{"id":292072,"date":"2025-11-14T23:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292072\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T23:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:35:11","slug":"tim-tebow-credits-ty-simpson-gunner-stockton-for-having-it-factor-in-their-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292072\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Tebow credits Ty Simpson, Gunner Stockton for having ‘it-factor’ in their game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the things said about Tim Tebow<\/a>\u2018s prolific football career, be it in college at Florida<\/a> or in the NFL, the one undeniable truth about the Gators\u2019 2007 Heisman Trophy winner was his \u201cit-factor\u201d in crunch situations. When the pressure was on, Tebow generally always found a way to lead his team to victory.<\/p>\n

And now in his role as an SEC Network analyst, the two-time BCS National Championship-winning quarterback sees many of the same clutch characteristics from two first-year SEC starters: Alabama<\/a>\u2018s Ty Simpson<\/a> and Georgia<\/a>\u2018s Gunner Stockton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s one person right now in college football that I want the ball in their hands at the end of the game \u2014 well, if there\u2019s two people \u2014 it\u2019s Gunner Stockton and it\u2019s Ty Simpson,\u201d Tebow said Friday afternoon on the SEC Network\u2018s The Paul Finebaum Show. \u201cLook at what (Stockton\u2019s) done in the fourth quarter and two-minute (situations). Some games he may not have had as good as a game, but dang, in the fourth quarter and the last five minutes and on the last drive, there\u2019s an it-factor about him. <\/p>\n

\u201cI also think that Ty Simpson has a bit of that it-factor too. There are some other really good players around the country, but my favorite thing about individuals is what they do when their best is needed,\u201d Tebow continued. \u201cWhat do they do in the most crucial moments? And are you that guy then or in the first quarter? Are you the guy on 4th-and-10, like Ty Simpson in the Missouri<\/a> game? They don\u2019t win (that game) if he doesn\u2019t make those elite passes. That\u2019s what I see out of both of these guys that have really elevated their entire teams because of that (type of) play.\u201d<\/p>\n

This weekend, both Simpson and Stockton will undoubtedly be pressed into flashing their \u201cit-factor\u201d in a pair of pivotal Week 12 showdowns against Top 15-ranked SEC rivals with significant conference and College Football Playoff implications on the line. Simpson and No. 4 Alabama (8-1, 6-0 SEC) face visiting No. 11 Oklahoma<\/a> (7-2, 3-2 SEC) in Tuscaloosa at 3:30 pm ET, while Stockton and No. 5 Georgia (8-1, 6-1 SEC) host No. 10 Texas<\/a> (7-2, 4-1 SEC) in Athens at 7:30 pm ET. Both games are on ABC.<\/p>\n

Both Simpson and Stockton are among the late-season favorites to win this year\u2019s Heisman Trophy, with Simpson currently receiving the third-best odds (+550) and Stockton with the seventh-best odds (+3000), according to BetMGM\u2019s latest projections<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of all the things said about Tim Tebow\u2018s prolific football career, be it in college at Florida or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,135167,398,396,397,99,44810,53934],"class_list":{"0":"post-292072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-gunner-stockton-22-rabun-county","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tim-tebow-06-ponte-vedra","15":"tag-ty-simpson-22-westview"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}