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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1454181, member: 289"]
Bill Jaust on the old "Sportswriters on TV" show from Chicago kept lauding Tim Brown's " phantom yards": those yards other plays gained because the defense had to pay attention to Brown. My two thoughts in response:

1) if you start talking about "phantom yards" to argue that somebody should get a Heisman, that sounds like you don't have enough of an argument involving real yards. 
2) A quarterback is in on every play. Arguably all his team's yards are in some part a result of his play.

in 1986 Vinnie Testeverde led the nation in passing and his team to a perfect record and finished way ahead of 3rd place Tim Brown, who had a better year than he did in '87. Don McPherson led the nation in passing and his team to a perfect record and finshed behind Tim Brown that year. Go figure.

Of course it helped Brown, the pre-season favorite as anointed by the media, that 25% of the Heisman voters sent their votes in before the season was over, (on columnist announced he was sending his in after the second game), and another 25% didn't bother to vote at all. And, of course the Heisman vote is before the bowl games, (even though the national championship is decided afterward). We got tied by Auburn but Donnie was MVP while Texas A&M clobbered Notre Dame 35-10 in the Cotton Bowl.

By the way, Jim Brown didn't just lose to Paul Hornung in 1956. he finished 5th in the voting. 
[URL]http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/awards/heisman-1956.html[/URL]
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