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Florida Beats Ohio State

sports.espn.go.com — The Southeastern Conference shut down the Big Ten tonight in the biggest American college football game of the year.

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  • docdoak, on 10/12/2007, -21/+92Michigan did not belong in this game. Florida showed Ohio State what happens when very few people think they have a good chance.

    For the next 8 months, the SEC has major, major bragging rights over the Big Ten.
    • kutaone, on 10/12/2007, -33/+52Well there's only one undefeated team in the nation..and it's not Florida...
    • docdoak, on 10/12/2007, -25/+96Yeah, it's Boise State!
    • kutaone, on 10/12/2007, -11/+85It will always be tainted until there is a playoff system.

      No one can say Boise State doesn't deserve to be national champs...I think Florida would kill them, but we will never know.
    • macmcrae, on 10/12/2007, -54/+16Bwahahah where are all of the loud mouth osu and michigan retards now? Koolaid drinking LOSERS! OSU shouldn't even be in the top ten. The Big Ten is a joke.Slow overrated wankers.
    • kajoob, on 10/12/2007, -48/+25Congrats to the new 2006 National Champions:

      BOISE STATE
    • docdoak, on 10/12/2007, -32/+14kajoob:

      Wishful thinking, but I do agree Boise State deserves #2!!!

      By the way, Troy Smith did not deserve the Heisman trophy.
    • Buddhist, on 10/12/2007, -26/+16As a huge Seminoles fan, I feel a bit of dissapointment, I was hoping to see OSU pull it out, even though I had picked the Gators to win. I will admit, Troy Smith was just stopped completely. 4 passes for 35 yards and an INT? Jeez. Talk about what happens with a lack of Ted Ginn Jr.
    • dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -33/+24ohio state reminds me of oklahoma a few years ago, overrated conference with 2 good teams, marches through the season and gets ***** by a team that actually plays a real schedule
    • Breakpoint25, on 10/12/2007, -31/+6Wisconsin is the only good BIG TEN team :)
    • lava, on 10/12/2007, -7/+50They should just do a ***** tournament. I would have loved to see USC v Florida (since they both kicked the asses of #1 and #2), but nooooo...

      I'm a Florida fan, but I hate seeing a boring game. OSU was never in it.
    • dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -19/+43@lava

      Yea but USC had two losses to two ***** teams. Get over it dude, USC is just not that good. The PAC-10 is horrible.
    • Lagomorph42, on 10/12/2007, -19/+3Great, now I can't watch the game on Tivo with my suspense still intact.
    • nyyankee13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15ESPN: No BCS plans for playoff system until at least 2010
      http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2724819
    • dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -22/+59"Congrats to the new 2006 National Champions:

      BOISE STATE"

      How many ranked teams did Boise State play in the regular season? Zero
      How many did Florida play? Four.

      When your schedule sucks, you get a low ranking...but wait, for some reason this rule doesn't apply to USC.
    • lukeamotion, on 10/12/2007, -21/+5Hell the entire state of Florida has bragging rights.
      Basketball, Football, Baseba... oh wait that was Ole Miss. Hot Damn!

      HoTtY ToDdY!
    • eklass, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20@Lagomorph42

      the suspense is gone well before halftime
    • ModernTenshi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Anyone saying the lack of Ginn for pretty much the entire game is retarded. In the last half of the season, Ginn did practically *****, rarely completing excellent passes, and the ones he did he was downed pretty quickly. I'm sorry, but OSU has too many other good players to say that Ginn being out was a major cause for our downfall.

      I digg this story with an heavy heart, and a belly full of beer to drown my sorrows.
    • eatmorgnome, on 10/12/2007, -10/+19"For the next 8 months, the SEC has major, major bragging rights over the Big Ten."

      Well, not completely. The conferences played 3 bowl games against each other, and the Big Ten one two of them.
      This was the one which mattered most though.
    • leadingzero, on 10/12/2007, -21/+12S-E-C

      The only team to beat the National Champions - Auburn

      War Eagle, Baby!
    • ballpeenhammer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8USC in inconsistent, but I wouldn't say that they aren't good.

