I think Suh should have won, but I never really expected that to happen. Frankly, I viewed the race between Gerhart and Ingram to be a toss-up. While I would have loved to have seen Suh win it, I can't really say that Ingram or Gerhart are bad choices for the voters. I'm not sure you can automatically assume that Gerhart is better than Ingram based solely on the numbers. Ingram faced better competition, and he got less carries (60 fewer, I believe) because he was complimented by other talented members of the UA offense, while Gerhart got a lot of carries against softer defenses because he was one of Stanford's only real weapons. Also, you can't forget that Ingram had 322 yards receiving in addition to his 1542 rushing, mostly coming in the form of YAC on short passes. Gerhart had 149 receiving and 1736 rushing. The gap between the two's combined yardages is only 60 yards in Gerhart's favor. Again, though, this was against much weaker competition. Living in Birmingham and having watched every Alabama game this season, plus being married to a die-hard Alabama fan, although I'm not a Bama fan myself, may be influencing my view of Ingram a bit, but I think I'm being reasonably objective here. I saw Gerhart play 3 times this year, and I think he's really good. I don't think he'd have been a bad choice. I just don't think he was clearly better than Ingram.
The fact that McCoy did as well as he did is really surprising and disappointing to me because he was simply unimpressive when he faced good defenses this year. Tebow got votes only because he's a media whore, his numbers didn't merit any serious consideration, imo.
surely you're confused and just saying this because traditionally the SEC has better defenses, but alabama only faced one top 40 defense and stanford played what, 5? 6? gotta rethink your argument there buddy