CHAMPIONS.

scoreboard, bitches. Scoreboard. We. Win.
Just had to post that again. hope the ohio people read this and stew on that before pillaging columbus.

Was that Chris Tucker? Come on. The only song that can accurately portray my feelings now is Sabotage by the Beastie Boys.

I pillaged some of the best AP photos of the game on my site, so mosey on over if you’d like.

And, thank you, Florida. Mmmmmmmm……zzzzzzzzzz.

Holy fuck. What a totally brutal assramming that was. Congrats and enjoy fellas. Wow.

SEC-love in the offseason may just make me shoot myself.

Great game Gators… Basketball and football- Amazing.

And no, the fires out here had nothing to do with the game. There weren’t enough couches involved…

every day should be monday.

Florida was stronger, quicker, faster, tougher, smarter—there’s not a single positive adjective that I can think of that Florida wasn’t.
Their preparation for that game was stunning. I mean, Florida does not have a single SEC-caliber running back on that team, and yet they found a full game’s worth of creative ways to work around it.
tOSU, on the other hand, looked like its offense was coached by Mike Shula. It’s amazing how impressive they looked all season, and how impotent they were tonight.

Year of the Gator

It’s great to be a Florida Gator!

We’re the best. No one is better. How did we ever lose a game? I have nothing more to say

Troy Myth: MINUS 1 TOTAL yds. In the modern history of football, this has never been done.

Congratulations to the champion Gators.

As an SC fan I commend you all. You deserved it. Both USC and Florida exposed the Big Ten for the frauds that they are.

That stupid bs runback for a td will piss me off until the end of my days. Leak? Magnificent! D-line? Dominant!

I thought they had a running game? I thought Gonzales was every bit as good as Ginn?

Congrats Orson and congrats Gator fans. As a Husker fan and a fan of the Big 12, it was very nice to hear all the excuses that will come from OSU fans and Big 10 fans in general. Too bad there is no excuse. Speed kills.

Ted Ginn Jr who? Percy Harvin was amazing.

However, you guys have singlehandedly brought the BCS to its knees. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Let the bitching, whining, and moaning of college football fans commence.

To quote Al Bundy: Tee hee.

Congrats to UF, the proprietors of this fine site, and the SEC in general. (I must acknowledge the LSU fen who were witty and charming during my stay in NOLA this past weekend.) Don’t kill yourselves celebrating now, y’hear?

Suck it, Big Ten.

I just want this to stay fair – the Big 10’s top teams were overmatched this year, but Penn State and Wisconsin still had their way with their SEC opponents. The Big 10 looks bad enough this year – nobody has to make anything up at this point.

Hello work? Yes, I won’t be coming on Tuesday as I have a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP to celebrate!

That was an ass whooping of epic proportions.

Thank you Coach Meyer for bringing the pride and swagger back to G-Ville.

oh mylanta. i’ve never been so happy wearing blue and orange in an ohio state bar as a penn state alum.

To further quote Al Bundy:

“Take me to your finest bathroom!”

I wonder if Kirk Herbstreit still thinks Michigan deserved to be in the title game.

I know he wishes they had been. Watching the enormous OSU D-line and slowish linebackers attempt to run sideline to sideline grasping at air was painful. Backing up into a prevent defense wasn’t the answer, either.

At least those Michigan boys will stay in one place for a second so you can hit ’em.

tOSU = GatorBait

It is Great to be a Florida Gator

That clip from Friday sums it up perfectly. Oh, and to all those who said that Meyer can’t win in the SEC, much less the national title, two words: Told ya.

The South has risen again!

good going gators! nothing like servin’ up a cup ‘o STFU to the media when they keep on goin’ on and on and on about how good #1 is when you’re the underdog.

enjoy the ride, kids.

Heist’d

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Number 1 was definetely held

Congratulations to the Gators!

Nice to see that the Big 10 zone defense works like a charm in bowl games. (Ahem).

I cannot wait for the championship game between Boise State and Florida. That’ll be awesome.

Oh, wait — like figure skating, we let someone other than the athletes decide who wins championships?

When do the NFL playoffs start back up?

dcat

Are you going to do something, Ohio State….
or are you just going to stand there…
and bleed?

