Three days since the Heisman Trophy final balloting was revealed, and there's still no confirmation as to who gave USC receiver Dwayne Jarrett his lone first-place vote.
That's kinda fishy.
There are 923 official voters. Of them, 870 are from the media.
Of the 880 first-place votes cast in the 2006 campaign that were revealed by the Associated Press in their final Top 10 voting, Ohio State's Troy Smith took 801 of them.
Arkansas' Darren McFadden had 45, the second highest.
Notre Dame's Brady Quinn had 13. West Virginia's Steve Slaton and Hawaii's Colt Brennan had six each. Five went to Michigan's Mike Hart.
And then there was, for no other reason than to make some sort of lame statement, one first-place vote was given to Rutgers' Ray Rice, Boise State's Ian Johnson, Georgia Tech's Calvin Johnson.
And Jarrett.
Who may have only been the second-best receiver on his team.
But that's beside the point.
Why any concern over who thought it would be cute/cool/honorable to give Jarrett his lone vote of confidence when there was absolutely no way he was going to, or deserved to, win? Because anyone who did give that vote to Jarrett, who ended up finishing ninth overall with 47 total points -- or about 2,500 behind the winner Smith -- should have to admit to it.
Unfortunately, Heisman voters -- at least those who haven't won a Heisman and get an automatic vote -- can live in some anominity. None of them ever has to let the general public know how they selected, as we brought up recently in a blog posting about who really gets a Heisman vote versus who really deserves to have one.

For argument's sake, let's look at the potential list of suspects:

1) The former USC Heisman winners.
There are seven of them. Any one of them could have decided to "stay in the Trojan family" and voted for one of their own. Initial speculation on WeAreSC.com is that Charles White may have been the one to do it. Kari Chisholm, who runs the website StiffArmTrophy.com that predicts each year who'll win the Heisman based on asking current voters, said in an email that he did not know who voted Jarrett first, "but I wouldn't be surprised if it was Matt Leinart, White or Mike Garrett."
We would be.

2) What about others with some sort of ties to USC.
Chisholm has a list of who she has been able to confirm as current Heisman voters. From her list, we'll extract these USC-ties names:
Artie Gigantino, Fox Sports Net, former USC assistant coach; Lynn Swann, formerly of ABC Sports, former USC receiver; Pat Haden, NBC Sports, former USC quarterback;.
Doubt it, doubt it and doubt it.

3) Can we cast a cloud over the sports writers or broadcasters from L.A. who cover, or have covered, USC?
Daily News staff writer Scott Wolf and columnist Steve Dilbeck; retired Orange County Register columnist Steve Bisheff, the Long Beach Press Telegram's Bob Keisser and Doug Kirkorian, former ABC broadcaster Keith Jackson, sports-talk show host at 570-AM Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton, a former USC play-by-play man; and Daily Breeze columnist Mike Waldner.
They all have too much integrity to pull a stunt like that.
Wolf's ballot, by the way, was Brennan, Smith and McFadden.

4) Anyone else we forgot? Let's look at that list on StiffArmTrophy again ...
Oh, right.
Pete Arbogast, current (for the time being) USC play-by-play football broadcaster, and recent winner of the "Homer Call of the Week" on the Dan Patrick ESPN Radio show.
The same Arbogast who, in 2002, admitted that he cast his second-place vote for Arizona State defensive end Lee Suggs because he knew that would help USC quarterback Carson Palmer, the eventual winner.
Can't deny, there's heavy speculation that the lone Jarrett vote came from here. We can't verify, so we don't want to implicate him. So far, he hasn't admitted it to anyone. At least none that have passed it on.

Until then, we'lll patiently sit back and wait to see who finally comes clean.