Heisman Trophy Winner Robert Griffin III: Surprised It Wasn't Closer?

When the Heisman Trophy award winner was announced, it wasn't much of a surprise to see Baylor's Robert Griffin III's name be called.

That being said, in an article on ESPN by The Associated Press, Robert Griffin won the Heisman Trophy convincingly over Stanford's Andrew Luck:

"

"Griffin received 405 first-place votes and 1,687 points. Luck received 247 first-place votes and 1,407 points."

"

So, Griffin won the first-place voting alone by 158 votes, which is big in comparison to what most felt prior to the results being released.

Therefore, was it somewhat surprising that he ran away in the actual results?

No.

For starters, Griffin did play a more difficult schedule in having to face teams like Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Kansas State, and TCU. As for Andrew Luck, it was really just Oregon, USC, and Notre Dame.

Additionally, Stanford has a much, much better defense than Baylor.

Just in points allowed alone the Cardinal defense was impenetrable in comparison to the Bears. On the year Stanford allowed just 20.3 points per game ranking them No. 23 in the nation.

As for Baylor, they allowed 35.7 points per game ranked them No. 109 in the nation. Thing is, there are 120 schools, so for a team like Baylor to finish 9-3 with an abysmal defense is quite impressive.

With that in mind, Baylor had no chance to win unless Robert Griffin stepped up and dominated, which he did. Even though Luck had a great season too, there wasn't as much pressure on him to play well each game in order to win.

He had much help from his defense whereas Griffin needed to outscore every single team, and basically do it by himself. That is something you can't measure by stats as both put up outstanding numbers and Stanford finished 11-1.

Now, if you do compare the numbers, Griffin wins that battle also.

With almost 4,000 passing yards, 36 TDs to just six INTs, and a 72.4 completion percentage, Robert Griffin had better numbers across the board than Andrew Luck.

As for Luck, he still had over 3,100 passing yards, 35 TDs to just nine INTs, and a 70 percent completion percentage. So for as great as those numbers were, Griffin did better on a weaker team against a tough schedule.

Nonetheless however, both will be expect Top 10 draft picks and with their body of work in college, potential in the NFL is very high.

Follow John Rozum on Twitter @ Sportswriter27