Chokelahoma

Colt McCoy’s heisman hopes were accelerated by his impressive rushing attack Thursday night in front of a national crowd making Texas fans wonder “Vince Who?”

The aggies of Texas A&M came to play despite the incredible odds against the boys in maroon. Jerrod Johnson was nearly perfect through 3 quarters and his streaky receiving core was anything but, hauling in highlight catches and over matching the vaunted UT defense. The team that showed up in College Station wasn’t the same squad that embarrassed Texas Tech earlier in the season and certainly wasn’t the team that lost to Colorado. This was an emotional and hungry bunch looking for a chance to send their hated in-state rival home with nothing to be thankful for this holiday weekend.

But despite how impressive the Texas Aggies were, Colt McCoy was that much better.

The Texas defense, this year referred to as the “Legion of Boom”, looked confused and bewildered at times allowing 39 points and a half century of yards, but every time aggie fans thought their dream moment had arrived McCoy rang the alarm. He was absolutely masterful compiling 478 offensive yards but the 302 in the air were no where close to as valuable or painful for the home crowd as his 176 yards on the ground. Colt, simply put, is a defensive coordinators worst nightmare. After accounting for Jordan Shipley, after stuffing the running game, even after watching for screens and trick plays no one can cover a scrambling #12. McCoy scampered for 3 yards to make first downs as often as 13. His legs gave way for his arm to be effective.

2008 was statistically better than the 2009 campaign but in a pure comparison of quarterbacks, no one has been more explosive and more valuable to his team than Colt McCoy. In the final regular season game, amidst the darkest hour of the year thus far and in front of America, Colt shimmered like a super nova.