Stiffarmtrophy.com, which has correctly predicted each of the past seven Heisman winners--and more impressively, believe, predicted that Bradford would win last year but Tebow would receive more first-place votes--has released their final projections of the Heisman ballot, based on just over one-third of all votes.  They are "reasonably confident that Mark Ingram will win the Trophy," with 48.1 percent of the maximum votes, followed closely by either Toby Gerhart or Ndamukong Suh ("With less than a two-point gap, it's too close to call"), with Colt McCoy a lock for fourth, and Tim Tebow a lock for fifth. 

Of note, however, is that they are projecting that Ingram will actually receive the THIRD most first-place votes, with Suh receiving the most and Gerhart the second-most.

I got bored at work this evening, so I decided to create the Top 25 that many bloggers and blog readers seem to be clamoring for: a Top 25 in which no team is ranked above a team it has lost to.  I've heard many people complain about Penn State being ranked above Iowa or Oklahoma State being ranked above Houston, but I never really thought about how easy/difficult it would be to create a Top 25 in which no team was ranked above a team to whom it had lost.  This Top 25 was creating using the 41 teams currently receiving votes in the AP and Coaches' polls and all of the teams to whom they have lost.  Surprisingly, there are only two real awkward clusters.  The USF/FSU/BYU/Oklahoma quadrangle appears at the end of the Top 25 because, while USF is at the top of that particular pyramid, I just don't think that they are better than the teams above them.  You'll also find that USC and Ohio State are not on this list.  That is because USC's bad loss was compounded by Washington's losses, which were compounded by Stanford's losses, which were compounded by Baylor's losses, etc.  So, without further ado:

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     Lost in the hustle and bustle of this weekend was Southern Miss star sophomore receiver DeAndre Brown's return to action following last season's horrific leg break (warning: extremely graphic) against Troy in the New Orleans Bowl.  Just nine months later he was back in action Saturday against UCF, totaling seven catches for 75 yards.  Brown lit up Conference-USA as a freshman, catching 67 passes for 1117 yards and 12 TDs, including a 12 reception, 221 yard, 4 touchdown day against Rice last October.  Brown aggravated the injury this summer but, after sitting out last week's opener against Alcorn State, he was back in action again.  It's great to see him come back from that injury (especially given the experience Bama has with receivers breaking their leg) since he has such great talent.  I wish him the absolute best moving foward.