re: This year puts Mark Ingram's Heisman to shame.

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PrivatePublic: This year puts Mark Ingram's Heisman to shame.

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BS. And there have been several years, even before Ingram, where 2,000 yard rushers didn't win...I believe Troy Davis had back-to-back 2,000 yard seasons, back in the 90's, and didn't win either time...

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AUTigermitch1995: Still believe Suh should have won it.

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Ingram was a worthy winner in 2009...but any of the other finalists, Suh, Gerhart, McCoy, and Tebow would've been worthy as well. Just happened to be a year where no one put up PlayStation-like numbers. If Ingram had those same stats in the years preceding or any of the years after, he wouldn't have won it. He just happened to do it in a year where Bama went undefeated/captured a title, compiled good stats to be comparable to his closest competitors, and had a couple of Heisman moments (South Carolina, SECCG)...and unlike past (Bush, Bradford, Tebow) and future (Cam, RG3, Johnny Football) seasons, there was no one standout, aka "WOW", player to emerge...