Heisman News

Here's a new profile of Colt Brennan from the AP.

USA Today makes cases for and against the four Heisman finalists, while USA Today's Christine Brennan writes about casting her first place Heisman vote for C. Brennan.

With the kind of record-setting year and career Colt Brennan has had, combined with the fact that he is the only quarterback in Division I-A football to lead his team to an undefeated season, I asked myself a very simple question the other day:

How could this C. Brennan not vote for that C. Brennan?

No, this was a legit first-place vote for one of the four players who has been invited to New York for Saturday night's Heisman announcement. This was a real vote for a once-troubled player who seemingly has gotten his act together at the University of Hawaii to become the most dominant throwing quarterback the NCAA has ever seen, including a stellar junior year, in 2006, when he threw for a record 58 touchdowns. He also holds the NCAA record for most touchdown passes in a career, with 131.

We just so happen to share the same last name, and the same initials. As best as I can tell, we are not related. We have Ireland in common, but so do millions of other people, and that was a long time ago, even before Keith Jackson started calling college games.

I had never spoken with Colt until Wednesday. "I appreciate the vote," he said over a cellphone on his way to a journalism class on the Hawaii campus. "I've met a lot of Brennans over the past few years. It's a name people take a lot of pride in. I know I do."

Did he wish that there were perhaps a few more Brennans in the sports media voting for the Heisman this year?

"That would be nice," Colt Brennan said with a laugh.

Here's the UH Athletic Department's press release about Colt's selection.

And here's video from Liz Chun's KGMB news report about it, with some quotes from Colt from today's press conference. Chun also reports on the ticket fiasco.