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re: Honest question: Why are Young and Corral such Heisman favorites?
Posted on 10/18/21 at 4:36 pm to Ag Zwin
Posted on 10/18/21 at 4:36 pm to Ag Zwin
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I have nothing against either of them. Solid players.
I don’t see anything, so far at least, that makes them such overwhelming favorites to be the last two horses in the race. Stats are good, but not outliers, or even consistently at the top. Their teams are good, but not dominating.
I haven’t watched a great deal of games outside the conference. Mostly B1G because of where I live.
When Cam, Manziel, and Burrow won it, they clearly were game-changing players for that one season. I don’t see ANY players being that impactful so far this year, but that still doesn’t justify these guys being the only two names we seem to hear.
Flame away.
Give me two names you would personally put in front of them right now on your Heisman ballot.
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Posted on 10/18/21 at 4:39 pm to deeprig9
Stetson Bennett?
Posted on 10/18/21 at 4:59 pm to deeprig9
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Give me two names you would personally put in front of them right now on your Heisman ballot.
I'm not sure I have one, but that's not the premise of the question.
Media seems to act like these are the only two worth talking about. (Well, to be fair, it seems more like the oddsmakers, but I would posit that a lot of that is coming from the media hype and people betting on its effect on voting.)
Like a poster above said, the Coastal Carolina kid is putting up stupid numbers in a couple of categories. He's not in others, but if you have Troy Aikman running the wishbone, there is only so much you are going to see of his arm. Doesn't mean I think he is getting screwed, but I don't even hear him talked about.
The QB at Virginia has some impressive numbers (leads Corral by 50 yards/game), and he has Virginia at 5-2, with the only losses so far being to an undefeated Wake Forest and a schizophrenic UNC. He's almost all passing, though.
I could see a good case for Matt Corral. Young, not so much. I just think it's become too narrow a race for this stage of the season, and hype is becoming more enabling than performance.
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