{"id":700,"date":"2013-01-05T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/05\/what-happened-to-heisman-hex"},"modified":"2013-01-05T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T14:06:00","slug":"what-happened-to-heisman-hex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Heisman Hex?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/college-football\/news\/20130105\/cotton-texas-am-johnny-manziel-dominates-oklahoma\/?xid=cnnbin#\" href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/college-football\/news\/20130105\/cotton-texas-am-johnny-manziel-dominates-oklahoma\/?xid=cnnbin#\">http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/college-football\/news\/20130105\/cotton-texas-am-johnny-manziel-dominates-oklahoma\/?xid=cnnbin#<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought Heisman Trophy winners were supposed to be jinxed, spooked, cursed \u2026 whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t see any of that as Texas A&amp;M dismantled Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl. Has Johnny Manziel \u2013 aka Johnny Football \u2013 broken the spell?<\/p>\n<p>My friend Roy made some reference to the \u201cHeisman jinx\u201d the other morning after Oregon clobbered Kansas State, which had its own Heisman Trophy finalist in senior quarterbackCollin Klein. The Ducks bottled up Klein and the Wildcats nicely en route to their 35-17 blowout in the Fiesta Bowl. I wasn\u2019t lamenting any such jinx at the time, you know?<\/p>\n<p>Now comes Johnny Football. For the record, he ran for 229 yards, passed for 287 more yards. Let\u2019s see, that\u2019s 516 yards in total offense \u2013 from one guy alone!<\/p>\n<p>The rule of thumb here is that Heisman winners go into a serious swoon after they accept the trophy, although there are exceptions. Cam Newton at Auburn won the Heisman and then led the Tigers to the national championship over the <em>(gulp!)<\/em> Ducks in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Football, though, is a seriously special athlete. Something tells me he\u2019s got another Heisman Trophy \u2013 maybe more \u2013 in his future.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/college-football\/news\/20130105\/cotton-texas-am-johnny-manziel-dominates-oklahoma\/?xid=cnnbin# I thought Heisman Trophy winners were supposed to be jinxed, spooked, cursed \u2026 whatever. Didn\u2019t see any of that as Texas A&amp;M dismantled Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl. Has Johnny Manziel \u2013 aka Johnny Football \u2013 broken the spell? My friend Roy made some reference to the \u201cHeisman jinx\u201d the other morning after Oregon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=700\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What happened to Heisman Hex?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}