The View From Little Rock

After watching a wild game on Friday, I have one dominate thought: Thank God Darren McFadden plays for Arkansas. It is difficult to appreciate how good that guy is on TV. Our seats were, as you can see, low and in the end zone, so it was easy to see just how amazingly quick he is. He didn't run laterally as much as he seemed to float from one spot to another with alarming speed. I never saw Bo or Herschel in person, but I imagine McFadden is an approximation of those two players. If Arkansas could complete a forward pass to keep safeties more honest, he could run for 200 yards a game consistently and no one would beat the Hawgs.

Houston Nutt has adopted essentially a little league offense. Let your best player, McFadden, touch the ball every play and just let him outrun everyone else to the corner. Arkansas's problem is that no one should respect their passing game, because they don't have one. Marcus Monk seems like he should be an all-SEC player, but he'll never get there with such a terrible passing attack. I don't know why Mustain didn't play, but they need someone who is at least serviceable as a quarterback to handle UF's defense.

For LSU, is was a good performance. Absent a few turnovers, they played a great game, getting clutch scores when they needed them and containing McFadden enough to get the win. Why this team isn't in Atlanta is beyond me. They are better than Auburn and probably Florida, but they froze on the big stage against both of them. If they don't get a BCS bid, they will destroy some hapless Big 10 team.