Suh Leads Preliminary Heisman Poll at StiffArmTrophy.com

by Husker Mike on Dec 7, 2009 12:01 AM CST in Nebraska Husker Football

StiffArmTrophy.com, who claims to have correctly predicted the Heisman winner seven out of the last eight years, has their initial projection out there, and the early returns has #93, Ndamukong Suh, in the lead with 59 ballots counted. The projection takes into account regional biases, so that trims Suh's early results...but Suh still shows up in the lead.

Before Husker fans get too worked up, note that many of the early voters are Nebraska media members: Tom Shatel, Lee Barfknecht, Sean Callahan, and Brian Christopherson. Tonight, Travis Justice announced a first-place vote for Suh.

As one would expect, the Kansas City Star's resident college football whackjob Mike DeArmond voted Tim Tebow #1 and Colt McCoy #2. Not sure what he's been watching, but it's not college football. I can accept his vote for Danario Alexander for #3; Alexander deserves some love after getting stiffed badly for the Biletnikoff award.

National writers Joe Schad of ESPN and Andy Staples of Sports Illustrated have Suh #1 as well. ESPN's Ivan Maisel gave Suh a #3 vote.

Last night's game truly might have ignited a groundswell of support for Mr. Suh; this "Suh for Heisman" campaign might actually be a realistic goal

Poll

Does Ndamukong Suh REALLY have a chance to win the Heisman?

No way. Quit getting your hopes up.

94 votes

He's got a chance to get to New York. You never know.

241 votes

Absolutely. Last night he proved he was the best player in college football; now it's just a matter of getting past the "offensive player" bias.

588 votes

923 votes | Poll has closed

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That'd be so wonderful

I’m not going to hold my breath, but MAN talk about a season-maker for Husker Nation. Suh has taken this team on his back all year long. No one else comes even close. I just wish he had a better supporting cast on the offensive side of the ball and that the pervasive bias against defensive players didn’t exist. This man carried Nebraska to where we are, and he deserves recognition for it.

He at least deserves a trip to New York. While I don’t have much hope for the overall win, I’m cautiously optimistic by those numbers that he might get to go to the ceremony, which in and of itself would be a great honor for him.

"My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season." - Tom Osborne

by jdhusker on Dec 7, 2009 12:21 AM CST reply actions

Overnight Update

Suh drops to #2 as votes for Gerhart come in, and the assumption that much of Suh’s regional support as already been factored in. But it’s too early to call anything at this point.

by Husker Mike on Dec 7, 2009 6:49 AM CST reply actions

Gerhart

Won’t win. He wasn’t even on the radar until a few weeks back when they destroyed USC. Then they lost.

I think Suh will be invited, and he’ll get votes. But he won’t win, because the brain-dead and gutless voters will be told there’s np pageantry in it. So they will give it to Ingram because his team won, AND he played well on Saturday.

by Brian Speers on Dec 7, 2009 9:36 AM CST reply actions

New Update

79 Ballots in Suh retakes the lead in the projection. It’s a 4-way between him, Gerhart, Ingram, and McCoy (really??!). With 10% of the ballots in, I’m starting to feel a little better about Suh’s chances of going to NY.

"My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season." - Tom Osborne

by jdhusker on Dec 7, 2009 1:26 PM CST reply actions