Weird games, weird rankings and weird haircuts (I’m looking at you Honey Badger).

One thing is always certain no matter what happened through this strange season, though. The debate over the Heisman Trophy has once again come down to the usual suspects.

The Heisman is supposed to go to the most “O0utstanding” player in college football every year, but the meaning of outstanding has been argued for many years.

Does it mean the most exciting player? The player with the best stats? The best player on the best team? The player who is going to do the best in the pros? Or does it just simply mean the player with just the best overall season?

Every year the candidates for the Heisman all seem to be the answer for one of those questions. This year is no different.

Most Exciting Player

No doubt it is RG3. Robert Griffin III is the most exciting player in college football.

With the flick of his wrist he can rifle a pass to his receivers and in the wink of an eye he is gone downfield making defensive backs look silly all the way to the endzone. RG3 is a man and a persona, with his easy to say nickname and the ability to say amazing things when a microphone is put in front of his mouth he has got to be the favorite.

Problem is he plays for Baylor – not one of your football rich programs. He will get overlooked because of the three losses.

Best Stats

Case Keenum. The dude is ridiculous, passing four 45 touchdowns with only five interceptions. He had the advantage of having the underground Heisman talk going for a while (ala Kellen Moore in 2010), but the problem is he plays in Conference USA and is basically like the kid who got held back a year and is bigger than everyone else so he picks on them at recess.

Also, losing big to Southern Miss late in the season doesn’t look good.

Best Player on Best Team

This one is tied between Trent Richardson and Tyrann Mathieu.

Richardson has a good shot because he was the guy who everyone said was actually better that Heisman winner Mark Ingram. That’s good buzz, but when you have zero touchdowns against LSU, Arkansas and Auburn (the best teams you played), that is not encouraging.

On to the Honey Badger, he looks promising. He has built a nice buzz from being the defensive guy with the awesome nickname and he is undoubtedly the best player on LSU.

The only problem is nobody wants to give it to the guy who has a weird haircut and got suspended for drugs. That doesn’t really seem Heisman quality.

Best Next-Level Guy

Obviously this is last year’s runner up Andrew Luck.

People are so high on Luck that it is already a foregone conclusion that he is the going to be the first pick of the draft. The Colts have already asked for Peyton Manning’s permission to draft him and put a hefty insurance policy on his right arm.

The problem is that people are tired of Andrew Luck because he is your typical white technical quarterback who isn’t exciting to watch. A terrible game against Oregon on national television and a sloppy game when the Cardinal barely escaped USC don’t help his case with voters.

Best Season

This guy is a running back with more than 1,800 total yards and 34 total touchdowns.  Very impressive, I know.

He is top three nationally in rushing yards and leads the nation in rushing touchdowns.

It’s Wisconsin’s Montee Ball. This guy is an absolute monster with 29 rushing touchdowns.

The problem is that nobody really knows about him, because he plays in a very boring conference with a bunch of day games. Not good press for Montee Ball.

As always the Heisman Race comes down to the same archetypes, all with an equal shot at the trophy. All I can say is if I had a vote my ballot would simply read RG3.

Harrison Stanfill is a guest columnist for The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Monday.