Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney called the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl one of the best matchups of the bowl season. One could find a number of reasons as to why that’s the case, but maybe no reason rings more true than the matchup of two of the nation’s most dynamic players, Randall Cobb and C.J. Spiller.When Kentucky meets Clemson on Sunday at LP Field in Nashville, Tenn., at 8:30 p.m. ET for the Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl, one would be hard-pressed to find a more intriguing matchup of playmakers than the head-to-head battle of Cobb and Spiller.Although the two likely won’t be on the field at the same time, chances are they will have the greatest impact for their respective teams. How they factor into Sunday’s game could be the difference in winning and losing.And maybe no player has made a bigger difference in Kentucky’s winning the past two season’s than Cobb, a sophomore do-it-all.”The thing that jumps out to me is he’s a winner,” Swinney said. “He’s a competitive kid. You see teams from time to time throughout the course of the season and I’ve see Kentucky on a couple of occasions, and he’s just a guy that every time I’ve seen him play just jumps out at you. He’s got a great will to win. He’s a very tough, tough football player. A lot like C.J., he impacts the game in a lot of ways.”Despite a bit of a snub from the All-Southeastern Conference Coaches Team – one likely incurred by the lack of an all-purpose position on the team – it would be hard to find a more valuable player to his school in the league than Cobb. The sophomore from Alcoa, Tenn., has dabbled in a little bit of everything in UK’s offense the past two seasons. After splitting time as a quarterback and wide receiver in 2008, Cobb has turned into one of the nation’s most electric all-purpose players in his second season.Cobb is third in the SEC with 1,619 all-purpose yards thanks to an evolving pass catching game (427 yards and four touchdowns), an explosive return game (655 kick and punt return yards and one score) and an unstoppable run game (537 yards and 10 touchdowns) from the Wildcat package. But even those numbers pale in comparison to Spiller, who has become the college poster child for all-purpose yardage.Spiller, who at one point was being talked about as a dark horse Heisman Trophy candidate, has amassed 7,416 all-purpose yards in his career at Clemson, third all-time in Football Bowl Subdivision history. The senior tailback, who scored a touchdown in all 13 games this season, became the face of a Clemson team that, despite losing the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game, was one of the surprise stories of the year. “Spiller is faster than Cobb, I believe,” UK head coach Rich Brooks said. “The guy is a threat every time he touches the ball. It’s one of those deals where you just kind of hold your breath every time he does touch it and hope you (do not) give up big plays.”Asked what separates Spiller from maybe even the nation’s elite players like Cobb, Brooks said it’s his rare combination of eluding tacklers along with his home-run speed.”He can make you miss and sometimes when you think you’ve got him, all of a sudden that burst of speed will separate him from the tackler,” Brooks said. “He’s got the moves and he can run through and break tackles as well.”In a long and documented list of noteworthy accomplishments, it’s difficult to decide what’s more impressive of the two: the fact that Spiller was named the ACC Championship Player of the Game in a losing effort – an extremely rare feat – or his seven career kick returns for a touchdown, the current FBS record.If there is one thing that neither Cobb nor Spiller has on their résumés, it’s a bowl victory. Spiller is 0-3 in his career in postseason play and Cobb did not play in last year’s AutoZone Liberty Bowl because of an injury. The lack of a bowl victory does not taint Spiller’s legacy as one of the all-time college greats, Swinney said.”C.J. has given everything he’s had in every single ball game to help his team win,” Swinney said. “He’s missed one game in his entire career at Clemson. Not many championship games do you ever watch and the MVP is from the losing team. I don’t remember that happening, but that doesn’t happen very often. … C.J.’s legacy is well intact regardless of what happens tomorrow night.”The first-year Clemson head coach is right in one aspect: Win or lose, Spiller will go down as one of the best all-purpose players to ever play the game. If Cobb’s production continues on its current course, so will his.”One guy can’t win a game,” Swinney said.  But it’s hard to argue that two players will play a bigger hand in a bowl game than Cobb and Spiller.