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ESPN Insider Brad Edwards ranks his top 10 Heisman candidates based on the statistics each player posted against different levels of competition.

Story | Conversation | November 29, 2011

Ryan McCrystal takes a look at the Heisman Predictor after Week 1 of the college football season. Landry Jones, Kellen Moore and LaMichael James are all on the list, but it's three newcomer quarterbacks who sit atop the rankings.

Story | Conversation | September 06, 2011

Bruce Feldman ranks the nation's best backfields, with the QB-RB combo of Darron Thomas and LaMichael James earning the Oregon Ducks the No. 1 spot on the list.

Blog | Conversation | July 13, 2011

Five days before Oregon and Auburn knuckle up for the BCS Championship -- and four days after undefeated TCU played not in Glendale, but in Pasadena -- K.C. Joyner looks at the current state of the BCS and how to improve it. It's actually not that bad, he feels, and the solution we need is simple rather than radical.

Story | Conversation | January 05, 2011

The last Heisman Predictor of 2010 goes out like you'd expect: Cam Newton should win, and LaMichael James should finish second -- and those outcomes are completely deserved no matter which way you evaluate the award.

Story | Conversation | December 06, 2010

In his last edition of Heisman Predictor before Championship Weekend, Ryan McCrystal concedes that it's a two-horse race -- Cam Newton and LaMichael James -- and runs through four scenarios, predicting who would win in each case.

Story | Conversation | November 29, 2010

People have had the Iron Bowl circled as a huge game for months. When Alabama lost to LSU, it lost a bit of luster -- but in terms of the Heisman race, this is huge. If Cam Newton can run around the Tide as he's done to everyone else, he'll sew it up.

Story | Conversation | November 22, 2010

Ryan McCrystal's Heisman Predictor arrives at Week 11. The story at the top is the same -- Cam Newton, then LaMichael James -- but watch Marcus Lattimore. If the Gamecocks beat Auburn in the SEC title game, he becomes an intriguing dark horse.

Story | Conversation | November 15, 2010

Bruce Feldman makes his Week 11 CFB picks. Some notables: The Gators should drop the Gamecocks at home; Turner Gill's return to Nebraska isn't going to be pretty; Andrew Luck should keep carving up defenses and Oregon ... in a trap? Probably not.

Blog | Conversation | November 11, 2010

Week 10 of the Heisman Predictor plays out a few different scenarios for the three tiers of contenders -- Cam Newton vs. LaMichael James is the first tier, then some Big Ten skill guys in the second tier and, finally, Kellen Moore and Andy Dalton.

Story | Conversation | November 08, 2010

Not much changed in the Heisman race on "Roadblock Saturday," so the Heisman Predictor model looks ahead. If Auburn and Oregon were both to lose, here's a plan where Ricky Stanzi, John Clay or Terrelle Pryor could jump ahead and win the Heisman.

Story | Conversation | November 01, 2010

Predictably, the No. 1 guy in the Heisman Predictor standings after Week 8 is Cam Newton. He has a 13-point lead over LaMichael James. But, if Alabama drops Auburn big in the Iron Bowl, two other QBs -- Blaine Gabbert, Terrelle Pryor -- could sneak in.

Story | Conversation | October 25, 2010

Bruce Feldman loves Cam Newton as much as the next media member, but he's not the only newcomer to the college football scene excelling this year -- have you checked out Tony Jefferson, Robert Woods and others?

Blog | Conversation | October 20, 2010

Terrelle Pryor and Taylor Martinez both lost in Week 7; with the disappearance of an undefeated season, both the OSU and Nebraska QBs fell in Heisman Predictor standings. Cam Newton stays No. 1, and two RBs are No. 2 and No. 3.

Story | Conversation | October 18, 2010

Bruce Feldman recaps the first weekend of October in college football. He was at the Oregon win over Stanford, and spoke with LaMichael James afterward. The stud RB was thinking about daisies before hanging more than 200 yards on the Cardinal.

Blog | Conversation | October 03, 2010

Bruce Feldman makes his Week 5 picks. He likes Bama and Oregon in the marquee games of this weekend, but he scatters a few surprises along the way -- one in the ACC, one in a prime-time game, and more. Plus: a change in philosophy for UGA.

Blog | Conversation | September 30, 2010