Deep in the heart of Texas

I gotta tell you, in all my years of watching college football, I don't remember ever seeing a performance like Vince Young's in tonight's national championship game, leading #2 Texas to a 41-38 victory over #1, undefeated in 34 games 2-time defending national champ USC.

The numbers--30 of 40 passing for 267 yards, an unbelievable 10 for 200 rushing for 3 TDs, including the game winner on 4th down with 19 seconds left--tell part of the story.

But you had to see it with your own eyes--how he ran through USC tacklers time and time again, even when everyone in the stadium knew he was going to run. How he calmly directed his team from behind time-after-time, eventually outlasting USC's historic offensive juggernaut of a 3,000 yard QB, two 1,000 yard RBs, and two 1,000 WRs. How he just put his team on his shoulders and willed them to victory.

What a game; both teams made eye-popping plays one after the other. In the end Young was just playing on an entirely different level.