Wow, what a great Super Bowl!  I was moderately rooting for the Colts, but am extremely happy for the Saints after watching them win an awesome game!

Several things stood out to me (and to many other national analysts it seems as well):

-The Colts went super conservative at times in play calling, especially trying to force the run when it had stopped working.  They were forcing the run with one of the best quarterbacks of all time in his prime taking the snaps??

-The Colts made several poor coaching decisions (play calling in the red zone, going for the long field goal, conservative GP throughout most of the game)

-The Saints absolutely had the more aggressive game plan.  They had coached their defensive backs to jump routes, they blitzed and blitzed, they were aggressive in passing, they went for multiple risky plays (i.e.- on-sides kick).

To me, this game was a classic representation of Tressel (= Colts) against the other top coached teams in college football.  Never in a million years would Tress approach a game like Sean Payton did for the Saints.  Tress wouldn't even take on 10% of Payton's game plan style from the Super Bowl. 

My point is that the game has changed in both college and the pros.  Unless you have a world class, shut-down defense (against both pass and run) that is heads and tails better than any other offense in their league (college or NFL), an ultra conservative game plan doesn't work in this day and age of football.  I don't think you need to be quite as aggressive as Sean Payton to win, but it seems to help in this day and age.

It's pretty clear that the Saints clearly out coached the Colts in this one.  When is the last time that we thought Tressel out coached someone in a big time game?  Especially against someone that was ranked significantly higher than the Buckeyes?  NEVER.