All-time Heisman "WTF?"s (please add)

Last night's award got me thinking about Heisman "WTF?" moments. Some Heisman Trophies go down, some almost immediately, as "they got this one wrong" moments. Interestingly, the increase in underclassmen winning the HT increases the chance that a Heisman winner will "bust" before he even leaves college. Ingram becomes one of the more remarkable winners in averaging fifty fewer yards per game than the combined stats of the previous 17 running backs to win it, scoring 35% fewer touchdowns than the national TD rush leader, being outrushed by a backup in three games, failing to break 100 yards in five games and being benched in a rivalry game. My feeling is there's a strong likelihood that this year becomes a quick "WTF" moment in Heisman history, especially if Ingram has a poor bowl game or a mediocre year (after all, the Bama fans were telling us that his backup was so good he had to split time with him, and the situation could easily reverse itself next season). What is even sadder to me is that Suh finishes a considerably distant third despite being the most dominant defensive player in the game since Steve Emtman or Charles Woodson. That result really calls the HT's credibility into question, as it's really just an award for ballcarries (I don't use the term "skill position.") People will probably look back on Colt McCoy and wonder how he got out-Heismaned twice, and Ingram has a LOT of work to do to be as accomplished a ballplayer as McCoy. (My bias admitted: I'm a Stanford grad school alum and I think Toby Gerhart got jobbed - by SEC bias, media groupthink, the power of Alabama's overall team, preseason and early-season hype, and the Pac-10's horrific media deal that puts games on the laughable FSN/CSN and Versus networks. Even people who are looking for the games on the east coast have trouble finding them.) Without further ado, here are some of my other Heisman WTF moments: -1999: Ron Dayne winning over Michael Vick. He won because he broke Ricky Williams' rushing record from the year before, but Dayne was routinely lame against the Big Ten's power teams, particularly Michigan, and benefitted from scheduling quirks that kept him away from the conference powers in convenient years. Vick led VT to the Sugar Bowl that year with routinely spectacular play. -2000: Chris Weinke over Josh Heupel. Weinke was kept in games to run up the score and propel Florida State to an undeserved berth in the national championship game. Heupel was throwing to converted running backs and throwaway receivers and still had knockout stats. This strategy backfired when FSU had no experienced QBs, which begat the Chris Rix Era.) -1995: Eddie George over Tommie Frazier. How did Frazier's sheer running ability AND the skill to run the system that mauled Nebraska's opponents left and right get beat by George, especially after Tim Biakabutuka outplayed George in the Michigan game? -1992: Gino Toretta from Miami. Not sure who he beat in the voting, but he was totally exposed by Alabama in the Sugar Bowl that year, which should have been a sign the voting should be postponed to include the bowl games. -2004: The right guy (Leinart) won it, but Jason White came in third - after having been exposed in last year's Big XII Championship and Sugar Bowl games, and with Adrian Peterson on his team, I'm not sure what business he had getting that many votes the second time around. -1956: Paul Hornung on a 2-9 team over Johnny Majors from Tennessee and two guys from Oklahoma. THIS is the incident that started Big Orange Nation's Heist-man paranoia. Total Notre Dame bias at play. Hornung also turned out to be a gambler and a shirker from his draft duty, both of which bit him in the rear during his pro career. -Not a Heisman WTF, but Major Applewhite should and would have won one if Mack Brown had not benched him for the overhyped, inferior and disastrous-in-big-games Chris Simms.