Manning "upsets" Tebow in Finebaum's Best SEC QB Bracket

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Peyton had to knock off dad in the semis.

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This shouldn't really be considered an upset. Manning is 10x the QB Tebow is. The huge gulf in their NFL careers proves it.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
This shouldn't really be considered an upset. Manning is 10x the QB Tebow is. The huge gulf in their NFL careers proves it.
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I think this is in reference to their time in college football. Considering the titles tebow has in college vs manning in college suggests that this is an upset, since tebow has a couple and manning has zero.

Now if they were comparing overall qb tenure, manning wins hands down
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
This shouldn't really be considered an upset. Manning is 10x the QB Tebow is. The huge gulf in their NFL careers proves it.
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I don't think people are debating who is the better QB. The bracket is about who is the best SEC QB, not who had the best collegiate/NFL career combined. It's obvious that Peyton has had the most successful career, but when you look at Tebow's collegiate accomplishments it's pretty impressive
 
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How the h3ll did Tebow get past Joe Namath?

While they're both SEC QBs, if you consider their life's work.....there's no comparison.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
This shouldn't really be considered an upset. Manning is 10x the QB Tebow is. The huge gulf in their NFL careers proves it.
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If you include their NFL careers then Tebow is not even worthy of being Peyton's shoelace cleaner. However, this was talking about college careers.
 
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Paul was also demanding a recount. He said there's no way Manning should have won
 
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I think Cam Newton was better than Tebow, yea it was only 1 year at Auburn but he did something Tebow never did...Go Undefeated
 
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While 99% here don't want to admit it...in college Tebow got it done, and Peyton did not get over the hump in his big games (most notably vs. Florida).

Whether it was coaching, offensive scheme, or whatever Tebow did one thing very very very well while at Florida - win. Peyton did one thing very very very well at UT - put up stats. Tebow's career and Manning's career never intersected, and the college game changed a lot from Manning's time to Tebow's time.

At the end of the day, although no one wants to hear this, Tebow was the better COLLEGE quarterback. is run and pass versatility made it difficult for offenses to plan. He was good. He earned everything he has received for his college career. However, a lot of people voted based upon the sum of their total careers and Peyton has clearly has the better football career. That's what makes polls like this tough, as the skills to be elite in college don't always transfer to the pro level.

I understand Paul's point. In college, Tebow was extremely effective as he could run or pass well enough to beat most of the defenses he played. In the NFL they took away his run ability and exposed his poor passing game. Most college teams couldn't do that.

Same reason Michael Sam was a dominate defensive player at Missouri, but then couldn't make a roster in the NFL. Success in college doesn't always translate to NFL success.
 
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Teams win championships and not one player. As far as playing the position of QB, Tebow couldn't hold Peyton's jock in a college or pro game. Wuerffel was a better QB than Tebow.
 
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Happy to see Peyton was finally able to beat Spurrier. Too bad it didn't happen on the field back in the day. Beating Spurrier is always satisfying whether it happens on the field or off.
 
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A lot of you don't want to hear what I'm about to say. Do you know why this is even a discussion? It's because when Nebraska waxed UF in the 1995 Championship game Fulmer and his staff totally missed the zone blitz that Nebraska used on Florida while UF learned those very lessons to beat a UT team that was superior all day and twice on Sundays. And they did it Peyton's junior and senior seasons! That is the ONLY reason we are even having this discussion. If UT does an average job coaching we beat them in consecutive seasons and win a title in 96 or 97 for sure and this discussion is meaningless as no one would even contemplate putting Tebow in Peytons class.
 
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jlindsa4 said:
I think this is in reference to their time in college football. Considering the titles tebow has in college vs manning in college suggests that this is an upset, since tebow has a couple and manning has zero.

Now if they were comparing overall qb tenure, manning wins hands down
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Actually, if this was decided by a poll, it is only in reference to popular opinion among fans who vote in polls. Nothing more. And from what I have gathered from watching similar online polls, Tennessee fans are definitely adept at participating in them.

So congrats to those who did. And stop trying to look innocent. You know who you are.
 
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tnburban said:
While 99% here don't want to admit it...in college Tebow got it done, and Peyton did not get over the hump in his big games (most notably vs. Florida).

Whether it was coaching, offensive scheme, or whatever Tebow did one thing very very very well while at Florida - win. Peyton did one thing very very very well at UT - put up stats. Tebow's career and Manning's career never intersected, and the college game changed a lot from Manning's time to Tebow's time.

At the end of the day, although no one wants to hear this, Tebow was the better COLLEGE quarterback. is run and pass versatility made it difficult for offenses to plan. He was good. He earned everything he has received for his college career. However, a lot of people voted based upon the sum of their total careers and Peyton has clearly has the better football career. That's what makes polls like this tough, as the skills to be elite in college don't always transfer to the pro level.

I understand Paul's point. In college, Tebow was extremely effective as he could run or pass well enough to beat most of the defenses he played. In the NFL they took away his run ability and exposed his poor passing game. Most college teams couldn't do that.

Same reason Michael Sam was a dominate defensive player at Missouri, but then couldn't make a roster in the NFL. Success in college doesn't always translate to NFL success.
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No. What happened in the NFL was his teams no longer had a huge talent advantage over the opposition. The reason his success in college didn't translate to success in the pros is because in the pros every team has about equal amount of talent. There isn't as big a gap in team talent week in week out as there is in college between a team like Florida and the average SEC competition in 2008.

The pros simply expose the guys who couldn't really play in the first place. Tebow had more success in college than Peyton for one simple reason: his teams were more stacked.

Look back at the Florida roster from 2008-09. It was among one of the most talent laden college rosters in the last 20 years. You had elite NFL players at every position. And when Florida played other teams in the SEC, they're advantage based on pure talent was huge. That huge edge in overall team talent gave you the false notion that Tebow was actually elite.

Peyton in college played on some talented teams no doubt. But his teams never had more NFL talent than those 90s gator teams. Which is why he constantly lost to them.

The NFL exposes guys who rode the coattails of super talented teammates.
 
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