A winner has been announced and we now know who the 2009 Heisman Trophy winner is. It was good news for the South and it’s nice to see the national media outlets recognized our tremendous talent we have down here. Or maybe this is more of a slap in the face and they didn’t make the right choice? This year’s winner of the Heisman Trophy was Mark Ingram from Alabama. He is a great running back and compiled a ton of stats; while playing against good football teams every Saturday. This isn’t the case for the running back from Stanford who finished in 2nd place in the voting by a very slim margin. Toby Gerhartdidn’t match up against the talent Ingram did. Gerhart was playing against much weaker teams in the Pac 10 and he would have never got those numbers against the SEC or ACC teams in college football. Toby Gerhart was just 28 points shy of winning the Heisman Trophy and this is scary.

Another thing that is scary is to see how the rest of the elite college football players placed on the Heisman list. After Ingram and Gerhart from Stanford, we saw Texas quarterback Colt McCoy in 3rd place, the 4th place finisher was Ndamukong Suh from Nebraska and the Florida Gators quarterbackTim Tebowfinished 5th in the Heisman voting. Did these voters ever here of a team from the ACC called Clemson? They should have probably watched some of the Clemson Tigers football games this year and they would have seen the best football player in the country. If there is a better player than C.J. Spiller; then I would love to see this athlete. Spiller has speed, moves, and more speed. He is clearly the best running back in college football and it’s very surprising that the winner would be another running back that plays the same position as Spiller.

The defensive player from Nebraska looks like a top overall draft pick for the NFL someday. I could have understood if a player playing a different position won the Heisman Trophy over C.J. Spiller. It’s the fact they gave another running back a higher placement than Spiller that is shocking. It gets even more shocking to see the Stanford tailback get more votes than C.J. Spiller too.

Ingram from Alabama got 1,542 yards for the season. This was more yards than Spiller’s 1,145, but Ingram had 48 more carries than Spiller and Spiller played hurt a lot. Spiller did have 445 yards in receiving and Ingram caught 3 less balls for a total of 322 yards. Ingram had 3 more touchdowns than Spiller, but Mark Ingram is playing for the number 1 team in the land, so you would expect him to have more touchdown opportunities. I have seen both of these great backs play and I’m not knocking Mark Ingram at all. Ingram is a fantastic running back, but the running back from Clemson is an amazing back and will be an elite NFL running back on the next level.

The reason Nebraska’s guy got up there in the Heisman voting is due to Brent Musberger and Kirk Herbstreet influencing the TV audience as they always do. These guys are so bias and can’t stand Southern teams and they purposely talk up players and teams, so they can make them appear better than the teams and players from the ACC and SEC. In their hate for the South, they actually caused Toby Gerhart to lose the Heisman Trophy this year. If they would have kept their mouth shut in the Texas and Nebraska game they did in prime time and wouldn’t have talked Nebraska’s star defensive linemen up, those votes would have went Stanford’s way and Kirk’s beloved Pac 10 would be the holders of the trophy this year. The Pac 10, Toby Gerhart, and the Stanford Cardinal football team can thank Kirk Herbstreet and Brent Musberger for their guy not winning the 2009 Heisman Trophy.

Congratulations to Mark Ingram and the Alabama Crimson Tide football team for your achievements in college football this year. We know that you’re already the champions in college football by beating the Florida Gators in the SEC Championship Game. We also know that the Texas Longhorns don’t deserve to be in the BCS Title Game. Make us all happy and put these guys away and let’s show up another over ranked team that ESPN, Kirk Herbstreet, and Brent Musberger has helped to get there. Texas has zero chance of winning and probably a 90 percent chance of losing by 30+ points! Sorry college football fans, but there is no playoffs and this is probably due to the fact that the Southern teams would clean house against these over ranked teams that currently make up the top 10.