OK, assuming a plus-one playoff, who plays the Gators now? USC or LSU? Or BSU? Or someone else?

Congratulations. Without a doubt, the better team won tonight. Unlike 1996, there is no doubt. Florida is the completely deserving 2006 National Champions. No excuses. You were simply dominant tonight.

Looking back on this crazy year in college football and the BCS, I think the best BCS matchups would have been,

Orange and Fiesta Bowl stay the same,

OSU vs. Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl

Michigan vs. LSU in Rose Bowl

Florida vs. USC in BCS Nat. Champ.

Ah, giggling like a meth’d out maniac.

who’d have guessed that Leak would out Mancrush Nelson one night?

good luck to whoever jumps to the NFL. excited about the Tebow, Harvin, Spiller backfield in 2008.

and Orson. dear god, Orson. your writing makes me ashamed and proud to be a writer.

-miguel

RB that’s nice and all, but you can’t go from what you know now. You have to go from when the games were completed. USC lost to two unranked teams, are you telling me that they’re just as good as Florida? Granted OSU was flat out beat, but at the time there is no way you or me or anyone would have said that USC was just as good as the Buckeyes or Michigan.

USC fans can add to the whole “exposing the Big 10 for what it is” bandwagon, but try winning the games you’re suppose to win first before you go on a tangent.

And congrats to all the Gators fans out here is EDSBSland.

As a grad student at OSU who really got into the football culture this year, I offer my congrats to Florida fans. When a team gets decimated like that for four quarters they can’t point the finger at anyone. Florida deserves what they’ve accomplished this season…

…although I’ll be very interested in the upcoming AP poll results…

Yeeeeaaaahhhh!!! The O’Dome was on fire tonight. Every shot of crying tOSU fans elicited massive cheers. University Ave is totally f*&$ing nuts. Hells yeah fer palindrome ass-kicking. Go cure cancer! Go Gators!

Congrats, guys. Please spare enough brain cells from liquor – WOOOOOOOOOO LIQUOR – to keep blogging.

So true Anon8. We have choked twice this year against unrankers, yet I still truly believe that SC and UF as they both played in the respective bowls would be an even match. USC can actually pass block and has one of the speediest defenses around.

UF vs tOSU is like the Univision Sports girls vs. the View cast, (with special guest star Star Jones pre-op, Barbara Walters, Rosie O Donnell and Regis Philbin) in a bikini contest.

Regis looks more like a woman than Rosie, by the way.

YOWWWW……..mmm pizza

1. - Amen. I’ve never heard more crying and whimpering from a 2-loss team as from USC fans. Let them handle the PAC-10’s OSU before sniveling too much about deserving to play the other one. U of Spoiled Children never seemed like such an appropriate name.
   And ENOUGH about Boise State. They played out of their shoes and beat a mediocre Oklahoma team that underestimated them – anyone who thinks they could have run with either OSU or UF doesn’t know much about football. Most of their team would concede they weren’t NC material. They scheduled deadbeats and won the single big game on their schedule. It was fun, but not NC stuff. Do people really need to be told these things?

haha…yeah this year proves a “plus 1” would be pathetically insufficient for college football. congrats again guys.

I want the cotton-picker Subcommandante Wayne’s head on a platter, or at least his take on the biggest whipping I have seen since Georgia Tech beat little Cumberland College.

Wow. Not a unanimous #1 in AP. Boise got one first place vote. Tool.

Anon8 —
 But in a 16-team playoff USC, Michigan and the others would be able to prove it on the field. And that is the only place we ought to expect sports to prove their champions. Again, except for figure skating. And diving. So until we have a playoff system, major college football is the figure skating of team sports.

That was a great win for the Gators and for Gator fans (or Ohio State haters) and Florida deserves a share of the national championship, but I cannot take seriously any argument against Boise State getting the AP vote. And I don’t want to hear anyone — especially Florida fans, who just saw expert opinion turned on its head — say that they “know” what would happen if Florida played BSU. You only “know” after a game is played. That game won’t be played because the solons who run college football have their heads wedged in their polyp-holes.

