Missouri is the #1 team in the country.
Look, here at No Owens, there have been a number of fairly extreme concepts. This was never one of them. How's Mack Brown feeling about passing on Chase Daniel right about now?
Chase Daniel. Funny how this works.
Think about the most important losses this year and which teams lost the games. Kansas, Oregon, Oklahoma, West Virginia. Ohio State and LSU are not relevant because the voters are going to take care of them because of their school's legacies.
Kansas lost in a game where we all saw that they had no experience. We saw they had the fight and the capabilities to beat Missouri but they really dug themselves too big of a hole. So remove Kansas from that list and you have three teams that should be ranked #1 right now. What do they all have in common?
What happens to teams when they lose their starting quarterback? We all know that the quarterback is the focal point of the team, but teams need to be prepared. Tennessee would not have beaten Florida State for the 1998 National Title had FSU had their starting quarterback. I make this allegation all of the time and it's funny how no one seems to argue, but what does this have anything to do with this year?
West Virginia has one loss to the once #2 South Florida Bulls. A game that West Virginia was in and should have won. The kicker? Jarrett Brown, the backup quarterback finished the game for the Mountaineers after Heisman hopefuly Pat White left with an injury. I believe, had White not gotten injured, Vest Virginia would undefeated and the #1 team in the land.
Dennis Dixon went down and Oregon became hopeless. I mean, who isn't other than Washington State with a Leaf under center. Sam Bradford went down with a concussion? You get the point.
West Virginia, luckily, only suffered one loss. The other two, unfortunately, have had their title hopes shot thanks to losing their quarterbacks. I mean, I have never been a Mizzou fan before, or ever had a reason to root for a Mizzou team that didn't have Kareem Rush, but you do realize that these teams getting their quarterbacks knocked out for a game's finale will be what gives Ohio State a shot at the title?
The quarterback is the single most important position in sports. If you think otherwise, then you are an idiot. Look what an injury to one person can do to an entire team. An entire team can lose focus with the loss of one player. That kid from West Virginia is going to be a strong college player, but he couldn't recover from the lack of experience and the emotional loss that the Moutaineers took when their leader went down. Sam Bradford is a freshman and Dixon was the week two Heisman favorite of No Owens. With a loss of a player, these team's seasons have changed dramatically.
Only Ohio State gets excited when players get injured.
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Daniel went 40-49 passing against the nations #2 defense. So yeah, I' gonna have to say that Chase is a lock for the Davey O'Brien Award.
I watched the USF and West Virginia game. I disagree with you that had not White gotten injured WVU would have won the game. Did you notice that when White went out, West Virginia was scoreless? Brown managed to get 13 points for WVU. And, I'm still watching my video to find the "hit" which took White out of the game.
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