It's also based off of Brooks' performance against Texas, which also featured our D-line dominating Tech's OL. Brooks managed almost triple the yardage, most of which was after contact.
What I saw in both games was that Tahj Brooks was a lot harder to catch and bring down for our defense than any other running back we faced -- and for the same front seven guys of ours. Tech wasn't doing any better job blocking -- worse, really. They sure as hell weren't scheming him into better plays. When they brought down Ollie Gordon, it was: Another day, another dollar. But when they brought down Tahj, you could just see the guys going, "Whew, thank GOD we got him down."
And if you look at the statistics of both games, you'll see what I mean; Tech managed 80 yards less of total offense than y'all against our D (281 for you over 56 plays for 5 yards per play, 198 for the Zorros in 61 plays for 3.24 Yards per play). But Tahj had much more success: 95 yards on 19 carries at a nice even 5.0 yards per carry, versus Ollie's 13 for 34, a downright pedestrian 2.6 yards per carry.
So the evidence of both my own lying eyes and the statistics is that both of y'all had shitty OLs, but Tech's is even shittier, and yet Tahj managed to get double the yards per carry that Ollie did. And that's just if we take the games in isolation, here. I put to you that if Ollie played for Tech and Tahj played for y'all, Tahj would be the rushing leader and Doak winner, and by a lot more than Ollie won it this year.