re: Burrow & Manziel vs Alabama

It scares me to think A&M fans actually believe this.

Manziel played great vs Bama, and a lot of unlikely plays rolled A&M's way, and it was just enough to allow a lesser team to beat a greater team.


Burrow played great vs Bama, practically no ridiculous plays rolled LSU's way, and it took premature celebration by the defense to create a final score one can pretend in ignorance was the result of a close game.

Those two games were close enough to find some stats favorable to Manziel, but looking at his entire heisman season vs Burrow's entire heisman season are not remotely close. Now you could say A&M was a much worse team than LSU's overall, and Manziel must have been doing more in his role than Burrow was required to do in order to get the success that the respective teams had, but thats an argument with a hint of truth that's simply impossible to precisely measure.

The only fact I would put forward in this debate is that Burrow did everything that was required of him to lead his team to the greatest, most dominant season in the history of the sport, and Manziel did not.