Sorry, Andre Woodson. Enjoy the NFL next year, Darren McFadden. There’s always next time, Tim Tebow. This year’s Heisman is going to Boston College’s Matt Ryan.

Simply put, Ryan is filthy, clutch and money. If you caught any of that drizzly, ugly BC/Virginia Tech game last night, you probably didn’t miss much. But if the bit you caught was the final 2:11 minutes of the game, you know the part where Ryan led his offense, an offense with a line that couldn’t protect him all night and receivers that allowed themselves to be swallowed up by VT’s defensive backs (and occasionally linebackers), down the field twice on scoring drives, then you saw Ryan win the Heisman. Going on the road to hostile environments and winning big games is what great players do and while those of us who knew Matt Ryan was great weren’t surprised by what we saw last night, many of us didn’t know whether or not he had “it.” Well, as last night’s game indicates, the Boston College senior has “it” in bunches.

How else do you explain going 9-for-15 with two touchdowns on in the final two minutes and change of the game, including throwing the game winning touchdown with 11 seconds left? I’m not convinced that BC won’t lose a game this season but the win Thursday night is validation that the road to the ACC Championship certainly runs through Chestnut Hill.

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