And as I type this, ESPN reports that the AP votes Boise State number five, which is fucking ridiculous.

dcat

By record, OSU is obviously 2nd. By logic, Try 5th.

Dcat -

That’s crazy. I also don’t “know” if UF could beat my high school team – they didn’t play. For that matter, we don’t “know” if UF could beat FIU – they didn’t play, either, and that seems to be the only criteria you have for making a decision. Look, OSU “can” beat UF, and if they play 100 times, OSU would win some of them. That’s the reason that a head-to-head matchup is far more arbitrary than you seem to think. Oregon State beat USC, but who thinks they are the better team? My point is that anyone who’s blindly formulaic enough to feel that BSU’s lack of losses makes them equal to, better than, or worthy of a game against UF is willfully ignorant.

tOSU is Number 2 allright, a piece of crap.

How, by record, is OSU “obviously” second? Even “by record,” Boise State deserves a higher ranking than Ohio State.

dcat

Is ND the only team to have three losses – all to Top 10 teams? How in hell is PSU ranked behind UT in coaches poll with the same number of losses?

That spread option offense will never work in the SEC.

 ;)

Weis will win a MNC before Meyer

I wasn’t talking about BSU dcat.

Hmmmm.
Guess that settles the whole “style points” issue.

Scoreboard, Bee-yotch!!!

RB — I know you weren’t — you wrote : “By record, OSU is obviously 2nd. By logic, Try 5th.” But how can Ohio State “obviously” be second “by record” when there is a team — Boise State — that has a better record than Ohio State and that won a BCS bowl?

So you were not tallking (or writing) about Boise State, but I just do not see a rationalization, sans playoff, for Boise State to be anything lower than 2nd.

dcat

Will Meyer, Leak and Tebow replace The Ol’ Ball Coach and Wuerfell on the EDSBS Web Site Banner?

I recommend an amalgm of both.

Orson — we win! WE FREAKING WIN!

So beautiful. Even I didn’t predict a beatdown — I called for a 8-point win at the AOL Fanhouse.

I was wrong. Should have predicted the blowout.

We win, Orson. WE WIN.

By the way, I agree. A new EDSBS top-site header is in order.

Leak and Meyer, at the least. Tebow should probably be in there too.

A new order. The Ol’ Ball Coach? Forget it. Meyer is THE Ball Coach. End of story.

I am so freaking happy right now. I almost don’t know what to do with myself, cynical, nasty curmudgeon that I am.

Congrats. Now let Wayne have his say.

Congratulations guys. To admit, i had my doubts, but i guess you really can’t argue with success like that. How long do you think Meyer will be around until he gets snatched up by the nfl?

I don’t think I will ever sleep again. The booze and ass whuppin’ mixture has created some sort of perpetual motion machine in my whiskey soaked brain. I no longer fear death.

just FYI No. 49: Arkansas lost to Florida, LSU, USC and Wisconsin. That’s four top 10 teams. Unshabby on the Pigs’ part.

Also Congratulations to the Gators. What an excellent way to silence every critic. That was such a romping. I couldn’t be more jealous; our uncreative asses never made Troy Smith poo his pants like that.

Revel, Gators, revel.

In conclusion: Clarence Darrow is a Michigan alum; Ohio State is the home of the Star Jones Center for Rhetoric and Writing.

Also, space, bitches, space. And huzzah to our reptilian, death-rolling overlords.

Orson,
When are you printing up some “SEC (or Southeast Conference as Barry Alvarez likes to say) SPEED” t-shirts?

Congratulations from an ND fan living in Big Ten country. I can almost forgive Urban for dissin’ ND!
The a$$ beating you put on tOSU was a thing of pure beauty. Wonder if the fires are out in Ohio yet?

Wow, that was fucking crazy. I was happy for Chris Leak and all his peers who suffered under [NAME REDACTED]. My girlfriend, who has zero interest in football, watched 5 painful minutes of Troy Smith and his O line being destroyed and said the Buckeyes looked like they were moving in slow motion.

