Stiff Arm makes Sports Illustrated - and more...

From Stewart Mandel at Sports Illustrated:

The biggest cause for intrigue on Saturday night at the Nokia Theater in Times Square will be whether the Cleveland native achieves the most lopsided victory in the award's 72-year history.

As of Thursday, the Web site StiffArmTrophy.com, which has projected the H------ voting totals with incredible accuracy the past four years, had solicited ballots from 111 actual voters. All but five gave their first-place vote to Smith. If that trend were to hold up over 892 ballots (the amount received last year), he would finish with 95.5 percent of the first-place votes, shattering Reggie Bush's record of 84.9 percent last year.

But here's the most amazing part: Smith could actually come within striking distance of O.J. Simpson's 1968 records for first-place votes (855) and margin between first and second (1,750 points) despite the fact there were nearly 300 more registered voters then (1,200) than there are now (924).

And over at the Orlando Sentinel:

Kari Chisholm runs the Web site stiffarmtrophy.com, and he's now in his fifth year of projecting Heisman votes. He correctly predicted the 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 victors -- projecting the past three winners' vote totals within several percentage points.

This year, he expects Smith to win in a landslide. As of Thursday night, Chisholm had compiled 110 voters' picks, and Smith had received 106 first-place votes, compared to three for McFadden and one for Quinn.

Quinn insisted he doesn't know who will win the Heisman. "I don't know," Quinn said. "That's not for me to decide or to choose."

Stay tuned for the next projection. We're closing in on the end, folks.

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