Mack Brown is the Greatest. Ish.

There is nothing like the Bowl season for blatant homerism. Let's jump right in to this beauty from the great state of Texas:

UT claims another win for the ages

It sure was a good game, but hard to celebrate squeaking by a team that lost to Penn State and was destroyed by USC.

Texas made its statement with heart, resolve and a relentless will to win.

And that statement said: "We, the Texas Longhorns, are just about as good as an Ohio State team that lost to Penn State and got destroyed by USC. You know, that team from California that also destroyed Penn State."

This is the kind of game Mack Brown will cherish long after he’s done. When people ask why he loved coaching, he’ll tell them about this Monday night.

As opposed to, say, that Rose Bowl game from the other year when his team had Vince Young and beat USC in the last seconds of one of the best national title deciders ever. Weird, but you never know about Texans. They're a different breed.

He’ll talk about Quan Cosby, who has neither the speed nor size of a great wide receiver. Yet he’s a great wide receiver because he has soft hands, terrific instincts and deceptive strength.

Or maybe he will talk about the national title he won with Vince Young at this stadium in Pasadena. Nah, probably not. Quan Cosby is a WAY better story.

He’s a lot like quarterback Colt McCoy, who is gifted in ways that can’t always be measured. He is another guy Brown will remember.

Because using stats like yards thrown for, completion percentage, quarterback rating or anything like that would totally do Colt McCoy a disservice.

This was a night two fabulous college football teams exchanged body punches for 60 minutes, each refusing to give into the other, each fighting through exhaustion and frustration.

... Brown proved again he’s as good as any coach in the country.

Beating an okay team = being one of the best coaches in the country is marginally better as a logical statement than Archie's post about Ohio State fans calling their loss a victory, but still meaningless when you consider that Mack Brown apparently showed his ability by barely edging out an offense-less team that lost to a disappointing Penn State and was torn to pieces by USC.