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Aren't there usually 4 Heisman finalists?

Posted on 12/5/12 at 9:41 am
Posted by LSUTil_iDie
Lawrenceville, GA
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Posted on 12/5/12 at 9:41 am
Was there nobody deserving of that 4th spot?


ETA: Braxton Miller should have gotten an invitation IMO
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Posted by lsu480
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Posted on 12/5/12 at 9:42 am to
I also thought 3 seemed low...it seems like there are usually 4 or even 5.
Posted by usc6158
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Posted on 12/5/12 at 9:42 am to
They usually cut it off where there is a wide split in the number of votes. Most of the time it's between 3 and 5.
Posted by memphstigers23
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Posted on 12/5/12 at 9:42 am to
They only invite people that are close to winning, if one person is extremely behind the other top candidates they won't invite them to NY
Posted by SlowFlowPro
Simple Solutions to Complex Probs
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Posted on 12/5/12 at 9:42 am to
they send as many finalists as it takes to keep it respectable. they don't want to embarrass somebody at the end

usually there are 4-5...i can't remember 3
Posted by bayoujd
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Posted on 12/5/12 at 9:57 am to
Pretty sure there were only 3 invites when Troy Smith won it - Smith, McFadden, Quinn.
Posted by Quidam65
Q Continuum
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Posted on 12/5/12 at 10:11 am to
They can invite up to five finalists. But this year it was pretty clear that there were only three with a legit shot (JFF, Te'o, and Klein) so that's all they invited.

(And you could argue that Klein was questionable after the Baylor game)
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 12/5/12 at 10:31 am to
T''''eo is so awesome he takes up two spaces
Posted by Ghostfacedistiller
BR
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Posted on 12/5/12 at 1:01 pm to
When do the vote? I always thought that they finalists were picked based on how the votes went. Yet I've heard several voters, Mark Ingram was one, who said yesterday that he was undeceided because they just picked the finalists on Monday.

So, if Ingram wants to vote for Mettenberger, is it a write-in?
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