NCAA Football 2005 Heisman Trophy -- First Season

It was probably one of the closest race I've ever seen on the game.  Very exciting to see the vote totals come in.

My senior running back for Michigan, David Underwood, finished 5th.  He had rushed for over 1500 yards and scored 20 TD's, but it pales in comparison to what the 1st and 2nd place finishers got.

In 2nd place, was USC QB Matt Leinart.  He led the voting in 1st place votes, 2nd place votes, and still finished second in the running.  As for the Heisman Trophy winner, that was North Texas running back Patrick Cobbs, who rushed well over 2200 yards on the season.  Cobbs had more 3rd place votes, and in the end, finished with only 8 more points than Leinart did.  In fact, now in real life, he was last year's leading NCAA D-1 rusher with over 1600 yards on the ground, and he didn't even play in 2 games that year!

Cobbs is going to graduate from NCAA Football and will be imported into Madden 2005, along with Leinart and Underwood.  This all should make for a very interesting draft after the first season of Madden is complete!