re: B. Harris Scrimmage Peformance

Brad Kaaya, a true freshman 2014, had a better yr than Mett with more total yds and TDs.

Kenny Hill So, and Kyle Allen Fr split time for A&M and both had far more TDs than AJ this yr and had 62 and 67% completion.

The first CFP 4-team playoff won by OSU's Cardale Jones who had only started the last 3 playoff games, plus ALA Blake Sims, first year starter, was a semi-finalist.

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Five of the final seven BCS championships were won by first-year starters: Florida State's Jameis Winston, Alabama's AJ McCarron, Auburn's Cam Newton, Alabama's Greg McElroy and LSU's Matt Flynn. First-year starters won just two of the first nine BCS titles (Ohio State's Craig Krenzel and Tennessee's Tee Martin). Add in Notre Dame's Everett Golson, Oregon's Darron Thomas, Ohio State's Todd Boeckman and Auburn's Marshall, and nine of the past 14 quarterbacks to play for the national title were first-year starters. By comparison, only five of the 18 quarterbacks who played for a national championship from 1998 to 2006 were in their first year as a starter. Another way to think of it: Over the past 50 years, 60 percent of the Associated Press champions were led by a returning quarterback, yet 71 percent of the champions since 2007 have had a first-year starter under center.

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How did "you" decide that AJ is more cerebral than Harris? You have nothing quantitative to support that or many of your posts. The fact is that AJ was last in the SEC and ranked 122 EVEN with Harris's completions included. Harris had a 74% completion rate, 243 rating, and 96 QBR, the highest in the nation after ULM, SHSU, MSST, and NMST. He had 30 shotgun 3+WR sets vs NMST and the highest ppm rating (2xMariotta's) in the nation. Harris had scored 91 pts in under 3 qtrs and in 13 of 19 possessions on the year compared to AJ's 13 of 51 on the year after 5 games.

Then we go to AUB and Harris gets stuck under center, starting with 17 of 19 obvious running plays, into a stacked box, that went nowhere against an explosive AUB offense that, like MSST was soft vs the pass. ESPN:

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Auburn was going to try to stack the line like MSST and force LSU to throw.

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Down 24-7 at the half with a conservative ball control was not Chavis' fault, we just could not keep up with an explosive offense being so unbalanced and predictable.