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Former American Press sportswriter Carl Dubois blogs about the games people play, in and out of sports, and the people you meet between and outside the lines.

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Heisman

Posted December 13, 2008 at 12:40 pm
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BATON ROUGE — Who you got? Sam Bradford? Tim Tebow? Colt McCoy?

We’ll find out the winner during the presentation show on ESPN beginning at 7 tonight.

I keep thinking of something CBS college football analyst and former NFL quarterback Gary Danielson said during a media teleconference before the SEC Championship Game when asked about Tebow’s “outside” shot at winning his second Heisman.

“I don’t think it’s outside,” Danielson said. “He’s one of two guys. He’s right there. If he has a big game in this game (Florida won 31-20, as you know now), you better have a great one against him. I’ve got to say the stats in the Big 12 are like pesos to me; they just don’t mean as much. Everybody’s got stats there. It is 300 pesos for half a gallon of milk.”

In other words, could the likes of Bradford, McCoy and other hot-shot Big 12 Conference quarterbacks put up those amazing statistics against SEC defenses? It’s true that the scores of SEC games this season more closely resembled those of WAC and Big 12 games of this and recent years, but I tend to agree with Danielson about his pesos analogy.

Not sure enough Heisman voters do to keep Bradford from winning it. Tebow was an afterthought in the conversation early, with the Big 12 guys far out in front, and I’m not sure his strong late-season play wasn’t too late to persuade a majority of voters he’s the most outstanding player in college football (which is what the ballot calls the player deserving of the Heisman).

So we’ll see you. What do you say?