      They hammered Michigan. And if you want to look at a like opponent, check out USC vs Arkansas against what Florida was able to do against Arkansas.
    • Emanji, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28i respect Boise, but come on, FL just blow out OSU, they also beat Georgia, LSU, Tennessee, Arkansas in the regular season. Boise needed 20000 trick plays in the final 5 minute to beat a very VERY overated OU. The same OU team with that weak defends and retarded passing game will get their ***** push in if they play against LSU, Florida, or even Luisville. I respect Boise and think that theyre a great great team, you have an awesome season, but youre no way National Champion. If you want a shot at the title, schedule USC or OSU in the regular season. USC played ND, Arkansas, and Nebraska for the out of conference games, they know that's what it took because their conference is weak. Don't give me that "we beat everyone on our schedule" bull *****, schedule a real team for your out of conference game, then you can say that you can hang with the big boys.
    • orph3us, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3dustyshadow: i take it you don't live on the west coast. USC IS that good and more. And the PAC-10 is very good. Oregon f*cked their season up but they were very good, oregon state which beat USC had an incredible end to their season, washington and washington states had their shots, arizona has a chance to be great in the future. USC would have competed better than Ohio State IMO
    • dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15"dustyshadow: i take it you don't live on the west coast. "

      I lived in San Diego for a few years. I can say that most people on the west coast don't really know much when it comes to football. that's really why they think the PAC-10 is good.

      USC was beat by a team that had 5 losses (UCLA). That's horrible!
    • crimsonl, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3Here is the Boise State Fiesta Bowl Digg.

      What do you think? What does this mean for Boise State and the WAC? Does it mean anything?

      http://www.digg.com/football/Boise_State_the_underdog_and_little_guy_beats_Oklahoma_for_the_Fiesta_bowl


      Great game Florida St
    • acff, on 10/12/2007, -23/+22OSU would have gone 8-4 if they were in the SEC
    • fufubag, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19This is why I have lost interest in college football:

      The BCS is like a game a bunch of 6 year olds made up. The kids are always changing the rules, which are wacky/random in the first place.

      I'll take the NFL, where they settle it on the field.

      Don't blame money. No one can tell me that turning bowl games into part of a tournament wouldn't draw more viewers.

      Bowl games I watched this year: 3 (1 for my team - Huskers!) (1 to see if big 12 could beat boise st.... great game) (1 to see if Big11 (can you guys count?) lived up to hype... of course not....)

      Bowl games I would watch if each one was a tournament game: All of them.....
    • bradb59, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4How did Arkansas fair against the big Ten? And Tennessee? Yeah..ah...

      #1. Good for Chris Leak..all the crap he had to put up with from Gator Nation, and he prevailed!
      #2. If I were an NFL scout...Leak would be MUCH higher on my draft board them Troy Smith
      #3. If this game were played 10 times, I still think Ohio State would win 7-8 of those.
      #4. Where are all the ND bashers...are we going to hear them say that Ohio State did not belong in the BCS, because the scores look....identical??
    • rholloway, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7brad b:

      OSU got stomped by historic proportions and you're still deluded enough to think you'd beat Flarda 8 out of 10 times? Flarda was the first team OSU played all year, period. I don't think they could have won the Big East.
    • TNHitokiri, on 10/12/2007, -14/+7Florida definately outplayed OSU, but remember that OSU had 50 days of doing nothing versus floridas 35 days or so. Also OSU's Teddy Ginn got injured. But this isnt enough to justify the blowout by Florida.

      The thing about college football is the inconsistency of all teams. Florida managed to scrape by South Carolina, but they blew out Ohio St. Personally, I think the SEC is overrated. While Florida and Auburn beat both Ohio St and Nebraska, Tennesee and Arkansas lost to Penn St and Wisconsin.

      College football needs a playoff system, bowl games don't mean anything.

      If any team deserved to be the national champions, it was most definitely Boise St.
    • H3LLSL33T, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3This just goes to show go that Darren McFadden deserved the Heisman...
    • JoeDiggsIt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5All I know is I live in Tallahassee, FL where Florida State is, I also am an FSU fan, surprisingly there's a lot Gators here in Tallahassee, and school is going to be a living hell.
    • mre5765, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The coach of Boise State, Chris Petersen, just said, live, on ESPN/2 that Florida deserves to
      be the national champion. He also thanked his dad for the one first place vote in the AP poll.

