So stats are always apples to apples which makes them absolute???Rattler was. Did you even watch that game? Rattler accounted for 2 td's with 0 turnovers and his team won. Purdy had 1 td and 3 turnovers and he lost the game. ISU had all of these 1st teamers so you can't say overall team talent was the reason. Rattler just outplayed Purdy.
Therefore you're saying McDonald a sophomore is better than Nixon a Junior because his career stats show nearly twice as many sacks (16.5 to 8.5) and 4x as many forced fumbles.