Heisman Watch (My vote)

This is different than my previous Heisman Watches because instead of ranking the player's chances at winning the Heisman, I'm listing how I'd vote (if I had a vote.  I will at some point!)  I'll have a prediction on who wins the Heisman later this week and extend my streak of successfully predicting the top 3 for four straight years.  Anyways here would be my ballot if I had one.

1.  Johnny Manziel QB Texas A&M

Before Manziel began this year, A&M was know for being an underachieving program.  Always with a ton of potential to be great, they never were.  Manziel's talent and leadership really turned around this team and now are the hottest team in college football.  Manziel has been dynamic this year.  He has 4,600 total yards which set an SEC single season record.  Pair that up with his 43 TDs and it's hard not see why everybody loves him.  Even as a freshman he is the best player in the country and would end up being the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy.  I wonder what his next three years will bring.

2.  Collin Klein QB Kansas State
It's a shame that everybody is forgetting about Collin Klein.  Klein was the favorite for most of the season, but a sort of bad game in a loss against Baylor and he gets dropped in people's minds.  Yeah Manziel deserves it more than he does, but Klein desrves 2nd place.  Just looking at the KState team and you'll see that Klein meant so much to them.  He was their offense.  He had 37 TDs on the year.  3,380 combined yards.  Quite impressive considering that opposing defenses knew exactly what he was going to do, but still couldn't stop it.  But it's too bad he won't finish 2nd, mainly because he plays at KState.

3.  Jarvis Jones OLB Georgia
You aren't seeing Jones in any finalists lists for the Heisman, but that's a shame.  The award is suppose to go to the best player in college football this year and Jones is one of them.  Manti Te'o is getting a lot of hype about possibility of winning the Heisman Trophy and I don't get it.  Te'o is good, but he's getting attention because how good the Irish defense is.  Jones has been the far better player.  Jones has 12.5 sacks, 19 QB hurries, 7 forced fumbles, and 1 INT on the year.  Jones has just dominated games.  Against Missouri he was a one man wrecking crew.  You can't say that about Te'o.  Sure he may have more tackles, but Jones has been one of the most dominate players this year.

4.  Marqise Lee WR USC

Going into the season it was his teammate Robert Woods that was getting all the attention.  But it was Lee who really shined this year despite the struggles of his own team.  Lee was dynamic all season long, hauling in 112 receptions for 1680 yards.  That's astonishing considering the Trojans liked to run the ball.  Heck they even had him working at CB in practice because of the lack of depth and poor play there.  Lee is clearly one of the top 5 players in the country and I'd have no issues with him finishing higher either.  Defenses just had no answer for him.

5.  Braxton Miller QB Ohio State
Even though Ohio State finished 12-0 and Braxton Miller finished one heck of a sophomore year.  Could you imagine how much better they could be with more weapons on offense?  But I guess that goes to show how good of a season Miller truly had.  Miller finished with 3,310 total yards of offense and 28 touchdowns.  He did this with defenses knowing he was going to have the ball in his hands.  Miller could be higher on this list.  But his final couple of games he was just average.  You wonder if the Buckeyes would have been able to play in the Big 10 Title game could have put him higher on the list?  Who knows.