      Keep in mind, as flawed as the BCS is, if it wasn't for the BCS, Boise State would never have had
      a shot at Oklahoma in a bowl, and thus this controversy wouldn't exist.

      It is good there is this controversey because it shows interested, and eventually there
      will a financially viable playoff system.

  • biggreensupreme, on 10/12/2007, -13/+53Welcome to the SEC!!
    • MrStabby, on 10/12/2007, -7/+72As a die hard Buckeye fan, I admit that we looked like ***** today...

      We got outplayed, outmatched, outplayed, and outplayed...

      On top of that, we got outplayed...

      SEC speed isn't a myth, the extra month off didn't help matters...but that's not even close to making up for a deficit like that...
    • macmcrae, on 10/12/2007, -24/+26@stabby: OSU was outclassed by a better football team from a much stronger conference. Period. The second best team in the country is from the sec.
    • sorgasm, on 10/12/2007, -8/+15@macmcrae
      "The second best team in the country is from the sec." And that would be whom? Arkansas? I think I recall them losing to Wisconsin.
    • ballpeenhammer, on 10/12/2007, -19/+4Second best team? Who's that...Florida?
    • macmcrae, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6bwahaha bitter losers.
      Judging by osu and michigan's lame performance, vanderbilt comes to mind.
    • samdu, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11LSU. In fact, I think LSU would beat Florida. Being a South Carolina fan, I really didn't want Florida to win this game. Makes it that much harder to recruit against them. But they really did take OSU out behind the wood shed.
    • buckynekkid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19He was probably thinking of #2 being LSU, who raped a good Notre Dame team. Auburn beat both Florida and LSU this year, and I'm an AU fan, but I don't think we would have done as well against Ohio and Notre Dame. The SEC was the top to bottom best this year, and anyone who says otherwise should go to rehab.

      War Eagle
    • YoungDeezy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"He was probably thinking of #2 being LSU, who raped a good Notre Dame team."

      Notre Dame probably had THE weakest schedule in the nation. They got blew out in their big games.
    • Scaphist, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Idiot. Do you ever look at the SoS before you run your stupid mouth?
    • sinurgy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I think this was a bit of a down year in college football in terms of powerhouse teams. Don't get me wrong, it was an awesome year to watch and very entertaining but there just wasn't that "dominating" team that everyone usually fears. That USC of a couple of years ago, the Miami a couple years before that, the Florida State teams at the turn of the century or the Nebraska juggernaut teams of the mid nineties. There just wasn't anyone like that this year.

      OSU seemed vulnerable and Florida just proved they were. However, Auburn proved Florida was vulnerable, LSU proved Auburn was vulnerable, Arkansas proved LSU was vulnerable, USC proved Arkansas was vulnerable, etc. etc. and the only undefeated team played an absolute cake schedule!
    • diggastank, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0@MrStabby

      We?! Did you play?
    • buckynekkid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@sinurgy

      Auburn beat LSU.
    • j37hr0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Auburn "beat" Florida on bad SEC officiating. I'm not an SEC fan, I'm out here in the Mountain West, but you can tell there are certain teams the SEC officials job out since CBS shows SEC games every week.
    • Y2JCrisis, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6I'm so tired of hearing about how great the SEC is. Overrated is what they are. They can't go through a season undefeated and people say its because the conference is so tough...
      Well look at their bowl games:
      Against the big ten, They lost 2/3
      Overrated #9 Auburn barely scraped by unranked Nebraska by a field goal.
      Arkansas, who rolled through every team in the SEC until after the Big 10's season was already over when they lost to LSU, then Florida in the SEC championship got beat by Big 10 #3 Wisconsin.

