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Give Me The Gas And I'll See You In Moscow

Besides giving a transitive property national title to Ole Miss, the Gators' win in the BCS title game over Oklahoma means several extremely portentous things.



1. Urban Meyer Is Officially A Boss. Two BCS titles in four years at Florida and a recruiting machine cut from the guts of his in-state rivals establishes Florida as the premier football program on the East Coast. Cut the college football universe in two: Florida gets first dibs east of the Mississippi, and USC gets everything west of it. If there is a just football deity around, the two teams will meet for a game in the next three years before one or both coaches suffers a midlife crisis and takes a pro job.

(Yes, Pete Carroll's approaching 60. But do you doubt he's living to 120?)

2. Future Heisman Winners: Decline. There is no scientific evidence that being a Heisman winner in a national title game will lead to you losing. It has nothing to do with the Heisman whatsoever. Despite this, the next winner should send a stand-in to accept the award in their stead, like James Van Der Beek in his Varsity Blues jacket. Anything to avoid the possibility that a curse exists. Just say you have some intestinal bug. No one will ever press you about that.

3. Decelerate, please. Assumptions one should not make about this game: 1) Bob Stoops always loses big bowl games. Untrue. By the record, he only loses 66% of them. 2) All Big 12 defenses are uniformly awful. Inaccurate. This proves only that the defenses Oklahoma faces are uniformly awful, which means all Big 12 defenses save Oklahoma, which kept Florida's offense in check for most of the game. 3) Fox puts on an incompetent broadcast. No. Incompetent doesn't cover how inept their clodfooted work on the BCS has been.

4. Vote independent. Go ahead and vote whomever you like. The system holds little meaning, so go ahead and vote your Utah or Texas. With no playoff, feel free to write your own storyline. The tight game played tonight lent fuel to the fire of those who claim we have no definitive winner...which remains a fact. We don't.

5. Give me the gas and I'll see you in Moscow. Sooo...line up Utah versus Florida for the 15th in New Orleans, and USC versus Texas in Pasadena on the same day, and then have the winners do it here in Miami on the 22nd. When Patton reached the line of control with the Russians, he allegedly said, "Give me a million gallons of gas and I'll see you in Moscow." Give me the money to make it happen, and we'll see you in Playoffland for the war we all really want to see.

This post originally appeared on the Sporting Blog. For more, see The Sporting Blog Archives.

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The Florida Gators are the national champions and the SEC wins yet another national title! Being from the South and being an SEC fan, it just feels gooood!

The spread offense of Urban Meyer scored enough to win because of good defensive play by Florida. [The Gators play defense]!  This is another key to their winning 2 national championships in 4 years! I thought the championships were over when Steve left. [So I thought] ha ha.

Winning a national championship is one of the ultimates in life and about has say, uhh 40,000 young people [students]  happy and by now probably reeling from a party!

I expected over 60 points from the two teams combined. It wasn’t much past half of my total. Florida although they like to score, can rough it up with you I am seeing and actually have through all their championships.

Congratulations to Urban Meyer and the Florida Gators on another not only super but superlative season!

Newly hired Coach Lane Kiffin also watched and has a leg up Florida fans[he saw Urban play 8 months before Urban can see him coach, since coming to Tennessee]! I can’t wait  next year to see Tennessee play against national champion Florida! I know it, a die hard Tennessee fan          

Tonight:        Go Blue and Orange!

Kcland

by kcland on Jan 9, 2009 1:45 AM EST reply actions  

So is Utan the national champ? Because if they don’t get a piece of the champ the BCS is worthless. This game seemed pathetic because it didn’t feel like two teams that even seemed like the best of the college teams. I say three way championship:Florida, Utan and USC. The Gators did not look like champs to me they seemed to luck out throughout the game. Also something that really bother me was the two commentators seemed to be in love with Teabow. In not just because of what he has done on the field but because of his “talent” if you know what I mean. Very odd and just weird I thought people in sports were suppose to be subjective. Guess not. Since ESPN keeps trying to make the claim that he is the best player of all time but once he goes to the NFL he won’t be a QB because frankly HE’S NOT REALLY THAT GOOD. Without that D people would be making jokes about him not praising him with creepy admiration. So another national championship goes by with me asking: Who cares? All these bowl games that don’t matter and this is like the king of the games that don’t matter. So Florida won two national champ games in three years. Okay and? Besides the regular season of teams they picked to play who did they beat to prove they were champs? USC? Nope. Utah? Don’t think so. So sure they are Orange Bowl champs. To me that means the only thing they proved is they can beat Oklahoma. So what? So did Texas and they aren’t the champs and hell they also beat OSU… I just don’t get can the NFL playoffs get here please?!?!?

by Doomacracy on Jan 9, 2009 1:58 AM EST reply actions  

Florida defeated BCS opponent Oklahoma, who had the Heisman winner, in the committee decided and fore agreed upon, national championship game!

by kcland on Jan 9, 2009 2:19 AM EST reply actions  

USC would have smashed both of these teams by 18

by LaSteevLa on Jan 9, 2009 2:21 AM EST reply actions  

USC couldn’t get by Oregon State and didn’t have enough high ranked teams to play late in the season to get them into the NC game, sorry. Believe what you want, but the Florida Gators are this years’ National Champions!

by Bender2497 on Jan 9, 2009 2:30 AM EST reply actions  

Yes Florida is the National Champ.  But they would have lost to USC. 

