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Does Aaron Murray keep track of the +1? He evidently does and showed us by putting up a monster game right when we declared he would drop off because he doesn’t have big stats. Johnathan Franklin continues 
to impress. Barkley doesn’t. Geno Smith continues his push to become the second best Tecmo Bowl quarterback ever behind Randall Cunningham. And finally, we have two quarterbacks who can hurt you as much with their arms as they can with their legs. No, one of them is not Denard Robinson (do you know he plays without tying his shoelaces?). We’re holding out until Denard plays well against a quality opponent despite the +1’s man crush on him the past two years.
1. Johnathan Franklin, RB, UCLA (541 yards rushing, 8.2 ypc, 3 TD’s; 121 yards receiving, 1 TD) J Franklin remains at the top after posting another outstanding game. It wasn’t 2-hundy, but then again, we’d be asking him to do something that hasn’t been seen since the days of Marshall Faulk at San Diego State.
2. Aaron Murray, QB, Georgia (842 yards passing, 63.8%, 8 passing TD’s, 2 rushing TDs, 2 INT’s) Murray threw for 342 yards on 14 completions while only attempting 19 passes. That’s a whopping… somewhere around 20 yards per completion. (Give me a break. I’m the +1, not the Stat Geek) Murray has been tested on the road and now has his chance to shine playing top notch opponents in conference play.
3. Geno Smith, QB, WVU (734 yards passing, 88.0%, 9 TD’s, 0 INT’s) Geno is putting up Tecmo Bowl numbers. (where have we heard that before? Oh yeah, here, when the +1 predicted RG3 to win the Heisman in the pre-season last year. Have I mentioned that before?) However, as with the rest of the country, the +1 is ready for West Virginia to begin conference play.
4. Braxton Miller, QB, Ohio State (611 yards passing, 61.5%, 7 TD’s, 2 INT’s; 377 yards rushing, 5 TD’s) Braxton has great stats and hasn’t really loaded up on Division II (or whatever they are called now) cupcakes. Miami of Ohio (a rivalry game), Central Florida and Cal are all respectable opponents. Miller needs to show he can throw accurately when he starts facing some tough Big 10 opponents to stay on the +1.
5. Matt Scott, QB, Arizona (995 yards passing, 71.5%, 7 TD’s, 1 INT; 190 yards rushing, 2 TD’s) Scott has a marquee win on his resume by beating Oklahoma State. Ok, maybe beating Okie State is not marquee, but it’s a good win. The +1 has a sneaky feeling that Scott will put up ridiculous stats.
Rich Rod
+ league where it appears only one team (Stanford) plays defense
= Big time QB numbers
+1. Matt Barkley, QB, USC (813 yards passing, 60.6%, 10 TD’s, 3 INT’s)
Blog Hawgs Heisman 5 + 1 Week 12
Posted by Adam Butler on November 20, 2012
Baylor forced Collin Klein to do two things last week that he had not done all season long: throw the ball more than 26 times and lose.
I’m not a very smart man, but I’m pretty sure those things correlate with one other. Colby Cameron really let me down this week and considering there were zero Louisiana Tech fans chiming in on him… I guess I’m the only one. Marqise Lee may just be the best player in college football. Unlike every other Heisman list in America, this one does not include a linebacker who is tied for 44th in the country in tackles.
1. Johnny Manziel, QB, Texas A&M (3,047 yards passing, 67.7%, 21 TD’s, 7 INT’s; 1,114 yards rushing, 6.5 ypc, 17 TD’s) I don’t think I can be any more clear on this one: I hope the voters do not exclude Johnny Trademark because he is a freshman. That would be a travesty–a travesty along the lines of voters excluding Darren McFadden because he was a sophomore then awarding the Heisman Trophy to a sophomore one year later. Johnny deserves the Trophy.
2. Collin Klein, QB, Kansas State (2,306 yards passing, 66.7%, 14 TD’s, 6 INT’s; 787 yards rushing, 4.6 ypc, 20 TD’s) The +1 thought about dropping Optimus more, but couldn’t due to his almost year-long perfect streak.
3. Tajh Boyd, QB, Clemson (3,367 yards passing, 68.0%, 33 TD’s, 11 INT’s; 413 yards rushing, 4 TD’s) Tajh continues to wow. You won’t win it Tajh, but you deserve to be a finalist and receive a lot of 2nd and 3rd-place votes.
4. Marqise Lee, WR, USC (1,604 receiving yards, 107 receptions, 15.0 ypr, 14 TD’s; 110 yards rushing, 11.0 ypc; 24 kickoff returns, 704 yards, 29.3 ypr, 1 TD) Marqise continues to destroy opposing defenses. Not playing in the PAC 12 Championship (and the fact that Matt Barkley is not throwing to him anymore) may be all that keeps him from having a 2,000 yard season.
5. Johnathan Franklin, RB, UCLA (1,441 yards rushing, 6.2 ypc, 10 TD’s; 286 yards receiving, 2 TD’s) Franklin saved his best for last by ripping rival USC for 171 yards. Franklin’s only downfall is his lack of consistency throughout the season.
+1. Nick Florence, QB, Baylor (3,429 yards passing, 61.6%, 27 TD’s, 13 INT’s; 385 yards rushing, 7 TD’s)
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