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Dan Mullen used to be the head coach at Florida and Mississippi State, so he knows what good quarterback play looks like in the SEC.
Now a college football analyst at ESPN, Mullen gave some love to the conference he used to coach in by spotlighting 2 SEC quarterbacks for their terrific play in Week 10 victories. Mullen had Ole Miss’s Jaxson Dart and South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers among his top 6 quarterback performances of the week gone by.
We’ll start with Dart, who lit up the Arkansas defense to the tune of 515 yards passing and 6 touchdowns in a virtuoso performance that has some in Oxford talking Heisman Trophy. Dart completed 25-of-31 passes on the day and didn’t throw an interception, as the Rebels rolled to a 63-31 victory that kept them in the College Football Playoff discussion going into the Week 11 home showdown with Georgia.
Then there’s Sellers, the freshman phenom who led the Gamecocks to a 44-20 upset of then-No. 10 Texas A&M. Sellers did damage with his arm, throwing for 244 yards and 2 touchdowns without an interception, and he did some serious damage with his legs, too, rushing for 106 yards and 1 TD.
Sellers will next take aim at the Vanderbilt defense, as the Gamecocks head to Nashville on Saturday to face the Commodores.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