Championship calibre teams shouldnt be held back by their bad conference.  Which went 5-0 by the way ;)

by LaSteevLa on Jan 9, 2009 2:38 AM EST reply actions  

I have to say that this was a pretty good game.  Two good teams going after each other and playing hard the whole way through.  Congrats to Florida for winning a 2nd title in 3 years, that is an awesome accomplishment.

However, it just didn’t feel like a National Championship game.  It didn’t resolve who is the best team.  Isn’t that the point to this game?

Before the Bowl season I thought Florida, Oklahoma, Alabama, Texas and USC were all pretty equal but now it is clear that Utah and USC were by far the most impressive teams in their bowl wins.  Admidtedly, I am a USC fan but last year I would not have argued for them to be in the NC picture.  This year though, they and Utah deserve to be right there as well.   

Florida is the BCS champion but are they the best team this year????  Another year and we will never know.  I just wish Utah, Texas and USC had their chance to prove it on the field.  Wouldn’t a Texas vs USC and Utah vs Florida Semi-final sound pretty good?

Oh well another year and another sour taste in my mouth…..

by USCGG on Jan 9, 2009 2:39 AM EST reply actions  

USC beat the crap out of the 8,9, 10 ranked teams…LOL…this is not about deciding who the best team is….its about politics….if you think Florida can beat USC I will be more then happy to take that money from you….

by SailorGabe on Jan 9, 2009 2:39 AM EST reply actions  

What funny is neither one USC or Florida will play each other.  So how does anyone kno who will beat who? Jus because this team beat this team, but that team beat that team.  Doesn’t mean beans. Until there is a playoff, no point in arguing paper match ups.

by sho down11 on Jan 9, 2009 2:46 AM EST reply actions  

Bender,

Yes USC lost to Or St on the road in the 3rd game of the season.  Using your reasoning only Utah should have been in the title game because Oklahoma shouldn’t have lost to Texas and Texas shouldn’t have lost to Texas Tech and Florida shouldn’t have lost to Ole Miss who had the same record as Oregon St.  By the way they also won their bowl game against a ranked opponent without their top two offensive weapons, 51% of their offense during the season.  It seems that USC has taken undue criticism for losing to a pretty good football team on the road.

Everyone will agree that Florida is the BCS champion this year.  Great accomplishment but after watching the bowl games I am not convinced they were the best team.  If there was a playoff system they very well might prove that they were as they have a very good team.  I think what some people have a hard time with is that USC and Utah looked like better teams. 

Who would win those playoff games?  We will never know and that is the frustration for us fans of teams not invited to the beauty pageant. 

by USCGG on Jan 9, 2009 2:53 AM EST reply actions  

Let’s see. USC loses to an unranked team. Florida loses to an unranked team. Texas beats #1 on a neutral field, then loses to #7 on the road. Florida beats #1 by 10 on a neutral field. Texas beat #1 by 10 on a neutral field. Hmmm….. And Texas gets punished in the final poll, despite winning their BCS bowl game over a top 10 team. Hmmm…..

Oh yeah, Utah! UTAH!!! Ooops, forgot. They can never win a national title for the reat of human history. My bad. Sorry. I don’t know what came over me there. 

by J Bone A on Jan 9, 2009 9:37 AM EST reply actions  

Good call on the pathetic broadcast.
Big plays with no replay, even when the OU’s hurry-up was not a factor. No, we had to see the coach’s reaction. Which usually is: stoic.
Fanboy-level call and commentary. ESPN’s third string is better, and this was the Biggest Game in All the Land. Yikes.

Oh, yes. Go Gators.
Now I can understand a widespead anti-Tebow backlash because of the deluge of fawning publicity. 
But here in Florida, he is our young Warrior God King, and we are quite fond of the lad.  

by KeysCuda on Jan 9, 2009 6:33 PM EST reply actions  

USCGG,

Both UF and OU didn’t look like the teams that they were during the season. I can see why most people who probably only watched this one game of UF or OU would feel like their team is better. I’ve seen every Florida game this year, and they have been nothing but impressive. Florida has played lights out after the Ole Miss loss early in the season. Not only have they done that, they put a beating on a (at the time) top five ranked LSU and a top five ranked Georgia, as well as beating the (at the time) #1 ranked Alabama, and now a (at the time) #1 ranked Oklahoma. I’d say that’s a pretty impressive resume.

by Bender2497 on Jan 11, 2009 12:26 PM EST reply actions  

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