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Ndamukong Suh Might Actually Win That One Award

Dec 8, 2009, 10:00 PM UTC

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â†µâ†µHeisman votes continue to roll in and as they’re announced StiffArmTrophy.com compiles them and projects a winner based on a complicated system that’s been pretty darn accurate over the past seven years. This year it’s in for a test, though, as the conference championship games reconfigured everyone’s ballots and knocked the quarterbacks out of the running.â†µ

â†µâ†µSurprisingly, Nebraska terror beast Ndamukong Suh is currently leading with about 10% of the ballots accounted for: â†µ

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name	first	second	third	ballots	points	Projected	Proj%
M Ingram	33	43	26	102	211	1151	41.4%
T Gerhart	35	33	27	95	198	1104	39.7%
N Suh	53	21	22	96	223	1034	37.2%
C McCoy	22	29	30	81	154	869	31.3%
T Tebow	9	7	16	32	57	338	12.2%

â†µâ†µThe lead isn’t by much and the complicated but accurate projection system has him slipping behind the two tailbacks by the time it’s all over. Still, it’s unusually aware of the Heisman to even have Suh in contention. I guess all it takes are 4.5 sacks in a nationally televised conference championship game in which you are competitive despite the offense not scoring a touchdown. Defensive tackles should note this for future campaigns.â†µ

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â†µSuh is hurt by all the dips in his region voting for McCoy despite the clear indication who was a more impactful player this last weekend. â†µOh, and this guy who voted before the championship games: â†µ

â†µâ†µâ‡¥â†µâ‡¥Just cast my Heisman Trophy ballot, and voted for Texas’ Colt McCoy, Florida’s Tim Tebow and Stanford’s Toby Gerhart, in that order. â†µâ‡¥

â†µâ†µâ†µGood work, dude. All the regret in the world won’t change your vote, which is one of about 10 percent that was turned in before Suh finished his reign of destruction against McCoy and Texas. Is there any plausible explanation for doing this? Voting is now done “electronically”—ie, email exists—so folks from the Long Beach Press Telegram don’t have to risk having their vote lost by the Pony Express. Chances are you can risk the wait.â†µ

â†µâ†µIf Suh loses narrowly because a big chunk of the voters didn’t bother to wait for all the information to come in, the Heisman committee should issue him the addresses of everyone who voted before Dec. 5 so visit each befuddled journalist to explain that his name means “House of Spears” and that they are about to find out how apt that is. Ask Colt McCoy how fun that will be.â†µ

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