re: Should Peyton Manning really have been the Heisman winner?

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Here is what won Hourning the heisman...59 of 111 passes for 917 yards, 3 tds and 13 interceptions...yep...he had over 4 times as many ints as he had tds.

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He didnt just play QB though, you're conveniently excluding everything else he did. If you wanna say ND bias got him the Heisman on a losing team, then yeah I won't argue but don't misrepresent things to bolster your argument

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OK...instead of typing it...let me pull the stats from the Sports-Reference.com 1956 Heisman Trophy Voting site...

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1 Paul Hornung Notre Dame SR QB 197 162 151 1066 59 Cmp, 111 Att, 917 Yds, 3 TD, 13 Int

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Those are the ONLY stats that they list...so I wasn't cherry-picking...they were.


Now...looking at his overall numbers for '56 and compare his numbers to Majors...

Hornung ran for 6 TDs and threw for 3 (total of 9 tds)
Majors ran for 7 TDs and threw for 5 (total of 12 tds)

Hornung ran for 420 yards and threw for 917 (for a total of 1,337 yards)
Majors ran for 549 and threw for 552 (for a total of 1,101 yards)

Hornung averaged 4.5 yards per carry
Majors averaged 5.1 yards per carry

Hornung averaged 8.3 yards per passing attempt
Majors averaged 9.4 yards per passing attempt

Hornung's passer rating was 108
Major's passer rating was 157

Here is the big one...

Hornung led his team to a 2-8 finish
Majors led his team to a 10-0 finish


Ok...what stats did I miss here?