Garret Gilbert: Hero... nearly

Last night during the first drive for Texas during their championship game, Colt McCoy was knocked out of the game, during the most important of his college career. In comes a true freshman, Garret Gilbert, and almost everyone who was watching the game thought the game was over, that Alabama was now really going to run over Texas. During the first half Gilbert was exactly what everyone was expecting, awful and he even managed to throw an interception with 15 seconds left of what was an awful play calling situation putting Alabama up 18 points. Then all of a sudden Gilbert grew up and brought back Texas to within 3 points. I had gone from feeling awful for him, to predicting that he would be the hero of Texas fans everywhere, and drive Texas 90 yards to the win with 3:12 to go. As I was predicting this and feeling as if I was really smart, Gilbert was blindsided and lost the ball and along with it Texas' chances of winning the game. I sat dissapointed as I thought how great of a story it would have been if he hadn't fumbled the ball at that point. Gilbert however through the game grew noticeably more confident as he fought to keep his nerves down infront of the millions fans that he had never played before. In the end I am excited for what will come from Gilbert as in the next years he matures, even though he's a championship short of where he should be.