Originally Posted by ScubaDoo
Reggie Bush ran up some big numbers in the wek PAC10 conference. he is a grat college back but the PAC10 is not known for strong defense from top to bottom.
Again, if defense wins championships they do so by stopping the entrie offense not one player. Given up 38 points and their defense won the championship?
In a game where about 1,000 yeards of offense was racked up....unless one team gained 750 yards...defense for neither team could be viewed as the reason for winning the championship.
Reggie Bush did rack up some yardage along with one big touchdown run as I recall. Again, the USC gameplan reduced his impact...not the TX defense.
You have missed the obvious success.....the special teams of TX did not allow Bush a big return...that was a shut down...but please, stop posting the TX defense won the championship giving up 38 points...were all those points scored by the USC defense?
Ok. Both offences were amazing throughtout the season both averaging about 50 points a game and yet both teams did not reach that average. USC did not play as hot as they usually did....why? Well, hmmmm, lets see, Reggie Bush didn't have his big numbers like normally. Even though what he did against Texas was real good, way better than what most tailbacks would of done, but the fact remains he did not play as well as usual. Texas's defence did stop USC's offence for the for the most part meaning that in the beginning of the game they could not stop it but at the end, USC couldn't pull it off. But what really won the game was the Vince Young. No doubt about that and if one person disagrees with Vince Young not winning the game and overcoming USC then they do not know what football is. Texas's last minute defence gave Vince the opportunity for him to perform. I don't think any football team ever against a team like USC has been down 12 points in the 4th quarter and then score 15 points to win a game. One Reason. Vince Young is god-like and Reggie Bush soundly struggled. End of discussion and NO the Pats will not win the Bowl nor the Bengals.