I winced when I saw it happen. Knees aren’t made to bend like that.

Moving on, the latter part of the Heisman Trophy curse is as follows: if you win the Heisman Trophy and you are on a team who will play for the national championship, you are going to lose the game. This part of the supposed curse is harder to disprove. Since the BCS was implemented in 1998, Heisman Trophy winners have played in 3 of the 6 games, all of them being quarterbacks (Jason White, Eric Crouch, and Chris Weinke), and all 3 of their teams lost in the championship by more than a touchdown. In fact, they all tend to play very poorly. The best example of this is in 2000, when Chris Weinke and the high-powered Florida State Seminole offense could not even move the ball, much less put a single offensive point on the board in the Orange Bowl, which was won 13-2 by the Oklahoma Sooners and their Heisman Trophy runner-up quarterback Josh Heuple.

This curse goes beyond recent BCS history as well. In fact, if you win the Heisman Trophy and play for the Miami Hurricanes, you are destined to lose the championship game. Miami’s 2 Heisman Trophy winners, Vinny Testaverde (1986) and Gino Torretta (1992) both lost the national championships. In the last 20 years, only Danny Wuerffel (1996) has won the national championship game after winning the Heisman Trophy. That year, Wuerffel’s Florida Gators beat their in-state rival Florida State Seminoles in the Sugar Bowl. This curse is not confined to championship games only. In the past 30 years, Heisman Trophy winners have lost more than half of the bowl games they played in, not just the national championship game. He may end up like Jason White…..hometown insurance rep……with a Heisman on his desk…….

If you can’t stand Tebow now, wait until next year when the Gators drop Auburn from the schedule and catch LSU in Gainsville. Tebow walks off with the award and goes pro. Thank God.

You are basically staring at the cold hard numbers that show the SEC as not having fantastic defense this year and saying “Hmm, the SEC always has good defense! That couldn’t possibly change!”

Now there’s a guy with a sound head on his shoulders.

OK, I realize I’m just pacing the electronic halls here, waiting for
the next most important game we’ll ever play (this week). I must
have something better to do than roam around the national sports
cyber corridors engaging in a pedantic statistical argument orgy.

This is _so_ not me!!!

Heaven help us if we compete for the NC and the Heisman race every year.

So, for the record:

Dixon has played in one less game at this point.
Dixon’s completion percentage is a shade better (67.9% to Tebow’s 67.8%).
Dixon had better not have 20+ rushing touchdowns, else that means
we didn’t get Stewart in the game, or Crenshawe in the game, and
opposing defenses had to watch only one guy.
Dixon has thrown only 3 interceptions to Tebow’s 5 (and really, only 1 genuine bad throw – 1 was a tip and the other was a Hail Mary with a second left before half-time for the fun of it).

The last tis really key.

Good decisions, good decisions, good decisions.

Unbelievable consistency, drive after drive. Mistake free football.

It wins games. It *wins* games.

It’s going to win Oregon a National Championship, if they can keep it up.

It WINS games. Period. Nothing else quite soothes the soul, now, does it.

Dennis Dixon: Damn, I can’t sleep.

Ghost of Heismans Past: It’s OK, Dennis, it’s OK. These things happen. People know you were great. You had a great career. You’ll win the NC.

Dennis Dixon: It was that damn talking baby, wasn’t it.

Ghost of Heisman s Past: You’d better believe it.

Are we talking about the SEC defense that let Cal score 45 points, Bama 41, and Florida 59 on it this year (Tenn)? Or the one that allowed West Virginia 31 in the first fricking quarter and a half (MSU)? Maybe you are referring to the one that let Mizzu stack up yardage and 38 points? Nah, you must be speaking of the one that let Kent State rush for 320 yards (Kentucky).

Florida has hung 59, 30, 51, 45, and 49 on SEC defenses. They’ve also had 42 hung on them once this year.

Or are you doing the same thing that every SEC fan does, pick the best attribute of the best team in the conference and make it symbolize the entire conference….see Steve Spurrier’s Gators when he brought the fun and gun, and yes, speed, to the SEC.

Of course, women should really never have a say in anything. Maybe they should get started on dinner, instead. Holly and I are hungry.

We have tougher Defenses in the SEC.

CHEWBACCA.