Daily Bullets (Nov. 17): Chuba’s Heisman Campaign Heats Up

Happy birthday to Sister Pistols, (by far) the best athlete in the fam.

Bullets Rundown

• NYC Talk for Chuba
• Stoner Replaces Tylan

Scores

• Wrestling: Lehigh 21 | OSU 20
• FB: OSU 31 | Kansas 13

OSU Bullets

• Chuba2NYC, let’s go.

For starters, one of the frontrunners is likely out of the race. Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered a serious season-ending injury. Reports out of Tuscaloosa say he dislocated his hip with a posterior wall fracture.

One of the other frontrunners also sat out another game. Ohio State defensive end Chase Young is serving a suspension, and while he is arguably college football’s most dynamic player, missing two games will undoubtedly hurt his Heisman stock.

Meanwhile, Hubbard keeps ChuChuing along, and Gundy was happy to toot his horn for his tailback. Even though the Cowboy coach has spoken on several occasions in recent weeks about Hubbard and the Heisman, Gundy was his most strident Saturday. [NewsOK]

I love that Gundy has started campaigning for it. He should be. Chuba is having an all-time season, and NYC is now within striking distance.

• Guerin Emig says it’s going to take a massive one-two close for Chuba to get the invite.

Gundy was judicious pulling Hubbard when he did, but I worry that it will have a punitive effect on his Heisman candidacy. Now Hubbard needs something straight from Barry Sanders’ trophy season of 1988 against both West Virginia and Oklahoma.

Only then can he get his trip, and his teammates can get what they want.

“In my opinion he’s the best player in the country, and I thought that’s what the award went to,” Harvell-Peel said. “Chuba for Heisman. Start a hashtag. Do something. I’m behind it. That’s my dog.” [Tulsa World]

Start the hashtag. Heisman campaigning in 2019.

• Kyle Cox did the Dillon Stoner thing, and it was great.

When OSU lost the Big 12’s leading receiver and a former Biletnikoff finalist in Tylan Wallace, it left a gaping hole in the Cowboys’ offense and looming questions as to how that hole could be filled. The answer, it seems, should have been more obvious. [PFB]

I was not a believer? I wasn’t not a believer. I just wasn’t a dyed-in-the-wool convert. He’s been terrific though. Respect.

• Haha, Berry Tramel on Rudolph-Garrett feat. Baker is hilarious and great.

Here’s how crazy was the scene. It was left to Baker Mayfield, the Browns’ quarterback and normally no bastion of statesmanship, to bring sanity to the field. [NewsOK]

• Here are my 10 thoughts | and my notebook.

• These Les stories are spectacular.

• This from RA on Dru Brown is excellent.

• The backdoor to the Big 12 title is just about closed. OU can slam it shut against TCU this weekend in Norman following that all-time comeback last night after they trailed 28-3.

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— Atlanta Falcons (@AtlantaFalcons) November 17, 2019

• Wild story here out of Lehigh. Seth Duckworth covered it well as OSU lost its first dual in two seasons on a, uh, questionable medical decision.

• The top whatever is great and a must-read on Sundays. On the Baylor-OU bonanza, Tua and Scott Frost “failing into a pile of money.”

• OSU-Yale today, and Lindy Waters is giving gifts away.

• This Monmouth-KU ending was amazing.

Non-Sports Bullets

• Always read Bryan Curtis.

• This on managing your household well was so convicting.