class by a wide margin at UFC 107, retaining his lightweight title with a methodical destruction of Diego Sanchez. Tons more on this over at The Rumble.

Fleet Navy: “No, Army.” Navy beat Army 17-3 in a game that was both much closer and more lopsided than the score indicates: The Black Knights had chances to tie the game late in the fourth quarter, but were also held to under three yards per play and converted just three third-down conversions all day. Happiest about this? Rick Neuheisel, whose UCLA team slides into the bowl slot that Army could have claimed with a win.

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