BTB Spring Football Part One: Emerging Stars
Part Two: Emerging Teams
It's never too early to start previewing the 2008 college football season.
After a brief hiatus due to the college final exam period, Beyond the Bleachers is back with its third installment of a five-part series that is previewing the 2008 college football season.
This week, Beyond the Bleachers examines the potential Heisman candidates in the Football Bowl Subdivision. From previous Heisman finalists to budding stars, here you'll find a list of the nation’s elite, game-breaking, college football athletes for the upcoming season.
As spring practices have come to a conclusion across the country and the dreaded Quiet and Evaluation Periods are upon us, watch out for these athletes
who may very well be hoisting the 74th Heisman Memorial Trophy in December 2008…
Tim Tebow, junior QB, Florida
The reigning Heisman Trophy and Davey O’Brien Award winner is back for his second year as a full-time starter for the Gators. Next year, he could be even better.
Fresh off of circumcising poor, indigenous Filipino children, Tebow comes back supported by experienced skill players Percy Harvin, Cornelius Ingram, and Louis Murphy, along with talented newcomers Emmanuel Moody, Chris Rainey, and Mon Williams.
With a much-improved supporting cast, it is unlikely that Tebow will put up numbers as high as last year's (172.47 QB rating, 3286 yards, 66.9 completion percentage, 32 TDs, and six INTs).
Nevertheless, the best player on one of the most talented teams in 2008 will have plenty of opportunities to make his push for a second Heisman award—something which has not been accomplished since Archie Griffin in 1974 and ’75.
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