Troy Smith...Heisman?

Now, I'm not one of those writers who realizes too little too late that I've placed the wrong man on my Heisman ballot. However, I am one of those guys who has been saying since the tenth week that the rightful Heisman winner is Brady Quinn.
I remember watching last year's National Championship and with seventeen seconds left in the game, also remember almost deficating myself. This was easily one of the best bowl games I've ever seen which is up there with the '03 National Championship and this year's Fiesta Bowl.
For weeks I'd been saying that Florida simply did not belong and how a better title matchup should've been OSU/USC or OSU/Michigan, nonetheless chose to do something for the BCS Championship game. Like any college football fan I called up the guys, got some pizza, some beer and opted to sit down and enjoy what would be a knock-down, drag-out brawl of football between two great squads...and what do I get...besides drunk? I received a boring slap in the face.
The Allstate Sugar Bowl this year was closer than the National Championship. The scores were the same, but JaMarcus Russell and LSU were fumbling and throwing interceptions (as were the Irish). It wasn't even until the third quarter that things looked to be getting out of hand. When Ted Ginn Jr. took a kickoff in for a touchdown, I was expecting a rout by OSU and when Florida answered back with a perfect drive (and I mean perfect), I knew immediately that Ohio State's number one scoring defense was going down. Which also meant that the front four of Florida were going to make life hell for Troy Smith.
Call it a total team collapse, call it fate, call it muscle relaxant in OSU's Gatorade. One thing that I will call it is this, a failure by Troy Smith. I only do this because this is how the media has chosen to label big games that are lost by big points:

Michigan @ Notre Dame: Quinn comes up short

Notre Dame @ USC: Quinn comes up short

Notre Dame @ (in New Orleans, yeah I think that deserves an "@") LSU: Quinn comes up short...again

OSU v. Florida: Total team collapse

Forget that in the game against USC or Michigan, Rhema McKnight, Jeff Samardzija, and other Irish receivers dropped big balls for third and even forth down conversions. Forget that the Irish defense couldn't muster a strong secondary in the second half which let Dwayne Jarrett play catch with Booty or Manningham with Henne. Forget that the Irish run game couldn't get started in either of those matchups. Do we blame the offensive line, how about the coaching staff, maybe even the defense? No, of course not, we wish to blame Brady Quinn for failing to win.
I will say that Brady Quinn is partly to blame for the LSU loss. Part of the fault must be on the Irish defense, but most of the blame has to come onto the coaching staff for not allowing Darius Walker to continuing eating the LSU defense to pieces. However, Quinn didn't have a chump night 15/35 for 148 yards 2 TDs and 2 INTs. Surely not his best night ever, but nowhere near some of the nights I've seen QBs have...so mediocre at best.
For most critics, OSU v. Florida is dismissed as a OSU team blow-up. Give me a break, I'm willing to say the LSU secondary is just as good as the Florida secondary and Quinn could still find receievers. The LSU pass rush wasn't as good as Florida's, but given Troy Smith's out of this world ability to play great under fire, it should've been no problem.
Remember what the Heisman is, an honor for the best player in college football. 4/14, 35 yards, and an interception are the numbers that Troy Smith put up against the Gators. I guess my real complaint is this, if you are willing to blame the OSU squad for blowing up, you have to blame the ND squad for blowing up three times. The issue is placing blame squarely on Brady Quinn who is not at fault, but since these are the dirty rules the voters want to play by, then I'll play by them too...
Heisman Winner Troy Smith comes up short in National Championship