Championship Thoughts
Two congratulations to hand out, first to the Florida Gators for winning the BCS National Championship. My second congrats go out to my friend John Radcliff of the Mountainlair, he won his second In The Bleachers Bowl Bonanza title in three years edging out Tell Burke by one point. I will be in contact with all of those who won prizes.
A little bit of a sloppy game last night but that I expected when the teams have around a month off between their conference title games and the BCS title game. Both Tebow and Bradford had two interceptions, but Bradford's came at a very bad time at the end of the second quarter. Add to that the mistake Bob Stoops made not going for the field goal in the first quarter and there's the 10 points Oklahoma needed to tie the game. If you want to get even more into it, the blocked FG would've won the Sooners the game.
As I said in the Podcast, Florida's edge on Special Teams was going to be the big factor in this game, and it turned out to be. It was great to see a championship game live up to the hype. The game was still in doubt heading into the latter parts of the 4th quarter. Mr. Electric, Percy Harvin broke off a few long runs for the Gators and set them up for the winning score. I feel that's the last we'll see Harvin in a college setting.
The next questions surround the fact of how good was the Big 12. We heard all season how they were better than the SEC and have surpassed them in the conference rankings. All the Big 12 supports pointed to having 3 teams in the Top 10 with Oklahoma, Texas, and Texas Tech. Bowl season comes around and Oklahoma and Texas score the least points they did all year against their opponents, and Texas Tech puts up only 1 point more than their previous season low against Ole Miss.
The other Big 12 South team Oklahoma State has 42 points put on them by Oregon. I think my assumption was right all along, the Big 12 was full of above average offenses, but below average defenses. Overall the Big 12 won 4 bowl games against Clemson, Northwestern, Minnesota, and Ohio State.
Only the Ohio State one is impressive, and even then, Texas was suppose to wipe them off the field. But they needed a late TD to win that game. Missouri needed overtime to beat Northwestern, and the Nebraska-Clemson game was very close. Anyway, I was glad to see a competitive championship game and am sad to see a close to the 2008-09 season. We only have a little more than 8 months till the 2009-10 season kicks off. One final note, I was glad to see the AP Writers, who were all clamoring for Utah, come together in unity to put their votes where their mouths are...wimps!