      And name 1 non-conference regular season away game that the SEC has over any opponent of any significance. The closest is Tennessee's win over Cal at HOME to start the season.
      Say what you want about USC, but they went into Arkansas and handed the hogs a spanking. Say what you want about Michigan, but they went into South Bend and beat Notre Dame.
      You SEC fans like to say how weak the Big East conference is, but they are the only conference to be 5-0 in bowls this year.
    • Gargamike, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Heck yes the Big East is 5-0 in bowl games...what would people say if they lost to the likes of ECU and...what was it? Western Central Michigan? Don't get me wrong though, Louisville and WVU are great teams and I was pulling for them.

      Remember as well that Arkansas and Auburn played about 7 more ranked teams than their opponents. Did you even watch the LSU/Auburn game at the start of the season? They beat the hell out of each other, their biggest game of the year was two weeks into the season, not in January like Wisconsin. Funny as well how Georgia and South Carolina's victories get skipped over, you are talking all big about beating ECU but South Carolina beating a really good conference champion gets forgotten. I don't know what to say about Tennessee, they just like to lose bowl games...it might be a mental thing like with Alabama. These two schools seem to believe it is the divine will of God for them to win the National Championship every year. I talk to Tennessee fans all the time that complain about Phil Fulmer, but they win at least 8 games every season!

      Want to talk about overrated? How about Notre Dame? The only reason they beat a ranked team was because Penn. State got thrown into #24th in the last poll. Other than that they were humiliated by every other ranked team they played.
    • eric0213, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@macmcrae

      I think Florida will have to spend a few more years under Urban Meyer before you can use the term "outclass" with Florida (with Florida being the one doing the outclassing).
    • wicketr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7The SEC doesn't have to go out of conference to play meaningful games. And we definitely don't have to go on the road to play OOC opponents. So your point is an invalid one. UM win over Notre Dame is stupid. Notre Dame is always way overrated, what Top 10 team have they beaten in the last 5 years? They had one win all year that was against the 4th best Big 10 team. Woopty-Freakin-DOO! The reason other conferences go OOC to play good teams is because their own conference blows. The SEC has 6 teams ranked in the Top 25 right now. 3 in the Top 10. OOC or in conference doesn't matter. It's your overall schedule and every SEC team has played at least two top 10 teams. And as far as Arkansas' loss to USC, they were playing at the beginning of the year in a brand new offense with a guy at QB who was a receiver and without the Heisman contending RB in Darren McFadden. That team at the beginning of the year would have finished with a losing record had things stayed the same way. As proof this is the team that barely squeaked by Vandy and Bama at the beginning of the year. 2 teams that finished with sub .500 records.

      I will give the Big East props for going 5-0. However, #16 Rutgers played unranked barely .500 Kansas St. #13 West Virginia played #23 Georgia Tech. #5 Louisville played #15 WAKE FOREST. WAKE FREAKING FOREST! S. Florida played E. Carolina that plays in the worst conference in the nation and they're only the 4th best team in it. And Cincinnati played W. Michigan. 3rd best team in the MAC. HAHA!

      The Big East played the favorite in every single game. And usually by a long shot. You want to compare the Big East I'd like to see UL vs FL, WVU vs LSU, Rutgers vs AU, USF vs UArk, UC vs UT. I'd guarantee the SEC would win 4/5 of those games at least. And as far as the two Big 10 wins over SEC teams, Wisconsin (#3 Big 10) who only had one loss all year was playing Arkansas (SEC #4) who had 3 loses. And PSU (#4 Big 10) was playing UT (#5 SEC)!

      The SEC usually has to be the underdog (as far as conference standings [ie #3 Big 10 vs #4 SEC, #4 Big10 vs #5 SEC, #3 ACC vs #6 SEC]) in every bowl game because there are not enough teams to spread around in matchups against the other conferences best.
    • Y2JCrisis, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3SEC always has a ton of ranked teams because the SEC is always overrated and a lot of the voters are SEC guys. Most of them don't even watch the games.
    • Y2JCrisis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Wickert,

      Where do I start... First, inter-conference play is how you judge conferences against each other. Usually Pac 10 or Big 12 teams cant get through a season undefeated, just like SEC teams can't. That says nothing about their strength of schedule, just that they are all pretty comparable, and are well acquainted enough with each other to know each others strengths and weaknesses.

