Not a huge college football fan, but I was up and thought I'd watch the end of the game (last 6 minutes or so). Man, that was entertaining. I can't believe the poise under pressure these 18-21 year olds have. Amazing. Vince Young is incredible.

That was the football equivalent of boxing's "Holyfield-Bowe" fight (the first one). Just when it appears one team had control the other team threw a devestating blow.

Amazing game. Glad I stayed up to watch it.

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3 nights in a row of great football games AMAZING. now i need to get some sleep.

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Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

Surely you couldn't be referring to the Orange Bowl game. Both teams were so pathetic, I was hoping they would both lose.

Terrific game tonight. I haven't been that worked up about a football game in a long time.

At last, we agree on something :)

Awesome game

I agree: Ohio State-Notre Dame was good, Rose Bowl was terrific, Penn State - FSU was awful, although fun to watch the kicker suffer under pressure.

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Probably one of the best BCS games I've ever seen.

What a great season of bowl games. Many were close...back and forth...come from behind victories and losses. WVU was killing Georgia and ended up winning but GA gave it a good run in the second half.

Man...I hate to have to watch the NFL playoffs after this...

I thought it was supposed to be "The Reggie Bush Show." Turned out to be "The Vince Young Show." Can they have a do-over on the Heisman?

A good bowl season for my schools. Wisconsin (undergraduate) dominates a higher ranked foe for a convincing win and finishes ranked 15th overall. Texas (graduate school) wins a national championship!

I don't think I have ever seen a player like Vince Young before. Even the USC linemen were unable to tackle the guy without help. When in the pocket, he would barely react if only one defender was coming at him.

Obviously a quarterback can't run like that in the pros since the linebackers there would clobber him, but Young doesn't seem to give anything up to anyone in the passing department either.

Am I missing something, or is he the next number one pick?

I don't think I have ever seen a player like Vince Young before. Even the USC linemen were unable to tackle the guy without help. When in the pocket, he would barely react if only one defender was coming at him.

Charlie Ward, although Ward was a better passer than Young. Hell, Andrew Ware (Heisman, Houston) was unbelievable (in college). And wel, Tommy Frazier (Nebraska) might have bee the most impressive college running QB I've ever seen.

Obviously a quarterback can't run like that in the pros since the linebackers there would clobber him, but Young doesn't seem to give anything up to anyone in the passing department either.

As I said inanother thread, randall Cunningham did. 1990 942rush yards, 3700 pass yads (w/ 30TD). (Compare to Vick's 902rush and 2300pass in 2004)

People keep looking for the "great running QB" that will change the game, and that QB has already came and went. Vick, McNabb, Young, etc are not trying to reovlutionize the game .. IMO, they're trying to accomplish what Cunningham did 15 years ago. Why does the media forget about Cunnungham so quickly?

Hype. Hype. Hype. NFL is very different than NCAA. will anyone on USC's defense be in the NFL? Let alone starting in the NFL?

Am I missing something, or is he the next number one pick?

There will certainly be pressure on the Houston Texans to take him.

I'm so bored (test day), I'm having the same conversation in multiple threads. Ugh.

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OK, you know more about college ball than I. Of course, that is not saying much.

If the worst thing you can say about the guy, is that Randall Cunningham was better, I guess he must be pretty good.

Vince Young is a stud. Flat-out. I am not saying anything bad about the guy. MOF, I wish the *experts* would shut up about his throwing motion and realize that it's not all about how you look, how your uniform fits, but simply whether you can play thegame or not.

He played, perhaps, the single greatest game a college QB has ever played (especially in a National Championship).

I was merely commenting on how every time an athletic scrambling QB goes into the draft (especially an athletic black QB), they are tabbed as "the one that will change the way the game is played" (Ware, McNabb, Culpepper, Vick, etc), and everyone (i.e., media) gets carried away with how great they're going to be in the NFL.

I haven't been this interested in how a college player is going to do in the NFL since Bo jackson started the Auburn running back tradition.

That reminds me of a trivia question a friend asked me the other day. Who was the last athlete to be both an NFL Pro-Bowler and a baseball All-Star?

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I would think that would be Bo-Jackson, since Dione never was that good, but maybe Jackson wasn't that good in baseball either.

If not him, you probably have to go way back before my time.

Deion was never an All-Star.

Answer is Brian Jordan. All-Pro Safety in the same backfield as Deion (Falcons), and an all-Star outfielder (Cardinals, Braves, Dodgers).

FWIW, I didn't get it right either ... and I'm a Cradinal fan.

Bo Jackson was an ll-Star outfielder for the KC Royals and hit one of te most dramatic all-star homers ever ... something like 464 feet.

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It was awesome. One of the best bowl games I have ever seen. I truly didn't care which team won which made it better for me. Reminded me of the Boston/Miami (Flutie/Testeverdi) game, which is still my all time favorite game.

Ah, a good one! But my all time fav is still the '02 Fiesta Bowl: Ohio State vs. the U (Miami). For the national title and triple overtime with even more drama than last nights Rose Bowl.

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