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The Heisman Curse is a term coined to reference a two-part assertion of a negative future for the winning player. The "curse" supposes that any college football player who wins the Heisman Trophy will likely lose his subsequent bowl game. The trend of post-award failure has garnered the attention of the mainstream media.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TideSports.com - Heisman curse? Hardly )〕 Talk of a curse in relation to Bowl results was particularly prevalent during the period 2003 – 2008 when six Heisman trophy winners compiled a 1-5 Bowl record, and five of those six led #1 ranked teams into the BCS National Championship Game as favorites (Heisman Trophy winners, including the disclaimed Reggie Bush, are 4-8 overall in the BCS National Championship Game and College Football Playoff National Championship, although prior to 2009 they were 1-6). Additionally, the Heisman Curse asserts that in most cases a Heisman winner will have either a poor career in the NFL, or in fact not even see such a football career at all. Although many Heisman winners have not enjoyed success at the professional level, including players like Matt Leinart, Andre Ware, Jason White, Rashaan Salaam, Eric Crouch, Ty Detmer, Troy Smith and Gino Torretta, proponents of the "curse" rarely cite highly-successful players such as Barry Sanders, Charles Woodson, Eddie George, Tim Brown, Bo Jackson, Marcus Allen, Earl Campbell, and Tony Dorsett among the notables. Insofar as there is a "curse" of under performing Heisman winners, it seems to affect quarterbacks disproportionately. Although certain Heisman winners have gone on to win Super Bowls (Roger Staubach and Jim Plunkett), comparatively few have had successful NFL careers. Conversely, running backs seem generally to have fared better in the professional ranks, and wide receivers have had mixed results. The only primarily defensive Heisman winner, Charles Woodson, had a successful NFL career and final collegiate Bowl game appearance. The "curse" does not imply that only Heisman winners have failed careers, only the irony behind college football's best underperforming after the award is given.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ESPN.com - Page2 - The List: Biggest Heisman flops )〕 However, while there are numerous counts of players who underperformed after winning the award, an equal number of players have gone on to see great success,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Heisman Trophy Studs & Duds, best Heisman winners, Heisman flops )〕 evidence that the "curse" is more of an amusement than a reality. While there is no statistical or empirical evidence that suggests Heisman winners under perform compared to other high profile collegiate players, some people try to explain the perception of the curse by reference to trends regarding voter selections. Some see the trend going back decades to other players, but it has most famously been observed since the 1990s. The accepted logical explanation for the discrepancy between success and failure of Heisman winners is that the people who pick the Heisman are sportswriters and former Heisman winners. This might mean that they vote for a winner based on reputation, without seeing him or really studying him, basically a qualitative approach. On the other hand, the people who pick players for the NFL are talent evaluators. They study tape, they interview players and they put them through workouts where their strengths and weaknesses can be quantified. ==Heisman Trophy winner's bowl game results== Rankings are from the AP Poll upon entering bowl games ‡—USC's 2005 Orange Bowl win was later vacated.〔http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/ncf/columns/story?id=6632819〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heisman curse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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