Ingram continues to be the most dominant player in college football. He had 144 rushing yards and 30 receiving yards on 5 receptions against a top defense in LSU. Ingram is the best player on the best team right now and I said before the season Ingram would be better than Coffee. What I didn't expect is that Trent Richardson would be just as good as Ingram was to Coffee. It's a great thing to have two great backs like Alabama has, but Ingram is clearly the best right now as he is the best in the country. If Ingram doesn't win the Heisman at this point in the season, the Heisman trophy is committing suicide, because the only other possible winners are Tebow and McCoy and they definitely don't deserve it this season.
2. Case Keenum
Keenum is probably the best player in the country and while I agree that the Heisman should be given to the best player in the country, I believe Ingram deserves the award right now as he is playing just as well as Keenum and he still has his team undefeated. There is no doubt in my mind, Keenum has demonstrated a perfect Heisman season. He puts up the crazy stats the voters like. He has more marquee moments than a voter can count, but the only problem is he plays for Houston. He went over 500 yards for the third time this season this past week and if ballots ended today he would my first team All-American quarterback.
3. CJ Spiller
I say that Spiller needs a big performance and what does he do? He delivers probably the best running performance of his career. For possibly the first time all season, he was rather average on special teams, but his running performance and his 67 yards and a touchdown in the receiving game are undeniable and Spiller deserves his position in the Heisman race. The problem for Spiller is his team's overall performance. This blog tries to predict the Heisman outcome while still showing who I believe is the winner. Do I believe Keenum and Spiller will finish 2-3? Hell no, but they clearly deserve it over McCoy and Tebow who probably will.
The rest of the pack
At this point in the season, the Heisman race is becoming more and more clear and in tradition with the Heisman committee inviting less and less to the Heisman ceremony (recently 3 instead of the classic 5) I am limiting my race at this point in the season to 3. However, this year's race is still undecided. Tim Tebow and Colt McCoy are going to get votes whether or not they really deserve them. Right now Tebow, nor McCoy are in my top 5 candidates, but for namesake the will get first place votes no matter what. Earl Thomas and Ndamukong Suh are stealing the spotlight from Taylor Mays and Eric Berry and rightly so based on this season's performance. Unlike offensive superstars who get namesake, Suh and Thomas are getting the credit over the talented safety duo. Golden Tate is a darkhorse contender at this point, but Notre Dame is doing subpar at this point. Jordan Shipley also deserves an outside shot. Shipley is clearly outplaying his quarterback, McCoy, but the name player will be the one getting the votes.
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