The Orange Bowl appeared on paper to be a better game than it was. Part of its billing was a dual between two very good quarterbacks, Tyrod Taylor of Virginia Tech and Andrew Luck of the Stanford Cardinals.
The first half was pretty even with Taylor making fantastic throw on a broken play for a touchdown. Over all neither team did much in the first half. Stanford got 6 on a well executed running play that went 60 yards for the score.
The second half was all Andrew Luck, he was able to demonstrate all of his skills as a passer, runner and his ability to throw on the run. The Stanford line was awesome.
They gave Luck and the Cardinals all the needed. The opened huge holes for the running backs. They used dual tight end and double back formations and had their blocking schemes down pat. The Stanford O-line made the Hokies defense play honest and allowed little pressure on Luck.
They provided him with so much time he was easily able to run through his check off list. His play action pass plays were text book perfect as he stepped into the pocket and delivered picture perfect strikes for scores.
Tyrod Taylor is a very good quarterback and should play on Sunday. Tonight his dynamic duo of running backs was very silent, hardly any yardage for either of them. The Hokies were badly defeated in the battle of the trenches with Taylor being sacked 7 times. Yet he never quit he made some great runs and seemed to have the weight of the offense on his back.
I knew coming into this game that Luck was a gifted QB and is probably one of the best QBs in football this season. He did finish 3rd in the Heisman race. Tonight I know why he is so good, its his natural abilities to throw, run and read defenses and his offensive line.
The line coach for Stanford did a wonderful job preparing his line for tonight. He ran superb blocking schemes, the dual tight ends and power running game provided Luck all the support he needed to have an outstanding game.
Both quarterbacks played the best they could, in Taylors case he just did not have the running game support he needed or the time to pass, and that was due to the Stanford defense. They were on Taylor all night long, his offensive line was over matched out played and out coached.
Even though tonight was to be a dual of two quarterbacks it was really a dual between each teams line and Stanford won on both sides of the ball defeating VT 40-12
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