Sucks to be Colt McCoy, doesn’t it? Blame the schedule, or the Big 12 tiebreaker system – after losing at Texas Tech with :01 left, the Longhorns quietly rolled over vastly inferior opponents in the final few weeks of the regular season.

But McCoy could barely get any national face-time in the last five weeks, when all eyes were on Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford (three Saturday night ABC games that the nation was treated to) and Florida’s Tim Tebow (vs. rival FSU and vs. Alabama). Out of sight, out of mind, right?

Not so, says Lee Corso! These guys have a scientific method to their madness, and claim to have nailed six Heisman winners in a row. They are projecting McCoy narrowly over Bradford, with Tebow a distant third. Heisman Pundit, which thinks pretty highly of itself, believes there’s no media consensus yet.

Quickly looking at each player:

Bradford – Insane stats (4400 yards, 48 TDs), but they were compiled against a league known to be devoid of defense. If you vote stats, he’s your guy. Since the Texas loss, he’s thrown 25 TDs and one pick.
McCoy - Beat Bradford head-to-head, and he didn’t lose the game against Texas Tech so much as his defense did. You know the sport is missed up when one play two months ago will decide who wins the Heisman and who plays for the National title.
Tebow – Stats are down from last year, but he just beat the No. 1 team in the country at a neutral site without his team’s second best player.

As effecient as Bradford has been, he lost, on a neutral field, to McCoy. And we couldn’t go Tebow over both of them, considering he had a better season last year … so our pick is McCoy.