re: For the previous decade, what year would you say the SEC peaked the highest?

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FAIL 1: A&M played Rice in 2013. Manziel was suspended the entire first half due to the autograph incident and didn't take his first snap until the 3rd quarter.

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My bad, it was 2 FCS teams, SMU and LA Tech.

vs SMU Manziel was allowed to say in long enough to score 6 total TDs and over 400 yards of total offense.

vs LA Tech Manziel was allowed to stay in for another 6 TDs and over 550 yards of total offense.

vs South Carolina State Manziel was allowed to stay in for only 5 TDs, but also only 250 yards of total offense.

vs Sam Houston State Manziel was allowed to stay in for only 5 TDs again and over 350 yards total offense

That's 4 teams and 22 TDs.

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FAIL 2: A&M had to drastically change their nonconference schedule because they went from 3 nonconference games to 4 and because Arkansas was previously a nonconference game.

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And it apparently took you years to recover and the SEC had to add a rule about P5's just to get you to stop making easy schedules.

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FAIL 3: Here were Manziel's stats in the regular season.

NONCONFERENCE Passing: 73-116-2 for 1,130 yards and 13 TD
CONFERENCE Passing: 200-284-6 for 2,289 yards and 11 TD

NONCONFERENCE Rushing: 56 carries for 483 yards and 9 TD
CONFERENCE Rushing: 128 carries for 698 yards and 10 TD

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So in 4 OOC games he was able to get more TDs than the other 8 conference games combined, and way more yards per average as well.

Yet you pretend like that was an even amount of games.

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FAIL 4:

-Florida 20, A&M 17. Taylor Bertolet missed a field goal

-LSU 24, A&M 19. Taylor Bertolet missed two field goals and an extra point

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A&M's defense didn't get the credit they deserve that's for sure. They were also the real reason A&M beat Alabama.

But I was more speaking about the A&M offense, which did get killed. Manziel had more interceptions than TDs over those games and A&M couldn't get shite going.

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FAIL 5: Manziel's completion percentage against Alabama was 77.4% (24 for 31). After taking a 20-0 lead in the first quarter, Alabama outscored A&M 24-9. (Failed 2 point conversion happened because, guess what, Bertolet missed ANOTHER PAT)

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Not sure what point you are trying to make with this. A&M got out to a quick start and then got shutdown.

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FAIL 6: See FAIL 1 and FAIL 5. Manziel was the first quarterback to both score 20 rushing and 20 passing touchdowns AND throw for 3,000 and run for 1,000 in the same season. Compared to Manti Teo (who never scored a single career point) and Colin Klein, who had ok stats, he was the obvious choice.

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And as pointed out earlier, more than half those rushing and passing TDs came in just 4 games and so did a bulk of the yards.

You can keep trying to spin stats all you want, but it doesn't change the truth.