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It would make little sense to include Postseason stats and games in MVP and Heisman voting. As every team doesn't play in the postseason. It's a regular season award because its equal footing for all the players who play an equal amount of games in the regular season.

Stats are one thing, awards are another. It will always be a regular season award as almost every sports awards are.


The awards are primarily based on stats so they aren't really one thing and then another. And any Heisman winner is going to be in a bowl game.
 
The awards are primarily based on stats so they aren't really one thing and then another.
And any Heisman winner is going to be in a bowl game.

Paul Hornung says "hi". :bang:
 
Was there anyone else that could have won over Mac in 87? Numbers don't seem very impressive but obviously being QB for an undefeated team is highly valued and offenses back then didn't know what they were doing.
 
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...would have been my choice.

I wish they waited until after the bowl games to decide. We use the bowl games to decide the national championship, why not the Heisman?

To fill in the space between the regular season ending and the start of the bowls . yesterday was depressing without a full slate of games. army/navy and the Heisman. put army/navy on a normal sat and the ratings get cut in half.
 
Was there anyone else that could have won over Mac in 87? Numbers don't seem very impressive but obviously being QB for an undefeated team is highly valued and offenses back then didn't know what they were doing.

McPherson lost due to there not being a thousands sports talk radio stations, 6 different ESPN stations and about 10 other 24/7 all sports cable stations on top of a hundred regional sports channels. 1987 was a different world, every college football game wasn't on TV and there weren't hundreds of breakdown and analysis shows throughout the course of the week.

Notre Dame always is the #1 team that will get the most coverage in college football every year and that helped Brown. Most voters probably never saw McPherson play, couldn't pick him out of a police lineup, and knew next to nothing about Syracuse football.

Transport that 1987 season to the "modern era" we live in now and McPherson wins every time. But in that era in that 1987 "world" with the lack of coverage its not surprising Brown won.
 
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That is true. UL had a really easy schedule this season. NC State, Syracuse, Wake, Duke, Virginia and BC were the dregs of the conference and somehow they played them all.

Losing to Houston and Kentucky wasn't great either.

Watson had a lot of talent surrounding him and the expectations were so great it was almost impossible to have a season most would consider great.

The thing is, Jackson was so spectacular. He is the kind of talent you see maybe once a decade in college football. Those kinds of players tend to win Heismans...
... and it took a Heisman-worthy TD pass w/13 seconds left to beat that "dreg". AMOF some folks say that pass may have won it for him.
 

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