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FWIW, every single commentator on CFN
has Dixon #1 this week. Herbstreit has him #1 as well and in a national poll on ESPN, over half the country said he's the frontrunner. Saying that he can't win the award because he plays in the Pac-Ten is borderline insane IMO.
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I'll believe it if it happens.
When's the last time someone from the pac 10, not USC, has won it?
I'm sure the excuse will be he's splitting votes with Stewart. So, not insane. Plausable actually.
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That's stupid. It's like saying when's the last time someone from the ACC won the award that didn't play for Florida State? Well, Florida State dominated the conference for a while and there didn't happen to be any contenders the years that they didn't so no one else won the trophy. So, no one from the ACC but Florida State has ever won the trophy. Likewise, USC has won a lot of Pac-Ten titles and when they weren't winning, no Heisman candidates emerged, so no one else has won the trophy since 1970 (Jim Plunkett).
Also, if you do include USC (and why wouldn't you), the Pac-Ten has 3 of the last 5 Heisman trophies. The SEC which is supposedly the conference everyone favors only has 1 Heisman winner in the last 20 years (Danny Wuerffel). The idea that people still talk about West-Coast bias as if it's relevant to the modern-day is ridiculous.