At this point, it's probably Jameis Winston's to lose.

HOWEVER...

...if something comes of this sexual assault allegation, can someone come up with a good reason to not give the award to Jordan Lynch?

Go back and look at the voting in 1989 and 1990, when Andre Ware and Ty Detmer won the award, respectively. No clear-cut favorites those years either and they both were not from traditional power leagues. In my research for about as far as I could dig, Lynch is only the third player to rush for more than 300 yards twice in a single season. The other two were Barry Sanders who had four (which is just insane) and Ricky Williams who did it back-to-back. Both were Heisman winners.

http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/awards/heisman-1989.html

http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/awards/heisman-1990.html
 
We know Lynch plays in the MAC. But for argument's sake, the MAC has just as many bowl eligible teams as the Big Ten and Mountain West, and has more than the Big 12, AAC or Sun Belt. NIU is headed for their second straight BCS game out of this crap league and has beaten two Big Ten teams to get there. Granted, Purdue is awful, but Iowa is no slouch. They've lost a total of four games to NIU, Ohio State, Michigan State and Wisconsin, whose combined record is 44-4. Iowa made Devin Gardner look like a third grader when they played Michigan.

I'm jumping on the Huskie bandwagon from this point on, and hope Lynch rushes for another 300 against BGSU. Seems like the talking heads may be coming around too... http://espn.go.com/college-football/heisman/

Why not Lynch?

we'll at least you're not being overly selective with a narrow set of data points (from last year) to make a point. Because we all know, if a player from a non AQ school even has 1 bad game against an AQ school it means he's not talented enough to EVER do any better against another AQ school ever again.

In 2 games this year against, as you put it, teams from the "big money leagues", Lynch was a combined 43/66 for 482yds, 6 TDs and 0 INTs and 31 carries for 91yds and 1 TD on the ground in 2 road WINS.

But that doesn't fit the same tired, worn out, narrative that successful players or teams in the MAC are only successful because they're in the MAC.

the only thing that is pedestrian is your tired Dr Gee talking points.

its not even a matter of new coach, home field, etc. its just that in the game of football things happen, thats part of what makes it exciting. One game is just one game. Now if they lost 4 BCS bowl games...

I use the example of Notre Dame when people say NIU doesn't "deserve" another chance to play in a BCS Bowl after last year, or it proves that any MAC should never get a chance, etc.

Notre Dame is 0-4 all time in BCS Bowls, the final scores were-
42-14
41-14
34-20
41-9

NIU's one BCS bowl-
31-10 (NIU's defense was better than every ND defense, btw)

3 of those 4 ND losses rank in top 10 largest blowouts in BCS bowl history. Using the same sweeping judgment used against NIU there's no way in hell ND should ever be allowed in a major bowl ever again.

And since that game, neither team has lost.

The knock on Lynch will be the same as Bridgewater and O$U's Miller face: soft opposition.  NIU's MAC opponents were combined 36-60 (36-52 if you don't count their game vs NIU), its three D1A opponents were 10-26 (10-23) and its 1AA opponent was 11-1 (11-0).  Overall NIU's opponents were 57-87 (57-75) but the D1A opponents were 46-86 (46-75).  Some -- particularly the AQ snobs -- may discount his stats because of this.

BTW, USAT's Heisman survey has him at #2 this week behind Winston.

A recent ESPN projection (based on a poll of voters) had Lynch finishing second.

Lynch certainly benefits from being heard of but not seen for the most part. But, geez, if last night is a true reflection of how his spiral looks... Duck says Qvawk... then I don't think he is or was the best college football player of the season.