In the bizarro world of the NFL Draft where one nationally televised game is usually more important than a resume compiled over 2 or 3 years Leak probably just played himself into a bright future as a back-up NFL QB. Troy Smith on the other hand…well, I hope somebody looks past this game (and the fact that was getting manhandled on nearly every single play) and still gives him a shot. I even started feeling a little bit bad for him after that last Tebow TD run. Thanks to the WWL for coining an idiotic phrase instantly (the “Fall of Troy”? awesome. someone’s pinkie should be chopped off for that one). I also supremely enjoyed one of the college football “experts” asking Chris Leak post game what he wanted to say to the “so-called experts” like him without a trace of irony.

Anyways, many many congratulations, this a great blog and thanks for a great season, enjoy your offseason Florida, great win (may have erased 62-24. almost.), etc.. tOSU, I’ll see you guys next year when you beat the crap out [NAME REDACTED] again.

Congrats to all you Florida fans, that was a very impressive win. As A Michigan alum, I was one of those who cursed Florida after we got jumped, but that hatred didn’t last long. OSU played like Michigan and look what happened! Actually, I was looking for Charlie Weis’s spare tire on the sidelines, but he was back in South Bend gorging on fried dough. Way to go Gators!

From a Buckeye: GOOD JOB, GATORS!!

Make sure you buy your D-Line a case of Astroglide — I wouldn’t want those boys getting friction burns on their junk. They’ve got a lot of, um, “accolades” to receive.

You guys just absolutely murdered our O-Line, which royally screwed our offense as a whole, and that was that. You played a brilliant game. Congratulations, again! I’ll be rooting for Florida next year, along with the Bucks. Meyer’s putting together something special for you guys—enjoy it, and appreciate him—it’s not every day you find a coach like him.

Fantastic job, Chris Leak! Fantastic job, Gator D-Line!

Congrats Gators from Auburn,Al. What an a$$ whippin’! I told you it would be 0-8.

Chomp. Chomp.

Well done, Gators, any time you can lay one on Cheatypants McSweatervest, it’s a sweet day.

It. Is. A. Great. Day. Florida Gators National Champions.

Congrats on a huge game – great season.

Watch out for next year!

Eventually I’ll resume my usual ‘I hate Florida’ role that Georgia fans have to embody … but right now, after watching the SEC prove its worth and then some, I can hold off on that for a bit.

Nice job.

Also, kudos to the Florida defensive lineman (McDonald maybe?) who said after the game …

‘I mean, Ohio State is a good team … but we played four teams in the SEC that were better than them.’

Good job Gators! That was a thing of beauty. I actually feel good about our loss (21-14) to you now. Not all those others though! See you in Jacksonville.

Ouch. Never would have guessed that outcome, but that’s why you play ’em.

Congrats Gator fans, especially the owners of this fine site—an absolute tribute to the greatest sport on earth. Winning it all makes February-August bearable. Losing it all makes for a tough few decades.

Better luck to us next time,
TGdE

Orson, didn’t Troy also have a fumble last night? That needs to be added to the box score you posted at the top of this thread.

At least Troy will have a nice Heisman Trophy paperweight to look at when he’s not playing for long in the NFL.

Congrats Gators, you deserved it! Especially Chris Leak.

Karma does exist…

I know I’m the only person who cares about this, maybe even the only Georgia fan, but Georgia only lost to Florida by one touchdown; Ohio State lost by four touchdowns. Thereby I decree that Georgia is four times better than tOSU HA HA SUCK ITeleven

Congratulations to our new Gator overlords, especially the EDSBS crew. Y’all are a big part of the reason I’m not stabbing myself in the neck with a pencil over the fact that Florida holds the national titles in football AND basketball at the moment.

Ron Zook is so proud o fhis boys right now.

Wow. Thank you Florida Gators and Congratulations!
My Dad called me last night at Midnight (he hates OSU as much as I do) and says:

“Isn’t this priceless? Isn’t this just great? Do you know the best part? When they show tOSU fans crying in the stands!”

There were 8 minutes left in the game……

My Dad is a grown man in his late 50’s. The Gators brought much joy to our family last night. Thank you.

Enjoy Orson. Don’t kill off Subcomandante Wayne. He is obviously a good luck character.

What’s up ACC? You sure did suck this year. Your teams don’t start showing up until #17-18.

