65° CLEAR, 15 reasons Tebow will win Heisman
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 7:51 p.m.
1. Tim Tebow has run for more touchdowns in a season than Heisman-winning running backs Herschel Walker, clockwise from top left, Bo Jackson, George Rogers and Archie Griffin the year (in Griffin's case in either year) they won the award.
2. If Chase Daniel gets Missouri to a national championship game, the award tends to go to the best player on the best team.
3. The sophomore bigotry is out there. Some voters feel like Tebow will win it next year or the next. They tend to block Adrian Peterson and Rex Grossman out of their memories.
4. If it goes to the most valuable player, Dennis Dixon had Oregon on the verge of a national title before suffering an injury. Since then, the Ducks have been inept on offense.
5. Tebow's team lost three games. The last Heisman winner to be on a three-loss team was Risky Ricky Williams nine years ago and he didn't face a whole lot of competition.
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2. Tebow was the quarterback for 30 plays against Florida State with a displaced fracture in his non-throwing hand. He was 9-of-13 for 123 yards and a touchdown and also ran six times with a broken hand.
3. No player in the long history of Div. 1-A college football has rushed for 20 touchdowns and thrown for 20 touchdowns, and no quarterback has ever run for more touchdowns in a season.
4. Because Danny Wuerffel is voting for him. Hey, Wuerffel may not have turned into a great pro quarterback but you have to respect his judgment.
5. Tebow played the second half of the season with a shoulder contusion which required him to receive a shot before each game. Think of his numbers had he been completely healthy.
6. Arkansas and Florida played six common opponents. In those games, Tebow accounted for 25 touchdowns. In those games, Razorback running back Darren McFadden accounted for seven.
7. Tebow is second in the nation behind Oklahoma freshman Sam Bradford in passing efficiency and has led Florida to the top spot in the country in third-down efficiency.
8. Tebow has more rushing touchdowns than McFadden, despite 110 fewer carries.
9. Andrew Meyer was misquoted when he was wrestling with police at the John Kerry speech. What he really said was, “Don't Tebow me, bro!”
10. Chase Daniel of Missouri has thrown for four more touchdowns than Tebow this season but has needed 178 more passes to get to that total. (Daniel has three rushing touchdowns).
11. Character? You want character? How about a missionary who spends much of his free time in hospitals talking to sick children?
12. Tebow has put up his numbers despite having his three big weapons — Andre Caldwell, Percy Harvin and Cornelius Ingram — missing significant time with injuries.
13. It's time to end the bigotry. Not voting for a player because of his age is 20th century thinking.
14. It's Titletown. If Florida can't win a national championship as a team, it should at least win one as an individual.
15. It has been more than a decade since an SEC player won the Heisman. If you put up his kind of numbers against America's best conference, that's long enough.
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