The highest individual honor in American sports will be awarded to the most outstanding player in college football Saturday Night. If I had a vote, it would go a little something like this…
1. Montee Ball, RB Wisconsin
Wisconsin RB Montee Ball deserves the Heisman Trophy - 38 TDs should do it, and the pose above is further proof (Icon SMI)
If Wisky is 13-0 he seems like a shoe-in for the award, 38 total TDs? and he was at his best against the toughest teams on the schedule. 4 TDs against such vaunted defenses as Nebraska and Penn State. 4 TDs in the Big Ten Title game. He even had 2 TDs in each of the losses. Montee Ball did his part to earn the award.
The Badgers were thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis close to staying perfect this season, on a last second bobbled richochet hail mary loss to Sparty and another last second loss to Ohio State on a busted coverage deep after a long QB scramble. Hell, even with only one of those wins the Badgers might have gotten in over Alabama. one thing is for sure, those losses cannot be pinned on Montee Ball in any way, shape, or form.
Ball has never averaged less than 5.0 YPC in any game this season and has scored at least twice every week. He is also so versatile, registering a catch in 11 games and a receiving TD in 6 games, leading all RBs (with atleast 75 carries) in TD grabs.
College football fans can witness the game’s all-time leading passer on an undefeated team this weekend as ESPN takes its mobile Gameday set to Houston – can ESPN reset the Heisman discussion by providing Keenum a national platform that he does not normally get from the CBS College Sports Network?
The fantasy sports fans among us operate on a very populist level of meritocracy – great example is from 2007 Paul Smith’s yards at Tulsa equaled Tim Tebow’s yards at Florida so we view the sport through a production-centric lens. So, the fantasy college football community will no doubt support Keenum.
Most of the rest of the pundits and fans apply another lens that factors in strength of schedule, or NFL prospect, or their own home team bias. These other viewpoints have their place, but do they really matter when trying to define “the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity”? Read the rest of this entry →
It must be Groundhog Day…because we seem to have a lot of repeat winners for our Player of the Week honors.
Nebraska QB Taylor Martinez (photo, thanks HuskerNation.com) is our Fantasy College Blitz Fantasy Player of the Week for Week Eight…his second win of our top weekly fantasy honor this season.
The freshman from Corona, CA (Centennial HS) threw for 323 yards and 5 TDs, while rushing for another 130 yards, in the Cornhuskers 51-41 win at Oklahoma State this past Saturday.
Nebraska has had some great running/option QBs over its history, but, their recent discovery just may obliterate all the records and legendary games of his predecessors.
Huskers QB Taylor Martinez (photo, thanks HuskerExtra.com) is our FantasyCollege Blitz Fantasy Player of the Week for Week Six.
Martinez, a redshirt-freshman from Corona, CA (Centennial HS), ran for 241 yards and 4 TDs, passed for another TD, and had 368 yards total offense in Nebraska’s 48-13 win at Kansas State on Thursday night.
Because winning Fantasy Player of the Week once was not enough…
Michigan QB Denard Robinson is our Fantasy College Blitz Fantasy Player of the Week for a second time this season, winning the honor in Week One.
Robinson (photo, thanks Fanhouse.com), a sophomore from Deerfield Beach, FL (Deerfield Beach HS) threw for 277 yards and 3 TDs, while rushing for 217 yards and another 2 TDs in the Wolverines 42-35 win at Indiana. His last rushing TD in the closing seconds was the game-winner for Michigan in an offensive shootout with the Hoosiers.
