re: Least deserving Heisman winner since the year 2000?

I don't view this question as "Who shouldn't have won it because someone else that year did better."

I view it as, "Who is the worst on this list."

Eric Crouch.

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2006 - well, an underclassmen has never won the Heisman, so we have to give it to Troy Smith, thus fricking over McFadden.


2007 - Tim Tebow should be the first underclassmen to ever win the award, thus fricking over McFadden yet again

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McFadden had a much stronger case in 2006, given the instability of his QB situation and the team winning 10 games and going to the SECCG.

I think what hurt him both years that no one wants to acknowledge is Felix Jones running for 1000 yards behind him. Same deal as Wisconsin - if your system and OL make every player look good, it's difficult for the media to reward any one player.

The only defense necessary for Tebow's award is that no player in history had every had 20 passing TDs and 20 rushing TDs in the same season. Tim added on an extra 10 passing to have a 30/20 season. That is just flat stupid, the kind of season I would have thought impossible as a kid.

For comparison

Vince Young 2005:
212/325 65.2% 3036 26/10
155 car 1050 6.8 12 TDs

Tim Tebow 2007:
234/350 66.9% 3286 32/6
210 car 895 4.3 23 TDs

Vince Young was one of the most dynamic QBs in history and had a historic, unstoppable season.

Tebow had more passes, more completions, more yards, at a better %, with more TDs and fewer INTs. And he had double the rushing TDs with only ~150 fewer yards.

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18 tfl and 7.5 sacks coming in to the Big 12 Championship. His campaign was built off one game

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Everyone seems to conveniently forget this, especially Auburn fans. Weird, huh?

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And yes, Suh should have also won the Heisman based on the Big 12 title game that year alone

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Maybe thinking of someone else, but didn’t some of the voters try to use the argument that it’s a regular season award and the conference games are post-season.

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Yeah...going into Championship Weekend he was far and away the easy pick for the Heisman. He threw for nearly 4,000 yards, passed for 40 TDs, and only threw 10 INTs. Those numbers in a major football conference were god-like back in 2003.

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Yeah Matt Leinart won it the next year and he threw for 3,322 yards, 33 Tds and 6 Int's.

So you can see how impressive White's stats were for the time.

And Reggie Bush still deserved it. Not his fault he lost his mind in that title game and Carroll wanted to play everything through White.

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He had a Heisman moment against Oklahoma catching a pass for a TD...and voters latched onto that as lazy as they are. He had 7 TDs and 10 Ints passing.

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he also had over 1,100 yards & 18 Tds rushing, he was a running back playing QB

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2006 Troy Smith (McFadden)

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As a Razorback fan, I am still bothered by the OSU suck off that cost Mcfadden his Heisman.

Better question is who should have won it ... I think all were pretty much deserving... but some shouldn’t have won it

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18 tfl and 7.5 sacks coming in to the Big 12 Championship. His campaign was built off one game

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7.5 sacks is still an outstanding number for an interior DL. Suh was dominant. That game took it to another level.

I think something we've learned over the last 20 years is that Heisman voting needs to be done after the bowls.