Congratulations to the Florida Gators and the SEC.

[Condem]

CFA National Champions. Nice job!

[Capt. America]

1. Congrats Florida. You have a great team and showed up to play.

Never let it be said that I can't give the devil (or, in this case, Jesus-Timmy) his due.

By the way, the two coaches in the title game...Ohio boys.

[Jack from Charlotte]

2. They're both terrific coaches.....

OU fans can get ready now for the media boys to turn on Stoopes for losing several straight bowl games. OU'ers have to back him up. He's got OU in the mix with only about 5 other programs....Florida, Texas, USC, Ohio State....in the yearly National Champ mix. He returned OU to the top after a many year drought since Switzer.

[Upton]

3. Stoops has lost 5 consecutive BCS games

including 3 straight national championships...with the kind of money he makes, he should be taken to task..and rightly so.

[cobalt1999]

4. Come on. He's been to how many straight BCS games now?

What other team has sustained that level of excellence?

Who else are they going to get that's better than Stoops?

[Upton]

6. OU has become the Buffalo Bills of college football

[cobalt1999]

7. Hopefully next year they'll pair OU and Ohio State together

At least one of them will get a BCS bowl win.

[Jack from Charlotte]

12. Except for that one Championship he won. What an idiotic comparison.

Comparing a team that never won a championship with one that did.

[Awsi Dooger]

8. Imagine if a run-oriented coach had lost 5 consecutive high profile BCS games

That's what busts me up, the disparity in ridicule. Stoops' finesse offense has been abused in the mega games. Last night, 41 points below average, nothing serious. Similar against LSU and USC. Hell, the Sooners basically put up nothing even when they beat FSU in 2000. Last year they managed to put up some TDs only because West Virginia had so much cushion they could afford to trade points with that type of lead.

Maybe Oklahoma can celebrate a windfall against Boise State a couple of years ago. That was their glory.

Somehow I remember when Switzer and Osborne would lose a major bowl game with the option style attacks being shut down, and the wolves would come after them, fans and media alike. Terms like unsophisticated and out dated. Hilarious, looking back on it.

Florida was simply more physical when it mattered, in the short yardage plays and several times when the ball was in the air. IMO, the representative play of the night, and what was to come, was Oklahoma with 10 seconds remaining in the first half, 1st and goal but no timeouts remaining, tied 7-7. The TV analyst said obviously Oklahoma needs to throw it into the end zone. Correct, but I wasn't so sure they would. In Sam Bradford's mind, it's still like the regular season in the little finesse league, where a simple pitch to the 2 yard line would be rewarded with an uncontested jog into the end zone. I wasn't shocked at all when Oklahoma tried that. Or when it was blown up. If it weren't for my lifetime distaste for the Gators I would have loved it, the cutesy team having it stuffed down their throats.

Amazing the Big 12 still hasn't earned the ridicule it deserves. Like I posted more than a month ago, "I can't believe anyone takes the Big 12 seriously." Not one of the top 5 teams covered the spread in the bowls, in fact none came closer than 5 points away, a basic indicator of true conference standing as opposed to perception level.

[Jack from Charlotte]

11. Fine. "Take him to task..." Why not just run him off........

Look at the crap teams OU fielded from about 1988 on between Swtizer and Stoopes. 10 to 12 years of nothing. Now they're among the only 5 teams out of the 119 colleges competing for the very top prize.... and you want to "take him to task."

[jus_the_facts]

5. Let us pray..."...and God so loveth the SEC that he gave his only begotten son Tebow....

...and whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting records in the BCS." Tebow 3:16

:applause:

[Capt. America]

9. Brilliant post!

[jus_the_facts]

10. Thanks!

....I am an LSU fanatic...but pull for all the SEC teams...even the goddamn Crimson Tide in the post season games!! :D

[bigwillq]

13. Congrats Gators!

:bounce:

Was rooting for Florida since #81 Aaron Hernandez, who made a great shovel pass catch and run in the fourth, is from CT, and I have talked to him a few times.