      Second, forget rankings. They are pretty arbitrary. If Auburn played Wake Forest's schedule and came out with the same record, they'd be ranked #3 or something ridiculous like that. Big East Champion Louisville played ACC Champion Wake Forest. It was a great game if you took the time to watch it. Big East #2 West Virginia played ACC #2 Georgia Tech (who was pretty good this year). Also a good game with comparably matched team. Georgia Tech was by no means outmatched, nor was Wake Forest. Cinci vs. Western Michigan wasn't bad. Actually, MAC champion (and Western Michigan rival) Central Michigan's coach during the regular season is Cinci's new coach, and coached the bowl game.

      Also, sure SEC has a lot of teams that go to bowl games... that's because the GOOD teams in other conferences don't allow all of the teams in the whole damn conference to go to bowls because they all have enough wins over each other. It seems like the SEC has damn near ten 7 win teams every year because none of them are good enough to actually consistently win. How are you going to have that many Big 10 teams go to bowls when there are only 11 teams, and 3 of them were good enough to come out with 0 or 1 loss and Penn State who better than the rest of the big ten where it could beat all of them pretty solidly, but not against the three big teams afore mentioned. The big 10 has 9 conference games, and if you take away four losses for everyone else, that leaves 5 games for each of the other teams to scrap it out over. In the SEC they all lose 2 games to each other so there is plenty of rooms for 7 win teams. Especially when Florida is scheduling pansy non-conference games, and MSU is scheduling Notre Dame and PITT, and Purdue is scheduling Notre Dame and Hawaii for its non-conference games. (Hawaii is WAC, but take a look at their team this year. They're pretty damn good), and Illinois is playing Rutgers, and Iowa is scheduling Texas, and Ohio State is scheduling Texas, and Minnesota is playing CAL.

      The only non-conference games that the SEC played that were of any signifcance were Tennessee vs. Cal, and Arkansas vs. USC. That's it. So they all share mediocre records in a larger conference and damn near everyone gets to go to a bowl game. Big damn deal. In my mind, 4 loss Penn State from the Big Ten beat 3 loss Tennessee from the SEC. And the SEC west champion played Big 10 #3 and got spanked.

      And lets look at the SEC's bowl record from the last few years. Last year they went 3-3. The year before they went 3-3. The year before that they went a very above average (for them) 5-2, but the year before that they went 3-4. Yeah look at the complete and utter DOMINANCE over other conferences.
  • gh0st121der, on 10/12/2007, -55/+4The game isnt over yet you *****. I know they will win but ***** posting this early.

    Innacurate.
    • docdoak, on 10/12/2007, -34/+5How can a person be a "*****" ??
    • kutaone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28You are in denial...this game is over!
    • kyoung989, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14@docdoak

      I think I was a ***** last Wednesday, and you know what? It's not that bad...
  • CrashProof, on 10/12/2007, -30/+2Note the time. This was posted 30 minutes before the game was officially over.
    • MrStabby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Note the score. This was posted 30 minutes after the game WAS officially over...
    • docdoak, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5CrashProof: If Ohio State would have come back in the final eight minutes, you might have a point to argue...but they didn't do a thing...
    • CrashProof, on 10/12/2007, -24/+5It was posted when the score was 34-14. A 20 point deficit does not make the game even close to over.

      You would have probably left this game as well.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comeback_(American_football)

      Man law. Don't leave games early, don't post early wins on digg. Man law.
    • docdoak, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Wonderful...but what was the outcome?
    • CrashProof, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Ever heard of "Dewey Wins". Man you are thick.
    • sabarsky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@ CrashProof

      You've been watching too many beer commercials.
    • ehurstmvp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Speaking of commercials, is anyone else completely sick and tired of that dodge commercial with the rockem sockem robots? I'm pretty sure that can go down as the commercial I have seen the most times in my lifetime
    • fufubag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Ehusrtmvp,


      ....this is ourrrrrr countryyyyy.....
    • anachronaut, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Funny that you mention that, because I was bemoaning that damn Rock'Em Sock'Em commercial's existence tonight (and during previous games). I don't recall seeing it after the halftime break tonight, but all through the playoffs they've been relentlessly driving that one particular commercial into the ground, with at least one showing per commercial break (and there are a lot of breaks during college games, and moreso in the playoffs). Jeez, did their advertising agency go on a long vacation or what? Minus ten points for spamming.

