Tim Tebow's Not Peyton Manning. Good.

Every week during college football's endless offseason, The FanHouse Walk will put last week's stories to bed and deliver the essentials to bridge that agonizing space between now and September.

Championship! -- Texas Tech coach Mike Leach gets credit for taking on the NFL's accepted wisdom when it comes to quarterbacks, and now there's some interesting data out there that found its way to ESPN college football writer Bruce Feldman's blog via former coach Jim Donnan. Its an interesting look into the surprisingly vast offensive divide between college football and the manufactured entertainment that is the NFL.


Amazing. Not one of the five championship quarterbacks fits any kind of prototype. They've all generally been more mobile, unconventional and noodle-armed than what matters at football's highest level yet demostrated more winning ability in their college days than many decent NFL passers who are still getting paychecks.

Since the NFL is financially dominant it and its media partners set the narrative and there is much wringing of hands about these crazy college offenses and the skill players arriving from them. Perhaps though it should be the other way around as fans and media turn the table and ask why the NFL has become so cookie cutter, so generic, and uninspired compared to college football these days?

Tim Tebow is awaiting such a reply.

Corch Money -- With the jobhopping to Notre Dame talk not fading away, Florida doubled down this week in granting coach Urban Meyer a six year, $24 million contract extension making him the SEC's highest paid coach for 2009.

He's in the best preseason position of any coach since Pete Carroll in 2005 of leading his team to a national championship, which would be Meyer's third championship in five years. There's no reason for him not to be making that Carroll/Saban/Stoops/Weis (!) level money and today's news is a validation of that. Now just don't blow it particularly when the media swoonfest is in full gear. USC is still paying the price for that with fans years later.

Why Do People Hate The Regular Season? -- This is getting old. First the playoff movement, now the tired "Heisman vote after the bowls" discussion. People, people, people. The Heisman Trophy is a regular season award, just as college football is a regular season sport.

I love the bowl games but its often overlooked how strange they are relative to the regular season. Their outcomes often come down to which team is not necessarily superior but more motivated and aren't the same environment as the regular season which is more frenetic and week-to-week as opposed to having sometimes a month of preparation.

So our apologies to Vince Young, but the Heisman is meant to be won in the regular season.

On The Catwalk -- The Lane Kiffin Show does it again. Well played, sir, except for that Greg McMackin inspired bit at the end.



Overtime, Ball on the 25

-- ESPN College GameDay's Lee Corso says psssshhhhhtttttt, not so fast to this year's stroke taking him permanently off his game.

-- A look at offensive pace. Not the best measure of a team's offensive ability, but yet another piece of data that brings us closer to relatively explaining whats going on between the 120 teams in upper division college football.

-- Vanderbilt's performance last year has Phil Steele ever-so-slightly second guessing himself.

-- A surprisingly interesting discussion by and amongst wise guys about Conference USA team expectations this year.

-- The Rooney Rule is inching closer to passage in Oregon. I'm a huge supporter of the movement to bring more minorities into head coaching and athletic director positions, but there's just something not right about these kinds of measures being implemented in achieving that goal.