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.

Way To Go Longhorns

As a fan of Mizzou, it is sometimes hard to root for the Texas Longhorns especially after the whooping they gave the Tigers in October. But, I am happy for Texas and it's fans in their come from behind win over an Ohio State team that played over it's head in last night's Fiesta Bowl.

With the win the Longhorns run the Big XII's record in bowl games to four and two. (All three North Division teams, including Mizzou, won their bowl games). While Ohio State played well in Phoenix, it left the Little Eleven conference (OK, OK...Big 10) with a bowl record of 1-5. Once again the Little Eleven has failed to live up to the media hype. Last night the cream rose to the top.

...and Beaten Up by the Longhorns

It wasn't much fun Saturday night to watch the Tigers get their butts kicked by a powerful Texas Longhorn football team. There's no need to revisit the score. I just hope that the country didn't tune out before the second half, because Mizzou's offense finally got un-tracked. Still Texas was by far the better team and their foot speed stopped the Missouri spread offense just as it did the Oklahoma offense.

Oh well, I guess I wont be going to a BCS game in January.

Whooped by the Cowboys

I've written at length about my beloved Missouri Tigers. And you would be correct to say I have done my share of bragging on them. Well last night, they got beaten a better team. Oklahoma State came into Columbia as a double digit underdog and stuffed Mizzou's high power offense 28-23. The Cowboys forced three Chase Daniel interceptions in the second half and allowed the Tigers to convert only two of nine third downs all evening. With the loss the Tigers fall to 5-1 and number 11 in the AP poll.

Oklahoma State is very good and may be good enough to win the Big XII conference. I hope the Tigers can win the North division and play the Cowboys again the first weekend of December.

The Tigers now prepare for the newly #1 ranked Texas Longhorns this Saturday in Austin. Texas got there by knocking off the former number one Oklahoma Sooners in the "Red River Rivalry" game yesterday afternoon 45-35.