College football bowl thread: Pop-Tarts Muzik

I'm a bit surprised, but I guess the kid's stock has risen.

 

It's not a great crop of QBs this year anyway -- but he has the measurables and that's a start. I question that a guy who couldn't crack 200 yards in a third of his games and went over 250 once is the cream of any crop, even this one.

It's also just one man's opinion -- there's a mock that has him as a third-rounder and going behind Ewers

 

He is very mature, and he can make all the throws. But I've certainly never seen him as possible first QB picked. It's probably not fair, but seeing that he doesn't get all the crunch-time snaps colors my view a bit.

 

Who among us wouldn’t try avoid a trip to Shreveport?

 

Soooo ... Travis Hunter, eh?

I certainly give two-way play a lot of gravitas, but I have to say I'm surprised Jeanty didn't get it with those numbers. No discernible regional bias, either; Hunter wins every region.

 

Showed up there for a bowl once and asked my co-worker about the setup.

"No one is manning the media room, the beer cooler was empty within hours and you're pretty much on your own until gameday."

That was many moons ago, though. Perhaps they have two coolers now.

 

I thought Beck was injured and would not compete in the playoffs?

 

Jeanty made it closer than I thought and deservedly so, but let's be real. Travis Hunter was a lock since early October.

 

I saw Hunter play in person this year. It was one of the few times I have left a game and thought, damn, that dude was just beyond amazing. That was before he was a true Heisman candidate, but it didn't take long after that.

I don't know how his talents will translate in the NFL, but I'm glad I got to seem him do it that one time. There is just no way you can deny what he did this year.

And Jeanty absolutely deserved the consideration too and maybe even deserved to win and would have most years.

 

Wes Durham on play by play is one of life’s underrated pleasures.

 

RBs are woefully overused and underpaid in today's NFL. Unless he drops to Jerry, in which he'll get paid handsomely.

 

So we can no longer call it the Camellia Bowl, because it is now the Salute to Veterans Bowl. Make sure not to confuse it with the Armed Forces Bowl, the Military Bowl, the First Responders Bowl or the Liberty, Independence or Alamo for that matter if you want to stretch the premise.

I suppose on some level it is appropriate. We used to name bowls after agricultural products, but now our biggest cash crops are guys with guns and shallow, performative patriotism.