Also this quote is so, so true:

“We played a lot better teams than Ohio State this year,” Florida’s Jarvis Moss said, a piece of blue confetti sweatstuck to his neck. “I can name four or five teams in the SEC that would compete real well against them.”

For #52 Ed:

Not even close. Arkansas finished 10-4, and lost to the Coaches’ Poll 1,3,4, and 5 ranked teams. (1,3,4, and 7AP)

Well done and well earned. Thanks and congratulations from Mountaineer land.

I’m pretty sure that was Reggie Ball in the pocket back there – it looked just like him.

I cannot believe what a huge Gator fan this Auburn fan was last night. Congrats, guys. Helluva game.

1. Doug: If we’re playing that game, then what do you say to Auburn? By Bama’s standards, I think we just won a national title too.

Seriously – Leak looked amazing last night. Wow.

Michigan fans can suck it for trying to deny us this opportunity. The Big Ten stinks.

It’s worth revisiting this quote from the single Harris voter who saw this coming and voted Florida number 1 before bowl season even started:

“If you look at the Big Ten conference, it is a
joke… I voted with my heart and I voted with the
strength of what I believe in. In my opinion, Florida
is the No. 1 team in the nation.”

-Former Washington State and Iowa State coach Jim
Walden

Hell, go ahead, take a share of the national title if you want. The way tOSU was moving (or, to look at it another way, not moving) the ball last night, Auburn’s D would’ve eaten them alive.

Jeez, where was that shitty piece of shit team on November 18? Fucking tOSU.

congratulations Florida! Man – did you guys show up and make the SEC and many others proud. i could hardly sleep thinking about FL slapping the almight OSU team around…
What a great day to be an SEC fan!
And, not a bad day to be an Auburn Tiger as well…..
Congrats.

Orson and Stranko,

For all the enjoyment this site has brought to myself and the masses of college football fans since its launch, a national title is the absolute least the football gods can do for you two.

Congratulations, and enjoy your celebration!

P.S. I’ll even give you a couple weeks to get past the joyous hangover before I start pestering you to resume your hilarious off-season college ad reviews… ;-)

Congrats, UF fans. That was a royal asswhipping the likes of which I haven’t sat through since late in the Cooper Era. “Pathetic” doesn’t begin to describe it. The better team clearly won. Your boys deserve it.

The A.P. rankings further demonstrate that the sports media are a bunch of jerkoffs.

Congratulations from an Ohio-born Auburn fan. Way to represent!

Orson & Stranko,

Congrats Gents!! Of course, Orson, apparently, I must also pray for the soul of TCOAN that you sold to Satan.

(Beelzebub offered the 41-14 score yesterday… weird)

And all this time I thought marijuana made you slow and lethargic.

have to agree with a few others….would be nice to hear from the subcommandante on thurs!

Congratulations Gators…you guys obviously deserved to win. I’ve always enjoyed this site, but now I won’t be able to visit it without experiencing PTSD. How appropriate that our band’s halftime show was a “Titanic” theme. sigh

Congratulations Gators! Though I hate UF with the white-hot intensity of 1000 stars, I must give credit where credit is due. Last night’s game was simply a behind-the-woodshed beating that no one had predicted; the Gators completely dominated on both sides of the ball all game and had this thing won by half-time. That was a truly dominant performance.

Gator fans have every right, and SHOULD, to be celebrating wildly today. But please spare us the “No one said we could win, this shows them!” The only place I’ve seen it claimed that UF couldn’t win was by Gator fans complaining about the “haterz” out there. You won, enjoy it you certainly earned.

CONGRATS GATORS!

And the first pick of the Saskatchewan Rough Riders…Troy Smith, QB, Ohio State.

Amazing Gator defense, Percy Harvin is the balls, and Chris Leak cements his place in Gator lore right next to Danny Weurfell.

What a glorious New Year!

Is the Florida mojo so strong it can carry Rex Grossman to a playoff victory? Or is the officially asking too much.

Icidentally if a comment similar to this has already been made advanced apologies. It’s tough work sorting through 200 plus comments…

I received quite a few kicks from the wife for yelling “That’s my lawya Dallas!” throughout the game.

Thanks EDSBS

But seriously – when does Florida play Boise State so we can decide this thing on the field?

dcat