Heisman 2009

Mark Ingram Wins the Heisman Trophy

Mark Ingram completed the trophy case at Alabama, delivering the first Heisman to a school that boasts one of the richest histories in college football. The tough-running sophomore tailback turned tearful after winning the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night in the closest vote in the award's 75-year history. Get the heisman results, heisman voting, and heisman winner here.

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Heisman Trophy 2009 – The Final Five

The Heisman Trophy 2009 has been heavily debated all year, for good and bad. Mostly, the 2009 Heisman Trophy race was defined by having no favorites, and no sure nominees. Once Sam Bradford and Tim Tebow slipped up, the award was wide open to almost anyone. Today, the Heisman Trophy 2009 can only be given to one of five finalists, who can now officially book trips to New York. The five finalists were named on ESPN at 6 p.m. est, and will appear at the Downtown Athletic Club on Saturday night. In such a wide open year, each of the five have a good case to make, so it is still anyone's game.

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McCoy among Top 5 Heisman Candidates

Leading his team to the National Championship Game earned Texas quarterback Colt McCoy another chance to win the Heisman Trophy. McCoy was named a finalist for the award on Monday, along with Stanford’s Toby Gerhart, Alabama’s Mark Ingram, Nebraska’s Ndamukong Suh and Florida’s Tim Tebow. McCoy and Tebow lost the award last year to Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford, who missed most of the season after injuring his right shoulder. Tebow won the award in 2007 and will try to become the second two-time Heisman winner.

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Suh for Heisman? Top 5 Heisman Candidate

LINCOLN — Look out New York, here comes King Ndamukong. Nebraska’s monster of a defensive tackle, Ndamukong Suh, is headed to Times Square as a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, presented annually to the nation’s most outstanding college football player. Suh remains among five in contention, announced today, for the sport’s most prestigious award. It will be awarded [...]

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Alabama’s Mark Ingram leads in Heisman Trophy poll

Alabama tailback Mark Ingram garnered 10 of 13 first-place votes to take a commanding lead in the latest HeismanPundit.com Heisman Poll released on Tuesday.  The sophomore from Flint, Mich., totaled a season-best 59 points in the weekly survey of 13 Heisman voters from across the country. It's the fifth week in a row Ingram has stood atop the poll, and his 24-point margin over second-place Colt McCoy (35 points, one first-place vote) of Texas is the biggest lead of the season by any candidate.

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Heisman Trophy – Candidates Battle

Less than a month until the 2009 Heisman Trophy winner is named, the race remains a muddle. If voters maintain their recent and not unreasonable trend, the candidates probably will simmer down to the most valuable players on the teams that emerge to play for the national championship. So barring any radical change in voting patterns or stunning surprises, expect to see some combination of at least two of the following three on stage in New York on Dec. 12:

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