Beanie Wells: No Hope for the Heisman

So all Beanie Wells Heisman Talk ends now. He is useless. I don't care if he runs up 2,500 yards this year playing against the pee-wee Big 10.

He got hurt playing the massively dangerous Youngstown State Penguins, playing in the third quarter while Coach Jim "Not Woody Hayes" Tressel attempted to help him pad his Heisman stats. Well, guess what doesn't pad your Heisman stats? Not playing in the biggest game of your career.

Randy Latham, a football analyst, said, "If Beanie Wells does not play today with anything less than a broken leg, then he is completely off the Heisman Radar. Essentially, Beanie Wells is an over hyped Big 10 nobody. If he doesn't play Saturday, he should be out of Heisman consideration completely, and Ohio State out of the Top 20."

"The Game of The Century" has been a dud already, before kickoff. All you will hear from this game are excuses for the next three months.

As for those who were making the argument late Jan. 7-8, 2008, that LSU did not even deserve to be in the BCS National Title game and that the game should have been a match up between USC and Ohio State can keep dreaming. Today is going to be a showing of why the PAC 10 owns the Big 10.

Much speculation has been made that Jim Tressel is keeping Beanie Wells out of the game to keep both the Buckeye's BCS and Beanie Wells' Heisman hopes alive. Much of this orbits the idea that OSU can lobby for a rematch against USC if the BCS National Title was on the line with the "our star player didn't even play because he was hurt" ploy.

"A bad showing, as expected, by Ohio State and Beanie Wells failing to pick up even 50 yards would essentially kill their season," Said Dinky McConnell, a football analyst, "And for the Big 10, that would be devastating if Ohio State wins the conference."

"I'm not sure he'll ever speak to me again, but I think it's the right thing to do," Tressel said. Tressel said the decision to not play Wells was his alone after talking the matter over with medical personnel. The coach said he is concerned that letting Wells play might expose him to further risk of injury, limiting Ohio State against later opponents and possibly damaging Beanie Wells' NFL stock.

(Ironically, the blog titled "Beanie Wells For Heisman" has been shut down in the last 12 hours. Fitting.)

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