I haven't watched Oregon much this year until tonight. He has only completed about half his passes and has negative rushing yards. Isn't he the Heisman front runner? Have they just not played anyone good before Stanford?
Well I guess he just threw for a touchdown but he seemed to be trying really hard to fumble the ball on the drive before he got it done. Ball security not a strong point.
How did Stanford lose to Utah?
Any team that wastes a first round pick on Mariota after tonight is going to get what they deserve. He's a system QB, only slightly better than Dennis Dixon.
Utah really isn't bad, and they are big and physical. They've beat pretty solid BYU and Utah St teams and took Oregon St on the road and UCLA at home right down to the wire. They match up better with Stanford than Oregon does.
Mariota is a sophomore. He's also better. If you judged each QB by their worst game each year, no one would ever take one in the first round.
Thanks. That makes sense. I guess it just annoys me because Baylor is rated below them and probably will be below Oregon too even though both the PAC-12 teams have a loss.
I'd rather judge him on how he performs against quality defenses than how he looks against over matched defenses that allow him to throw unpressured all day. I've watched a banged up Johnny Manziel get heavily pressured in almost every SEC game and perform much better than Mariota.
If computers were allowed to consider margin of victory Baylor would be looking very good right now with KSU being their only non blowout win all year. Even without this win will bump them up a spot or two in computer average. Baylor's SOS will be going up every weak and FSU's will be going down every weak from here on.
FSU has a game with IDAHO left, they're probably ranked below half of FCS teams by computers.
The ignoring of Baylor is awful. That said, FSU, IMO, has the best win of any team. That destruction of Clemson was it. I don't think Baylor can top that. I have high hopes for an Oregon/Baylor bowl game.
You are a ******* moran, you know that right?
Marcus Mariota - Yahoo! Sports.
Just thought I'd share this for all those people out there that think stars really matter. Likely number 1 pick in the draft this year, was a 3 star with 2 offers. Just goes to show you never know how certain players will develop.
No one ever said there weren't hidden gems. Even those who argue that stars mean everything in the world will admit that there are players that fall through cracks and never get evaluated.