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Who's Your Ingram? How About the Reigning Champion -- Mark Ingram?

Life has changed for Mark Ingram. A year ago, he was a relatively unheralded running back preparing for his sophomore season at the University of Alabama. These days, Ingram is preparing for his junior campaign and doing so with a title attached to his name. In 2009, Ingram became Alabama's first Heisman Trophy...

The Big Ten's Heisman Candidate List Begins and Ends With Pryor

When the Big Ten stages its annual football media days in Chicago next week, 33 players (three from each school) will be in attendance. Missing, however, will be the conference's marquee player and its only viable candidate for the Heisman trophy: Terrelle Pryor. Ohio State coach Jim Tressel prefers giving a trio of...

Big East Conference Heisman Candidates: Small Ballers Emerge

Historically, the Big East's connection to the Heisman Trophy has been minimal with but two winners among the current eight-school membership. In other words, don't get your hopes up too much in any given year -- although the conference does it in style when fate smiles upon it. Syracuse's Ernie Davis was the award's first...

ACC Heisman Winners a Rarity but League Isn't Lacking for Candidates

There's no need for a calculator or fancy math. Heisman Trophy winners from the Atlantic Coast Conference have been few and far between. Ready? There have been just two -- quarterbacks Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke, both, of course, from Florida State. Ward won it 1993 and Weinke in 2000. The ACC has a few loose ties to...

Non-BCS Heisman Candidates Looking to End 20-Year Drought

The Heisman Trophy is the greatest, most recognized individual award in sports. It's also been dancing with all the pretty girls of late, with nary a winner from outside a current BCS conference since BYU's Ty Detmer took home the prize in 1990. With the recent surge by outsiders like Boise State, TCU and Utah, there may...