Mark Ingram, odds-on favorite to become the
University of Alabama's first Heisman Trophy winner:
To the winner go all the spoils and this 5-10, 215-pound sophomore back will be the one smiling at night's end this Saturday as he will win the Heisman and then have a shot to win it all in Pasadena -- doesn't get a heckuva lot better than that, right?
The spunky back entered last week's games as one of the co-favorites to win the Heisman and then busted free for 113 yards rushing and 76 yards receiving, along with three scores to help jettison the Crimson Tide past Florida in the aforementioned SEC Championship Game.
Ingram's rock-solid season had a late-year blip on the screen in that close-call 26-21 win at Auburn (16 carries for 30 yards rushing). But overall the numbers have a real Heisman Trophy feel to them.
He wound up rushing for 1,542 yards (averaging a hefty 6.2 yards a carry) with 15 touchdowns and Ingram added 30 pass receptions worth 322 yards and three scores.
Ingram's Heisman Odds are currently -350. Okay, he's no slam dunk to win this statue in the eyes of many gridiron fans but he's the best of this year's crop when you consider the numbers, the wins (now 13-0, including triumphs over Virginia Tech, Ole Miss, LSU and Florida) and the impact he had on that championship game when Ingram broke numerous tackles and placed his indelible stamp on that title tilt. He's your 2009 winner, folks!
If Ingram doesn't win?
I said it before:
If Mark Ingram doesn't win the Heisman Trophy, it's racism. . . .
Both Tim Tebow and Corey Colt lost their shot at the Heisman Trophy [Saturday] night. Alabama's never had a Heisman. If Mark Ingram doesn't get the Heisman now, I'd join any Heisman protest Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would care to lead.
Not that I'm
colorblind or anything, just partial to
Crimson.
Hit the tip jar, people -- I'm going to
Pasadena!
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Barack Obama should win the Heisman, it would look really good next to the Nobel. And, like the Nobel, I guess it's possible that he might at some indeterminate future point do something to earn it... and isn't that what counts?
ReplyDeleteSorry, but abject hatred for Satan's nephew, Lil Nicky, prevents me.
ReplyDeleteNot on my dime, you wack-job opportunist! The Rose Bowl will feature the University of Oregon Ducks, who will be competing against a team from ... Ohio I believe. Meanwhile the Tide and the Texans will just have to wait. They get to play in the same venue, just not on New Years Day.
ReplyDeleteSo, to each his own.
That would be the Heisman Trophy, named after John Heisman? John Heisman, who coached at Auburn?
ReplyDeleteTrogloPundit wrote:
ReplyDeleteJohn Heisman, who coached at Auburn?
HATER!
TrogloPundit said...
ReplyDeleteThat would be the Heisman Trophy, named after John Heisman? John Heisman, who coached at Auburn?
which already has two Heisman winners?
War.Damn.Eagle said...
ReplyDeletewhich already has two Heisman winners?
HATER!
Y'know, if y'all are bring this internecine SEC hate over here, how 'bout hittin' the tip jar as an acknolwedgement of my hospitality? Treatin' a good ol' boy like a damnyankee . . .
And yes, I misspelled "acknowledgement," just so you Auburn people wouldn't feel I was puttin' on airs or anything.
ReplyDeleteWho is Corey Colt?
ReplyDelete