MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- As a rule, football coaches don't tend to get giddy, but Shane Beamer jokes that Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley comes pretty darn close when he watches redshirt freshman center Creed Humphrey maul opposing defensive linemen on tape.
"I know it's funny to say, but he really is almost giddy. He will lean up in his chair and say, 'Did you see what Creed just did, that block he just made?'" said Beamer, the Sooners' assistant head coach for offense. "He's been a man for us there in the middle this season."
And he will need to be a man again on Saturday night against Quinnen Williams, Alabama's Outland Trophy-winning nose guard.