As a team it does so much to have someone you can lean on and rally the team in crunch time. Not having a field general hurts your team on so many fronts. Its defintely a team game, but the field leader is the glue that helps holds that team together. Its no doubt the better team won today. We even had a bunch of penalties and breaks that we didnt capitalize on. Michigan tried to give it away but we didnt want it.
If you drill it down each team needs to have a few stars emerge if they want to take it to the national championship level. They are both way too inconsistent.