Not espn's fault that manning lost the heisman?

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#5
My opinion is his opinion is bull, especially the last line....That he indeed voted for Peyton Manning. Just stinks of revisionist history.
 
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#6
best part: Peyton Manning didn't win the Heisman Trophy because he tanked the biggest game of the season for the third year in a row. Woodson's defining moment was a spectacular play against a highly-ranked, hated rival that helped propel his team on to a national championship; Manning's was an ugly pick-six against a highly-ranked, hated rival that helped cost his team a national championship
 
#7
#7
Did it take 13 years for the rewrite to start? I associate espn with the term trailer park frenzy. Pretty sure in my memory banks espn pushed the hell out of Woodson in the run up.
 
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droski said:
best part: Peyton Manning didn't win the Heisman Trophy because he tanked the biggest game of the season for the third year in a row. Woodson's defining moment was a spectacular play against a highly-ranked, hated rival that helped propel his team on to a national championship; Manning's was an ugly pick-six against a highly-ranked, hated rival that helped cost his team a national championship
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The timing of those two plays hurt Manning in that OSU-Michigan was the last game of the season, with national title implications on the line while Tennessee's November schedule had non-contenders like UK and Vandy.
 
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droski said:
best part: Peyton Manning didn't win the Heisman Trophy because he tanked the biggest game of the season for the third year in a row. Woodson's defining moment was a spectacular play against a highly-ranked, hated rival that helped propel his team on to a national championship; Manning's was an ugly pick-six against a highly-ranked, hated rival that helped cost his team a national championship
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Didn't David Boston just absolutely toast Woodson for a TD in that game? I might be remembering incorrectly, i was a young'n
 
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Slydell said:
Pretty sure in my memory banks espn pushed the hell out of Woodson in the run up.
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You are correct. Almost every talking head on ESPN was pushing Woodson. I find it the height of arrogance that Chris Fowler thinks UT fans hate him because he handed the Heisman to Woodson. It was the whole freaking network. This strikes me as Chris Fowler trying to get his name out in the press by stirring this crap up after 14 years. Perhaps he's looking for another gig.
 
#13
#13
If the Heisman were a career award, then Manning would have deserved it. It is a single season award, though; Woodson was not only a better player but a more spectacular player than Manning was throughout that season.
 
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BearCat204 said:
This thread will burn up in flames before the day is out
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only because all the people who weren't old enough to stay up and watch the night games will join in.

it's in the past but I still don't buy what CF's throwing out there. Ratings matter to any show
 
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therealUT said:
If the Heisman were a career award, then Manning would have deserved it. It is a single season award, though; Woodson was not only a better player but a more spectacular player than Manning was throughout that season.
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Are you even a TN fan? You are just flat wrong! Even if I'm a homer or not, Peyton deserved it. Still BS to this day
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#20
#20
He had far superior stats than than Wuerfell who won it the year before. Media pushed hard the end of the season re a defender winning it. Woodson's stats didn't deserve it.
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San Diego Vol said:
He had far superior stats than than Wuerfell who won it the year before. Media pushed hard the end of the season re a defender winning it. Woodson's stats didn't deserve it.
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wuerfell won a national championship. heisman has nothing to do with stats. by that theory mike leach's qbs should have won multiple heismans.
 
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droski said:
why did he deserve it? serious question.
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A good criteria when it is close...who would you rather have had on your team that season?

Personally, no homer, if it were a close race, the guy that had the ball in his hand every possession gets my vote.

It boiled down to flashiness vs. production. Flashiness won in this case.
 
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droski said:
wuerfell won a national championship. heisman has nothing to do with stats. by that theory mike leach's qbs should have won multiple heismans.
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Heisman is voted before the Nat'l Championship.
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#25
#25
Sometimes the Heisman is about stats, depending on who the candidates are.

Tebow won in '07 based on his stats.

Manning's career up to that point had been defined by losing to Florida. He could have thrown for 6,000 yards and 75 TDs in '97, but losing to Florida for the third straight year, with arguably a better team, is all the voters would remember.
 
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