ESPN updates their Heisman rankings after week 5; Where Vols QB Hendon Hooker landed
ESPN updated their "Heisman Five" after Saturday's college football action and Tennessee Vols quarterback Hendon Hooker was included. Hooker is listed at No. 3 in their Heisman rankings. This blurb from ESPN really has nothing to do with Hooker's season so far, but it's amusing nonetheless. From ESPN: Tennessee was off this week, but we […]
ESPN updated their "Heisman Five" after Saturday's college football action and Tennessee Vols quarterback Hendon Hooker was included.
Hooker is listed at No. 3 in their Heisman rankings.
This blurb from ESPN really has nothing to do with Hooker's season so far, but it's amusing nonetheless.
Tennessee was off this week, but we assume Hooker at least got in a game of NCAA Football '14, downloaded new rosters and threw for 600 yards and nine touchdowns against Florida, then sent some taunting text messages to dudes from the 2014 Gators just for fun.
The only quarterbacks listed above Hooker are Alabama's Bryce Young and Ohio State's CJ Stroud.
Interestingly, ESPN dropped Georgia's Stetson Bennett from their rankings after his lackluster performance against Missouri on Saturday night.
From ESPN:
Nearly every week this season, we've gotten an email from a reader accusing us of being a "Georgia homer." It's not true. We're simply biased in favor of teams that win national championships. Still, last week, he noted Stetson Bennett's No. 2 ranking here and asked, "Do you even watch football? How do they let you get away with this stuff?"
Well, dear reader, we'd like to let you know we flipped over to the Georgia-Missouri game several times this week during commercials in the big ULM-Arkansas State tilt, and we must admit — you're right. Bennett did throw for 312 yards, but it was hardly a Heisman-worthy performance against woeful Missouri.
So, we're retiring Bennett from the Heisman Five and simply awarding him a Lifetime Achievement Award, which he can put on his trophy case next to his national championship trophy and his "World's Greatest Dad" coffee mug Alabama's defense gave him for Father's Day this year.
It still seems unlikely that Hooker will win the Heisman — Tennessee would likely need to make the College Football Playoff — but if he maintains his current pace, he should at least be a finalist.
And if Hooker is a finalist, it's going to be massive for the Vols in recruiting.
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