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College Football Fans Select Notre Dame Quarterback Brady Quinn as ...
PR Newswire (press release), NY - 7 hours ago
ATLANTA, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- A record setting number of college football fans have cast their ballots, and for the third straight year their voice differs from the media experts.

Notre Dame quarterback Bray Quinn was selected as the Cingular All-America Player of the Year, the only major college football award determined exclusively by the fans, after leading the Fighting Irish to 10 wins and a Bowl Championship Series berth in the Sugar Bowl.

Quinn received 43% of the votes to win over Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith (27%), the Heisman Trophy winner, Rutgers running back Ray Rice (18%) and Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan (12%). Voting for the Cingular All- America Player of the Year was the highest total in the three year history of the award.

For the third consecutive season, college football fans disagreed with the media that vote for the Heisman Trophy. Last year, Texas quarterback Vince Young was voted the Cingular All-America Player of the Year over Heisman Trophy winning running back Reggie Bush of Southern California, and in 2004 Texas running back Cedric Benson won over USC quarterback Matt Leinart.

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:34:00 GMT

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[Gotham Dark Knight]

Either there were a lot of Irish fan voting or the beating Ohio State took in the BCS really took its toll...Quinn, whom I like, was not all that great in his Bowl game either...

[azrael492]

I would like to know how he won this too.

[Lefty Noob]

Yeah, I bet the Irish fans were voting early and often for this one...