      Oh yeah, and the Big 10 is always overrated. 'Nuff said.
  • Rosco, on 10/12/2007, -28/+17Hey Buckeye's, bet you wish you played Michigan now don't you? Bitches, Eat it!
    You voted to play USC and UCLA took care of that, then you voted to play Florida,
    and you got exactly what you wanted.
    • miketwo1s, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Actually Tressel refused to vote in the final coaches poll, which is the only week that votes are published anymore...so both your statements are completely false.
    • n00bst3r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Actually, there was no official vote by any Buckeye to decide who played for the national championship.
    • gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5Florida played the best they possibly could. OSU played the worst they possibly could. Had OSU played liked they did in every other game this past season, Florida would have been sucking hind tit.
    • LordOfTheSponge, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9gaoshan - face Oh St got their ass whooped by a better team.

      If you they play ten time in a row Fl wins 8 of them. It was like watching mighty ND get stomped by LSU.

      To everyone who says the SEC is overrated. I don't think so!
  • Hutch863, on 10/12/2007, -10/+9Nowhere near as exciting as last years championship, but still a great game!
    • docdoak, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23Yeah, last year with Texas vs. USC was amazing, but it was great to see an underdog KILL the favorite this year.
    • LarianLeQuella, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I'd have to say it was a horrible game. With FL dominating like they were, only the frst play was worthy of a good game, after that it was nearly a forgone conclusion as to who the winner was going to be...
  • feeser, on 10/12/2007, -17/+15this makes me really happy... when Ohio came to Austin their fans were the biggest bunch of pricks
    • docdoak, on 10/12/2007, -17/+15Yeah, what's with all of the male Ohio State fans being slightly fat, white, and with facial hair, jersey and cap? They all look the same.
    • kutaone, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13That's funny coming from a Texas fan...
    • docdoak, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5You mean Alabama fan...and I live in Tennessee :)
    • dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20"Yeah, what's with all of the male Ohio State fans being slightly fat, white, and with facial hair, jersey and cap? They all look the same."

      It's called the midwest.
    • RealityCheque, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Have you ever actually been to the Midwest, or are you just attempting to be funny?
    • dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I live in Ohio for school :(
    • gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3LMAO... a hick from Tennessee trying to make fun of an Ohioan?! That is hilarious!

      This next bit is done in Hickbonics... a manner of speaking that is commonly used in Tennessee... "Ya'll hill billies oughta git sum learnin' in ya 'fore ya open yer toothless mouth 'an try 'an speak."
    • rholloway, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@gaos...whatever

      Ohio shares an airport with Kentucky. You ever seen some of the people flying out of Ohio into New York? Go to Google Images, type "rube", and you'll see.

      Ohio blows.
  • bSimms, on 10/12/2007, -7/+36I would just like to point out that 41-14 backwards is 41-14 still.

    That is all.
    • n00bst3r, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Yea the game went exactly like the sugar bowl, except this time the underdogs won.
    • arraz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4how long did it take you to come up with that one
    • JesusIsSatan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1a palindrome.
  • killinger777, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5Troy Smith was kissing Chris Leak's neck after the game. Get a room!
  • TheToecutter, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3We need more Digg topics posted on this. Get to work people!!! /sarcasm
    • docdoak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This WAS the first...
    • TheToecutter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I know, that's why I dugg this one and am burying all the others. I swear people ignore the warnings of a duplicate news item.
  • lemenhir, on 10/12/2007, -25/+12Congratulations SEC! I hope you're satisfied. Now that it's over, maybe your schools can start investing in your academic programs and avoid being put to shame by every other Division I-A school in the country.
    • feeser, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20haha speaking of which, did you or anyone else see the UF commercial where everyone was saying "Go Gators...Go start a Fortune 500 company...Go cure cancer...Go Gators" to one another? I wanted to hear someone say "Go ***** yourself"
    • coldphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Actually after seeing that commercial, I instantly thought SNL skit written all over it. "Go to hell!"
    • Jwzupancic, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22Speaking of which, according to great god Wikipedia.."Florida ranked second among all institutions in the number of National Merit Scholar students enrolled, behind Harvard."
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida

      So you're excuse fails. Good day.
    • Niten, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Yeah, too bad UF doesn't have a nationally ranked college of engineering or anything like that. Or the second highest number of National Merit scholars of any institution. Yeah, that would really be nice.

