FanHouse Archie Griffin

With the recent passing of Doc "Mr. Inside" Blanchard, FanHouse takes a stab at naming the five greatest living Heisman Trophy winners

In a game that spans many eras, any task like this is exceedingly difficult and fraught with contradiction. With all the nostalgia built into the Heisman Trophy and the game of college football, we're buying into it with a less clinical, more emotional effort at ranking players. There's a bias towards the modern, towards a player being associated with the trophy and towards those that most captured peoples' imaginations.

It didn't even take him a half. In the third quarter, Iowa's Shonn Greene has 134 yards on 18 carries, meaning no one has held him under 100 yards this season. Turnovers, penalties, and special teams woes have kept Purdue in the game, however. The Hawkeyes have missed two PATs, fumbled once, and have committed two drive-sustaining defensive penalties.

Purdue's Curtis Painter lived up to some of his preseason hype right before halftime, leading the Boilermakers on a quick hurry-up drive which ended with a 12-yard touchdown pass to Desmond Tardy. Iowa's Daniel Murray, hero of last week's game, added a 45-yard field goal early in the third quarter.

Greene isn't close to the all-time record of consecutive 100-yard games. That belongs to Ohio State's Archie Griffin, who had 31 in a row from September 1973 to November 1975. Greene only has one year of elegibility remaining, so he can't catch Griffin if he decides to return for his senior season. He can tie the NCAA record of 12 100-yard games in one season, currently held by Oklahoma's Quentin Griffin and Chadron State's Danny Woodhead.

Greene won't get any Heisman love, because as we all know, college football's most outstanding player is always on a team in the national title hunt.

UPDATE: Greene finished with 30 carries for 209 yards and 2 touchdowns in Iowa's 22-17 victory.

Ohio State was only allocated 4,000 tickets for the Texas - Ohio State game, but that's apparently not going to stop Ohio State fans from attending. The Vice-President of the Austin area Ohio State alumni association says they're "projecting 35,000 or 40,000 people" to arrive in Austin for the big game. I find it pretty amazing to think that many people are headed down to Texas just to be close to the Buckeyes, because I'm sure many won't make it into the stadium.

The Ohio State Alumni Association has rented out the 16,000 seat Erwin Center for a pregame party, and they'll be marching over to Texas Memorial Stadium with the Ohio State marching band before the game. Archie Griffin will be speaking at the Erwin Center.

Ohio State's fan base never ceases to amaze me. I'm not sure if anyone who's never gone to Ohio State or lived in Columbus can really ever understand how crazy people are about this team. It's awesome to see.

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