My Heisman Ballot

My Heisman Ballot: 1) Ingram, 2) Gerhart, 3) Suh, 4) Tebow, 5) McCoy I know that all of you Texas lovers are going to freak out, so give me a chance to explain my picks. I picked Ingram #1 for a variety of reasons. 1) He plays in the toughest conference in college football, and he still rushed for 6.2 yards per carry. That number alone is ridiculous. 2) In the biggest game of the year, and the biggest of his career, he was awesome. Not to mention that game was against the #1 defense in the country, with a ton of soon to be NFL players, and that didn't stop him from dominating. 3) Without him Alabama is not in the title game. 4) The Heisman is supposed to be for the most outstanding player, to me, that was Ingram. I picked Gerhart #2. He was amazing all year long.The problem for Gerhart is that Stanford plays in the Pac-10, which is generally not looked on as favorably as the SEC or the Big 12. He had 26 rushing touchdowns, and he only had 2 games were he was held under 100 yards, and one of those games he had 96. He is the only reason that Stanford was any good this year, and in the big games he dominated. I picked Suh #3. The argument could be made that he deserves to be #1, and I feel like when it mattered he was awesome, many times throughout the year he was incredible. However, he still only ended up with 12 sacks in 13 games. 4.5 of those sacks came in the Big 12 championship game though, and they came against one of the best offensive lines in the country. Without that Big 12 Championship game he doesn't even get invited. I picked Tebow #4 and McCoy #5. Now before all of you crazy people start threatening my life and mocking my sanity let me explain. I believe that Tebow and McCoy both had mediocre years. You can't just make it about the numbers either, because McCoy is a passing qb and Tebow is a hybrid between a giant fullback and and a qb. That being said, Tebow had a better quarterback rating than McCoy (106-100). McCoy has more passing yards and touchdowns, but he also threw the ball a lot more, he had more attempts and interceptions than Tebow. Neither McCoy's nor Tebow's numbers are anywhere close to where they were last year, and they didn't win the award last year with MUCH better numbers. Neither of them deserves the award, and I don't think that either should have been invited. Neither of them were good in the biggest games of the year, the Big 12 Championship game and the SEC Championship game, but Tebow was better. That is saying something, because he didn't look very good at all, and Alabama's D dominated the game. BUT, McCoy was terrible in the Championship. Granted, he did spend most of the game on his butt, but when he had time he still had a very hard time hitting the open man. AND if it weren't for the gracious Big 12 referees at the end of the game, he could have single handedly lost the game by his poor decision. In my opinion they were both invited to the Heisman ceremony because they have each had fantastic careers. McCoy has more wins that any starting qb in Division 1 history, and Tebow is considered by many to be one of the greatest college football players of all time. So, they are both incredible players who had mediocre years. They were both invited to the Heisman ceremony, and therefore the only thing I can think is that they both lead great teams this year and they have both had incredible careers, and their careers is the reason they were invited. Tebow (National Championship and a Heisman) has had a better career than McCoy, and that is why I ranked him 4th and McCoy 5th.