The Davey O'Brien finalists have been announced.  The three are...

...drumroll...

Colt "Gritty Texas Kid 'snubbed by BCS'" McCoy - Anybody surprised?

Sam Bradford - Anybody surprised?

And...not Tim Tebow.   What??  NOT Tim Tebow??

Nope, the other finalist is Texas Tech's own Graham Harrell!  Now, don't get too excited, Red Raider fans, I'm sure they just needed someone else to go to the dinner next to the two "real" finalists.  And I don't know how much the "fan" vote counts, but McCoy finished with 67% of that.  Guess the fans are taking into account all the "lack of talent" that UT throws onto the field.  Harrell and Bradford split the rest of the votes.

But how can that be.  Surely to be included in the Heisman, as the best player in the country, you should be considered one of the TOP 3 at YOUR OWN POSITION.  Except for the rare case that you play another position, but I don't see Tebow out making killer kick returns or drilling anybody as a linebacker.  He does run the ball some, but he's still a QB, and in his system, one of the roles of the position of QB is to run the ball some.  So how do you get considered the greatest player, but not one of the greatest players at the position in which you play on the field?

It kind of reminds of all the questions people have about letting a team play for the National Championship even if they don't win their own conference.  How can a team be considered the Nation's best team if they technically aren't their conference's best team?

The Davey O'Brien award gets voted by a bunch of media elite and former O'Brien winners, just like the Heisman (and I assume the fan vote is very small, if even used at all, I don't know).  So I don't understand the discrepancy.  You would think that since the Heisman finalists all happened to be QB's, that it would just translate over to the QB award, right?  Plus, Tebow won the award last year, so that should only help him, right?

Or maybe, somehow, people actually voted for one of the best at his position, since this isn't quite the popularity contest as the Heisman.  Maybe somebody actually looked at the stats and how much he has done for his own team (record setting wins) including putting together an outrageously impossibe drive in 68 seconds and outshining the current frontrunner in the most memorable game of the year.

I'll let the media pick their darling, but we all know who is the best QB in the country.  And he wears a sparkly black helmet on the plains of West Texas.