College Football Week 11: Indiana is playing for a Big Ten title. In football.

Unlike the stiff they kept rolling out at quarterback last year.

 

Please. Nothing against Ryan Tannehill, but Manziel's a once-in-a-generation player. He's their Tim Tebow or Cam Newton.

 

Yep. Good thing Bama didn't have to face a fast, dynamic spread attack like Oklahoma State's in January. Instead, they beat down an offense with no quarterback that was no threat to score points to win a national championship.

 

And yet A&M lost to Florida and LSU -- or, as we in Other America, a team that struggled mightily (/crossthread) against Missouri and Louisiana-Lafayette and another one that struggled mightily (/crossthread) against Auburn and Towson.

But no matter. The once-in-a-generation team could only be beaten by the team with the once-in-a-generation quarterback.

SEC Vortex Of Domination. Every time they play, both teams win!

 

He's good. Just not sure he's better than Collin Klein this season, and I'm not ready to call Klein a once-in-a-generation player like Tebow or Newton (two in that generation, apparently).

 

I guess we know why Nick started working the refs a month ago about the no-huddle not letting him substitute on D.

 

I had forgotten about that. Good point. Give Saban credit: He knows his team's strengths and weaknesses.

 

Umm, are you forgetting that their QB last year, Ryan Tannehill, was the 8th pick of the first round in the NFL draft and an immediate starter doing quite well as a rookie for the Dolphins? The Aggies weren't exactly bereft at the QB position last year.

Yet, with a 5th year senior Tannehill as their QB last year, they merely went 4-5 against Big 12 competition. They are now doing far better against SEC competition with a freshman starter (albeit a stupendously awesome one).

 

The difference being that Klein is a senior and Manziel is a freshman. And I meant once-in-a-generation at that school.

 

They also lost to the third-best team in the SEC West (Arkansas). And had Mike Sherman as their coach. That alone was good for two losses.

 

What the rest of the country didn't realize: Alabama's loss to Texas A&M was, for all intents and purposes, actually an Alabama victory.

 

Yep -- HUGE strength-of-schedule boost!