All Hail the Crimson Tide

OK, this is late in being posted but I still need to say it.  Congratulations to the Alabama Crimson Tide on winning the 2013 NCAA Football Championship. 

If you watched the game you know it was no contest.  Had it been a prize fight it would have been stopped in the second quarter.  The Tide totally dominated Notre Dame in the 41-14 win.  My thought at the end of the game was Notre Dame was about the same level as Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.  The Irish would have been beaten by LSU and Texas A&M.  If Notre Dame played Alabama 20 times Alabama would win each time and they would all be mis-matches.  The Tide are just that good.

Congratulations to the SEC on winning it's 9th BCS championship in 15 years.  The next closest conference in BCS wins is the Big 12 with a whopping two victories.

I Would Go Broke

Good thing I don't pick college football games for a living.  Yesterday I was critical of the University of Louisville football team and compared them to Northern Illinois.  Man, was that a mistake.

Louisville dominated Florida last night in the Sugar Bowl and upset the SEC power 33-23.  In looking back I should have been more careful.  The Gators had been feckless on offense against lesser teams for the past four weeks of the season.  One of those games was against my beloved Mizzou Tigers.  Missouri had a chance to tie the game on the final play of that game 14-14, only to have a pass sail just over the head of an open receiver.

So, to all of the Louisville Cardinals fans I may have offended, my congratulations to you and your team on a nice win and a good season.

And CBS is No Better

While I wait for the Mizzou basketball game (see the post below), I am also aggravated with CBS TV's continuing usage of inane sound effects in their football coverage. I have the Alabama-Florida game turned on but the sound is muted. Every replay or graphic is accompanied by these obnoxious sounds. Wake up CBS, I haven't heard anyone yet who says they enjoy the noise you insist upon inflicting on your viewers.

Gators Win...Longhorns Get Their Due

Congratulations to the Florida Gators and Tim Tebow on an impressive win over the Oklahoma Sooners in the BCS Championship game 24-14. The Gators put up 480 yards against the OU defense and never trailed in the contest played in suburban Miami.

The win gives the Gators their second national championship in three years. As you would expect it left Florida on top of the final polls of the 2008 season. In the AP writers poll undefeated Utah finished second following it's win over Alabama a week ago. The Utes picked up a quarter of the votes for number one in the poll of writers. (In my opinion the writers poll carries more credibility than the USA Today poll of coaches. For starters how many coaches can watch games while their team is playing and secondly because the coaches are doing the voting it is more political than the writers poll).

Finishing third was USC ending the season with one loss. The Trojans beat up on Penn State New Year's Day. Fourth; the Texas Longhorns and in the five spot the losers last night, Oklahoma.

I guess there is justice in college football because Texas had beaten Oklahoma during the regular season and ended the season with just one loss. Oklahoma ended the season with two losses. Longhorn fans believed their team had been snubbed when OU got the BCS championship game bid over Texas. Texas had beaten the Sooners in mid October in the Red River Valley game 45-35.

And my beloved Mizzou Tigers, who finished 10-4 came in at number 20. It wasn't what I expected in early September but it's still the second consecutive year the Tigers finished in the top 20 teams in the nation.