The Blue Workhorse

Last Saturday, Sam Bradford was honored with the prestigious Heisman Trophy after being named the most outstanding player in the regular season of college football this season.

Bradford’s winnings came on the heels of the announcement of Tim Tebow’s historic win in the first annual Sports Blog Hesiman Trophy. For the Sports Blog Heisman Trophy, we e-mailed many, many bloggers asking them to give us their Heisman ballots, several of which did.

We also gave our votes, and I’d be remiss as this site’s editor if I didn’t broadcast these selections (in alphabetical order):

That’s right folks. The votes have been tallied. There were 73 ballots cast with each having an outcome on the overall standings (including the final ballot I received, which moved Michael Crabtree back into 4th place).

We received ballots from as far south as Florida, as far west as California and Oregon, and as far north as the great white north of Canada. Thirteen different players and one unit received votes while another 12 players and one unit were noted as honorable mentions.

Without further ado…

(drumroll) Your 2008 Sports Blog Heisman Trophy winner is…

…more…

As I wrote earlier this week, we will be awarding the Sports Blog Heisman Trophy to (FCS) college football’s player of the year tomorrow.

I am taking in the ballots and compiling the votes of Sports Bloggers & Internet Sports Fans who are answering the question of “Who Is Your Heisman?” If were able to cast your ballot for the Heisman Trophy award (which will be given out this weekend), who would be on your ballot.

I have received several interesting ballots with some intriguing selections, including some of the candidates listed at the bottom of this post, but there is still time to cast your ballot!

…more…

Earlier this week in Part I, I gave you my predictions for some big time conference matchups on Wednesday and Thursday nights. I was right about Ball State remaining undefeated, but I was shocked by the performance of Georgia Tech last night.

The Ramblin’ Wreck absolutely destroyed Miami with their triple option attack as they piled up 472 rushing yards…yea, 472 rushing yards! I should have known better than to take an ACC squad their first week entering the Top 25, but I was completely unprepared for Miami’s inability to play assignment football.

No problems, though, as I am completely prepared to predict the rest of Week 13’s dynamite college football games:

My selections the last two weeks have been lackluster at best, but with the more crucial the games…the better I have been this year, so I’m looking for a big week with some big time Top 5 and Top 15 matchups this weekend.

So what kind of predictions do I have this week? Probably the best you’ve ever seen, but we’ll start with Wednesday and Thursday nights games in Part I (with predictions for Saturday’s gamesto be released in Part II on Friday)

#15 Ball State at Central Michigan

…more…

WOW! That’s about all that could be mustered after that final play of the Texas Tech/Texas ball game. What a game between two teams still with national championship aspirations. The win only makes this week’s Texas Tech/Oklahoma State game even bigger.

Speaking of big games…how about what was, before the season began, supposed to be the game of the year - Georgia/Florida? What a bore. Georgia turned the ball over repetitively and Tim Tebow capitalized every time (5 total TDs: 3 running, 2 passing).

Another week means another re-evaluation, and thus, we give you our new The Blue Workhorse College Football Top 25 after Week 8. Some things to note from this week’s rankings:

…more…

Last week’s predictions may have been my best effort thus far: I told you to pick Texas Tech in a game Vegas thought was even; I said Texas wouldn’t cover a 12 point spread; I told you Georgia and Penn State would escape Top 25 matchups; and I even gave you the spread for the FSU/VT game when I said Florida State would win by two scores. (They won 30-20.)

I even let you know USC would win unimpressively, Kentucky couldn’t win in the swamp, and that the heartland (Oklahoma, Tulsa, and TCU) would put up a bunch of points. Now I did miss some games at the back end of the Top 25, but there has been so much movement in the bottom half the past couple of weeks that I don’t know anyone who could have predicted that whole mess.

So what kind of predictions do I have this week? Probably not any good ones, but here they are:

…more…

The SEC is the best conference in college football…or is it?

As most fans in the Southeast assume each fall, the Southeastern Conference is by far the best college football conference in the country, but as ESPN’s Lee Corso says, “Not so fast my friend.” This season may have something else to offer fans as the Big 12 is off to an impressive start, and as this writer believes…yes…that the Big 12 is stronger than the SEC in 2008.

Let’s examine the facts:

…more…