Bowl-game blowouts and Charlie Strong's future #DearAndy

In this week’s #DearAndy, Andy Staples answers your questions from Twitter on…

• Should the fact that Ole Miss’s Chad Kelly—the only quarterback to beat Alabama this season—didn’t have success at Clemson be viewed as a positive for the Tide? Alabama’s biggest priority is figuring out how to stop the Tigers’ current starter, Deshaun Watson.

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• Was the number of blowouts in bowl games this season alarming? Bowl games are difficult to predict and often produce weird results.

• When will be the appropriate point in 2016 to begin speculating about who will be Texas’s coach in 2017? Charlie Strong just completed his second season in charge of the Longhorns, but they’ve managed only 11 wins combined.

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