This BCS Champ has all the makings of 1995 all over again for OU, except OU is UF in 1995. That year we came in with a high flying offense crowing about 6 45+ point games and routinely beating rivals by 4 touchdowns. We were unstoppable, never mind our defense was suspect, we tagged 60 a few times on some folks and that was ok by us. We swaggered into that game cocky and full of ourselves against a balanced team like Nebraska. We thought, heck our QB Wuerfell can sling it around the field at will. Well the famous line I hear all the time still to this day is ..”Hey can you hear that Tommy Frazier just scored again”. Defense means everyhting and poo-pooing it you do at your own peril. Wuerfell got hounded all day by the Blackshirts and we ran Troy Smith around like a scared rabbit 2 years ago. Keys to winning a championship are solid line play, running game, capable secondary, special teams and depth. I think we got OU on 3 of those 1 I will concede to OU and 1 is a push. Being the contrarian I like the game close like 24-17 going into the forth and the Gators big game experience, depth and conditioning do what they have done 11 times this year..wear them down. Gators win in a walk 45-24.
I agree. We proved in the SEC Championship game, that if we can’t win with speed and finesse, that we can win by playing smash mouth football.
I don’t think the OU-UF game will be nearly as high scoring as people expect, the winner probably doesn’t get into the 40s. UF will definately be the best defense OU has faced, and OU, probably next to Bama and Ole Miss, will be the best defense UF has faced.