He also comes from a Mormon family and went to Notre Dame.

It's either he's gay or he made up a fake girlfriend whom he planned to have tragically "die" to enhance his chances at winning the Heisman Trophy by adding a tragic story to an already impressive athlete.

If I recall, his "girlfriend" died the same day as his grandma and the "funeral" was on the day of a big game. So much tragedy for him to overcome, it'd be hard not to vote for him.

Either way, he was in on it. When your long-distance girlfriend gets leukemia, you get on a plane. Or when she gets a bone-marrow transplant. Or when she gets in a car accident that leaves her "on the brink of death". Or when she only ever sends you, like, four pictures over the course of three years. Or when she's dying in a hospital.

I mean come on. Not even a skype session? There's just no way he was not fully aware of what was going on. Can you imagine having a relationship in 2009-2012 with zero face-to-face interaction of any kind? There's just no way.