Posted on 01/08/2009 11:15:31 AM PST by GOP_Raider
We've reached the final game of the college football season. I know that we've had some arguments regarding who really should be the national champion (and due to my own bias I've tried to stay away from it). But anyway, somebody decided #'s 1 and 2 for this game a long time ago and here they are.
The BCS National Championship Game: Florida vs. Oklahoma (8:00 pm, FOX) The last two Heisman trophy winners take to the turf for the waterford crystal shaped football from Sears (or at least it used to be from Sears). Leading up to this game, we've heard about who really should be the top ranked team and I'll say this. One, possibly both of these two teams can end any argument tonight. We know the offensive playmakers by now. Tim Tebow. Sam Bradford. Jermaine Gresham. Lewis Murphy. Juaquin Iglesias. But will the defenses even matter tonight?
Always nice to have your Bowl game on your home field. Wish other teams had the same advantage.
Let’s crown the Utes AP Champions and then schedule them a road trip to the LA Coliseum one of these years. It’s a fun trip, win or lose.
You’re right about one thing - the current SC defense has not met the current OU offense. I do recall that the last time the two teams met on the field, it was in Miami in January 2005, and the final score on the board was 55-19. Most of the fans in the stands were wearing Sooner red, and most of those folks wandered out of the stadium by halftime. Stoops is breathing a big sigh of relief that he is not facing the Trojans tonight - that way, at least he has a fighting chance not to lose by 36 points.
I’m gonna be bowling tonight (they have TVs at the bowling alley), but I’ll miss posting in your game thread. Still pulling for Oklahoma, but the team hasn’t done well last couple of bowl games.
Seriously though, who schedules the National Championship on a Thursday?
Thanks for your great work putting up these threads throughout the college football season. You’ve gone above and beyond. We’ll now look forward to tonight’s game and then next season.
Sounds great (it'd bring back memories of the Raider games my uncle took me to as a kid), although you'd have to make the return trip to Salt Lake, like UCLA and Oregon State have in the past few years. :)
Thanks I really appreciate it.
-PJ
well crud, the flyover was early (and they didn’t even show it!) and that rendition of the National Anthem nearly made my ears bleed...
WE will be hollering
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It’s only appropriate that much of this thread involves a discussion of USC, because for yet another year, the bowls have been played, teams have shown who is who, and USC again looks to be the best team in the country. For the 4th time in the past six years, USC finishes the season with the same one loss that the BCS title participants had, and doesn’t play in the game because the propaganda war is won by other conferences.
Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
But no credible response, as usual.
Beats me, but my best guess on that would have to be that Thursday is traditionally the "big" night for television and if the BCS is about anything it's about money and television ratings.
-PJ
It’s about as credible a line as the same regurgitated bs you just spewed out. The body of USC’s work stands out for the season. USC always gets up for a bowl game, they should concentrate on getting up for the Oregon States and Stanford’s of the world. Say what you will OU only lost to the number three ranked team and destroyed everybody else they faced, Florida lost very early in the year and went through a schedule that included 8 bowl teams and beat the number one ranked team in the CCG.
I have searched, and triple checked Yahoo, our usual online streaming with “OH!MY!” Mick, but cannot find it : o Is the audio being broadcast tonight?
GO GATORS!!
BAMM!!
I love George!!
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