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A look around the MWC

By Kevin Acee
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 8, 2004

Alex Smith's improvement might well be measured in more games like defending-MWC champion Utah's season-opening rout of Texas A&M, wherein Smith completed 21 of 29 passes for a career-high 359 yards and three touchdowns and ran 13 times for 76 yards and two TDs. But it's not stats that make Smith the quarterback he is. Maybe that's why Smith is sometimes mentioned as the most underrated player in the conference. Maybe that's why he is sometimes mentioned as the most overrated. There is no qu ...

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