HEISMAN HEAD-SCRATCHER

By mark rogers
December 19, 2008

I don't know what confused me more...the fact that Tim Tebow lost the Heisman Trophy to Sam Bradford...or the fact that Colt McCoy finished second.

Don't get me wrong, I was thrilled that Colt was that close, but the voting goes against the majority of the history of the Heisman voting. If you have three players in the running and two of them are from the same region and the other is in a big market or on a coast playing for a national title contender, it would seem obvious that the voting would split between the players close together and go to the "single" finalist.

That didn't happen.

And I was very confused.

I've thought about it over the last week and think it might have to do with technology. Voters have blackberrys and iPhones and get updates on every player at every school. ESPN, CSBC, Versus, NFL Network and ESPN Gameplan allow more games to be watched by more people every weekend.

So maybe the fact that regional lines have been blurred by the massive increase in technology has made that "splitting votes" factor a moot point...???

It's the only thing I can come up with. I will say one thing: I love the fact that the lines are blurred.

It makes it more fair because I believe Colt and Sam both deserved to get more votes than Tebow. I just never thought it would happen based of how the voters normally perceive the situation.

The voters are smarter and more informed than ever before...and that's great for the Heisman Trophy and college football.

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