CHAMPIONS.
Overwhelmed with emotion–simply overwhelmed. 41 out of 50 AP sportswriters can go choke themselves with a Twizzler right now. After five minutes, this game was out of reach. It’s not that Florida was merely good–they were flawless and magnificent like anyone who’s ever appeared on The Actor’s Studio with James Lipton. Chris Leak played a magnificent game-no Evil Chris, lurking in the shadows in the third quarter. No blocked punt, a la Auburn. No improbable decisions.
(Chris…we’re so sorry. We’re so, so sorry.)
And it’s not that Ohio State was bad–they were pathetic. Odious. Null. Reeking. Inert. They had no answer, no adjustments, no nothing. Alex Boone and Kirk Barton spent all night reaching backwards into the void where Derrick Harvey and Jarvis Moss should have been, and instead turning over to look at Troy Smith, eyes wide as dinner plates, turning away from one 270 lb. man attempting to kill him to find another 270 lb. beast running at him with 4.7 speed. His line becomes a paragraph unto itself:
Troy Smith: 4-14, 35 yards. 0 TDs, 1 INT. Sacks: 5
Heisman! UF outplayed them in every single facet of the game. No Ted Ginn excuses, no blown calls, nothing. Florida kicked ass until their toes fell off. It was like watching a small animal get crushed between two glaciers. It was like watching Roy Jones in his prime boxing an Olsen twin. It was like watching Clarence Darrow squaring off against Starr Jones in the courtroom. It was defeat, served rare, with a side of raw loss.
And for us: scoreboard, bitches. Scoreboard. We. Win.
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tOSU is Number 2 allright, a piece of crap.
Comment by Harvey Wireman — January 9, 2007 @ 2:57 am
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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.
Comment by Oh Please — January 9, 2007 @ 2:54 am
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By record, OSU is obviously 2nd. By logic, Try 5th.
Comment by RB — January 9, 2007 @ 2:50 am
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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
Comment by dcat — January 9, 2007 @ 2:44 am
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Wow. Not a unanimous #1 in AP. Boise got one first place vote. Tool.
Comment by Ed — January 9, 2007 @ 2:39 am
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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.
Comment by Harvey Wireman — January 9, 2007 @ 2:36 am
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haha…yeah this year proves a “plus 1″ would be pathetically insufficient for college football. congrats again guys.
Comment by Tommy O — January 9, 2007 @ 2:35 am
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#34 - 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?
Comment by Oh Please — January 9, 2007 @ 2:26 am
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YOWWWW……..mmm pizza
Comment by Gator KK — January 9, 2007 @ 2:24 am
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Regis looks more like a woman than Rosie, by the way.
Comment by Harvey Wireman — January 9, 2007 @ 2:22 am
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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.
Comment by Harvey Wireman — January 9, 2007 @ 2:21 am
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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.
Comment by RB — January 9, 2007 @ 2:17 am
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Congrats, guys. Please spare enough brain cells from liquor - WOOOOOOOOOO LIQUOR - to keep blogging.
Comment by Phil K. — January 9, 2007 @ 2:15 am
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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!
Comment by Celeste — January 9, 2007 @ 2:15 am
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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…
Comment by Exhausted yet happily buzzed CliffX — January 9, 2007 @ 2:13 am
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And congrats to all the Gators fans out here is EDSBSland.
Comment by Anon8 — January 9, 2007 @ 2:06 am
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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.
Comment by Anon8 — January 9, 2007 @ 2:05 am
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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
Comment by dogtown gator — January 9, 2007 @ 2:00 am
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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.
Comment by RB — January 9, 2007 @ 1:55 am
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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.
Comment by Tom @ thepalestra.com — January 9, 2007 @ 1:46 am
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OK, assuming a plus-one playoff, who plays the Gators now? USC or LSU? Or BSU? Or someone else?
Comment by Ed — January 9, 2007 @ 1:46 am
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Are you going to do something, Ohio State….
or are you just going to stand there…
and bleed?
Comment by Ltrain — January 9, 2007 @ 1:45 am
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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
Comment by dcat — January 9, 2007 @ 1:44 am
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Congratulations to the Gators!
Nice to see that the Big 10 zone defense works like a charm in bowl games. (Ahem).
Comment by DC Trojan — January 9, 2007 @ 1:44 am
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Number 1 was definetely held
Comment by Learned Hand — January 9, 2007 @ 1:44 am