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Reading like the whose who of Heisman Trophy candidates, the Associated Press All America football team released today is dominated by the newest Southeastern Conference candidate for the unofficial college football championship title, the Alabama Crimson Tide. Alabama has five players on the team and four of the five Heisman Trophy finalists, including winner Mark Ingram of Alabama, made the team with three of them in the backfield — Ingram, Colt McCoy of Texas and Toby Gerhart of Stanford. Texas, which faces Alabama in the national title game in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 7, placed three players on the team and the 2008 champion Florid Gators placed two members on the team. Here are the offensive and defensive players on the first team, as announced by the AP today:
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