https://www.heisman.com/heisman-winners/
rdgtr,
while I see your point, I did some research on the 19 Heisman Trophy winners since the year 2000.
RBs = 3
QBs = 16
Number of Heisman winners who won either BCS or CFP championships = 5
Number of perfect seasons = 4 - all resulting in championships
Total victories = 226
Total losses = 32
Average winner won 11.9 games & lost 1.7 games in year he won Heisman
Worst record for Heisman Winner -
2016 Lamar Jackson - Louisville - 9 - 4
2007 Tim Teabow - 9-4; 5-3 SEC; 3rd in SEC East; behind Tenn & UGA.
Gators other Heisman winners -
1996 Danny Wuerffel - Univ Florida Gators - 12-1; 8-0 SEC; won SEC & BCS .
1966 Steve Spurrier - Univ Florida Gators - 9-2; 5-1 SEC; 3rd in SEC.
Obviously, both Steve Spurrier (40 yd FG against Auburn) & Tim Teabow won "a popularity contest " .
rdgtr,
Using your criteria, shouldn't we pull Spurrier's & Teabow's statues down & demand that they return their Heisman Trophies ?
If so, I appoint you, as a committee of one to do that !
Or should we accept that since 2000 (& probably before then but I didn't take the time to do all the research) you will not win the Heisman unless you are the QB (or occasionally a RB) on a highly successfull team & let it go at that ?
IMO, if Felipe Franks wins "the 4th statue", odds are that the Gators will have had a HELL of a season !
FWIW; in 2006 Teabow & Chris Leake went 13-1 & won a BCS championship.
Heisman Winners -
https://www.heisman.com/heisman-winners/
College Football National Championship history -
https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/college-football-national-championship-history
You have misspelled Tebow (not "Teabow") repeatedly in your post (also "Leake") which I find annoying - are you trolling? Learn how to spell those names, huh? What exactly do you think 'my criteria' is with your snipes about Spurrier & Tebow?
Those 2-3 players that you had mentioned set out to win conference titles
first (not individual awards). I just haven't seen too many college players go out there and
boast about winning the Heisman trophy as their main goal like Franks seems to imply.
Perhaps, we have all misinterpreted Frank's "4th statue" comment and what he really believed was that his fellow teammate, Michael Perine, will have a great year and thus will be very deserving of any individual awards.
Franks should worry more about playing mistake free football, continue in getting better and in learning how to win more of the big ball games on the big stage (i.e beating Georgia for the SEC-E title, beating Alabama for the SECC, etc.) - something that Florida has not done yet under Franks. We'll see whether Franks returns for a redshirt-senior year or not . Of the three current UF QB's, I do think that Franks is the most
durable and is probably the most talented, too.
Addressing one of your other points, it is a rare thing indeed to win both the national championship and the individual awards like a Maxwell/Heisman Trophy. That is something that both Danny Wuerffel and Tim Tebow (a year later after winning the Heisman in 2007 & leading Florida to the 2008 NC) have done in their careers.
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Regarding the Heisman, there have been many other great players in the past who had
never won that award and were probably deserving also: i.e, Rex Grossman, Peyton Manning, Chris Leak, Emmitt Smith, Dan Marino, etc.
As for the "criteria", football is a
team game.
Team success depends on numerous individuals who have prepared all year long coming together to cohesively execute the game plans (defensively, offensively & special teams) devised by numerous coaches week to week. Any resulting individual accolades (i.e, All-Conference/SEC, All-American, etc.) that may or may not come will depend upon entirely on whether the team came close to meeting the team goals or not which at a minimum is a win every week.
Winning should matter the most before any individual accolade.
And finally, those statues in front of BHG Stadium, afterawhile, I've always felt that they were kind of gaudy and boastful. It does not speak to the truely
humble nature of each of the Florida Heisman winners who were very much into the
team aspects of the sport rather than just personal glory.
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