Tebow Holds Lead In HeismanPundit.com Heisman Poll

October 15th, 2009 by Vince Mullins

Race appears wide open at half-way point as season-high 14 players appear in weekly survey – Guest post by Chris Huston.

Tim Tebow brings the chomp defeating Alabama in the 2008 SEC Championship Game (Icon SMI)

Florida’s Tim Tebow held on to a comfortable lead in the latest edition of the HeismanPundit.com Heisman Poll released on Tuesday (Oct.13).

The panel of 13 Heisman voters from around the country gave the Gator quarterback six first-place votes and 50 total points after he returned from a concussion to lead his top-ranked team to a 13-3 victory over then-No. 4 LSU last Saturday. It is the seventh-straight week that Tebow has topped the weekly poll.

Texas quarterback Colt McCoy hung on to second place with 35 points and two first-place votes, barely edging out Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen, who totaled 34 points and two first-place votes.

Despite Tebow’s steady mastery of the weekly survey, the race appears wide open, with voters showing interest in several new candidates. A season-high 14 players appeared in this week’s balloting. Nebraska defensive tackle Ndamkong Suh made the biggest splash, garnering two first-place votes to debut in sixth place.

“If the award is for the most outstanding player in college football, you have to be awed by how dominating Suh has been this season,” said one voter. “Other guys who become the default frontrunners due to their reps linger near the top and will be tough to beat in the end, but I’m going with Suh at this point. He’s made the Huskers a big deal again and he’s doing some things nobody at his position does.”

Quarterbacks Tony Pike of Cincinnati (25 points, one first-place vote) and Case Keenum of Houston (20 points) rounded out the top five.

The HeismanPundit.com Heisman Poll appears every Wednesday in the Orlando Sentinel and in various Tribune Company media outlets.

About the Poll

The HeismanPundit.com Heisman Poll is made up of 13 Heisman voters from across the country. They vote for five players each week. Tabulations are made on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis, with five points awarded for a first-place vote, four points for a second-place vote and so on. Last year’s final Heismanpundit poll was the most accurate in the country, picking five of the top six finishers (including the winner) in the Heisman vote.

Members of the panel include: Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel, Teddy Greenstein and Brian Hamilton of the Chicago Tribune, Olin Buchanan and Tom Dienhart of Rivals.com, Jenni Carlson of The Oklahoman, Bruce Feldman of ESPN.com, J.B. Morris of ESPN the Magazine, Austin Murphy, B.J. Schecter and Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated, plus Dick Weiss of the New York Daily News.

Chris Huston of HeismanPundit.com coordinates and also votes in the poll.

HeismanPundit.com Heisman Poll, 10/13
(total points, with first-place votes in parantheses)

1. Tim Tebow, QB, Florida–50 (6)

2. Colt McCoy, QB, Texas–35 (2)

3. Jimmy Clausen, QB, Notre Dame–34 (2)

4. Tony Pike, QB, Cincinnati–25 (1)

5. Case Keenum, QB, Houston–20

6. Ndamkong Suh, DT, Nebraska–11 (2)

7. Jacquizz Rodgers, RB, Oregon State–5
Ryan Williams, RB, Virginia Tech–5

9. Eric Berry, DB, Tennessee–3

10. Todd Reesing, QB, Kansas–2
Golden Tate, WR, Notre Dame–2

12. Jacory Harris, QB, Miami–1
Rolando McClain, LB, Alabama–1
Tyrod Taylor, QB, Virginia Tech–1

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Tebow Holds Lead In HeismanPundit.com Heisman Poll

October 15th, 2009 by Vince Mullins

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