Heisman Projection: Final, 231 ballots
Overnight, we added a bunch of ballots - and we're now up to 231 ballots (with 641 votes), though nothing's really changed since we made our official projection yesterday. Robert Griffin III is going to win the Heisman Trophy.
This is our final hard-numbers projection - our attempt to not only pick the winner, but also the order of finish and total vote. After applying a slight adjustment to the projection chart below (to account for bias introduced by a large number of 1st-place only declarations for RG3), here's how we think it's going to shake out:
Griffin wins with 2148 points, or 77% of a perfect unanimous #1 selection. Luck gets 2nd with 1388 points, or 50%. Richardson is 3rd with 799 points, or 29%. Ball is 4th, with 475 points, or 17%. And Mathieu is 5th, with 430 points, or 15%.
Griffin will win all six regions, while Luck will place 2nd in every region but the South (where Richardson will be 2nd.) Ball will be 3rd in the Southwest and Midwest, while Matt Barkley will be 3rd in the West.
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For the tenth year in a row, we're going to attempt to project the outcome of the greatest individual award in sports, the Heisman Trophy. We've been right nine out of nine years.
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Our latest projection
Last updated: 12/10/2011, 7:00 a.m. Pacific. 231 ballots, 641 votes.
| name | first | second | third | ballots | points | Projected | Proj% |
| R Griffin | 144 | 38 | 18 | 200 | 526 | 2166 | 77.9% |
| A Luck | 46 | 66 | 37 | 149 | 307 | 1336 | 48.0% |
| T Richardson | 23 | 35 | 40 | 98 | 179 | 730 | 26.2% |
| M Ball | 6 | 26 | 44 | 76 | 114 | 425 | 15.3% |
| T Mathieu | 4 | 26 | 35 | 65 | 99 | 377 | 13.6% |
| M Barkley | 1 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 32 | 137 | 4.9% |
| R Wilson | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 44 | 1.6% |
| B Weeden | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 32 | 1.2% |
| L James | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 1.0% |
| K Moore | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 25 | 0.9% |
| C Keenum | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 0.4% |
| L Kuechly | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 0.4% |
| D Robinson | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0.3% |
| C Klein | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0.2% |
| J Blackmon | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0.1% |
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