      Edit: Yeah, what Jwzupanicic said

      (And for the record, it's become a common meme at UF to mock one of the actors in the original version of that advertisement, a man with a particularly effeminate rendition of "Go Gators...")
    • lemenhir, on 10/12/2007, -15/+6Oh, wait. You forgot the rest of the Wikipedia article. It goes on:

      "Researchers at the University of Florida are responsible for numerous discoveries. The most commercially popular invention has been the sports drink Gatorade. "

      That's it. ROTFL
    • canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9lemenhir- don't hate just because your community college gave you a worthless degree and didn't have any good sports teams either. do some ***** homework and learn a bit about just how tough it is to get into uf these days and exactly what kind of work our grads/profs produce. there's a reason florida is consistently ranked one of the highest public univerisites in the country, and it ain't the gainesville green : -)

      http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php - 47th overall and 17th in public schools for 2007, asshat

      let me guess, seminole?
    • mmortal03, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You do know that Florida's football team had a high graduation rate than Ohio State's football team this year, right?
  • feeser, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21it was supreme satisfaction for me to see Troy Smith sacked so many times
    • NeilieN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22I am a big SEC fan and glad to see the game's result, but Troy Smith is a great player and a stand up guy. I hate to see him end his college career like this.
    • feeser, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9it's true enough that he's a talented athlete, but I was just so tired of hearing him compared to VY. Smith couldn't pull it off like Vince did when Texas came from behind.

      I'm probably biased because I'm a Texas student, but it got old fast hearing everyone talk about how Smith is better than Vince was.
    • MrStabby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9In all fairness, I never once heard a comparison of Troy to Vince...maybe in character, but not as a player...

      And I live and breathe SC and ESPN in general...
    • feeser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I heard it all the time here in Austin, but probably just because the city still has an ear for anything "Vince". His Titans jersey is apparently the top selling NFL jersey in Austin, which says a lot for a state with two NFL teams...
  • quami16, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27I can only imagine the ass that Tim Tebow is gonna pull these next few weekends. Lucky.
  • Satertek, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13SEC!
    • gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Well... winning 1 game out of 3 versus the Big 10 doesn't exactly make the SEC into much of anything. Florida has bragging rights but the SEC in general was bitch slapped by the Big 10.
    • buckynekkid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I hardly consider 17-14 (Wisc/Ark) and 20-10 (Penn/Tenn) "bitch slapped". The SEC was 6-3 overall, and that includes a national title. The reality is the Big Ten's best couldn't beat the SEC's best (or probably their #2 LSU either).
  • canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -20/+14it's great. to be. a florida gator. i said....
    • canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -20/+13bury me all you want, ***** fans. we're still the champs!!!!!

      final four + bcs = year of the gators! (oh, and we got the underwater robotics title too for you non sports lovers)

      it's great. to be. a florida gator. i said.....
    • gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6"bury me all you want, ***** fans. we're still the champs!!!!!"

      Ahhh there is some of that true Florida Gator spirit. So gracious in victory.
      You wonder why everybody hates the Gators? Because 90% of the fans are like you.
    • canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4thanks for the morning comedy gaoshan. you're all over this board bashing uf, the city of gainesville, and the state of florida. what's the matter? feeling a bit depressed about getting your ass handed to you on national tv? jealous much?

      waaaaahhhhhhh! waaaaaahhhhhh!
    • camix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4it's great. to be. a florida gator. i said....
  • disposition0010, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10Correction, Florida owned Ohio State.
  • AuntJemyma, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5SEC teams in BCS games: 82 points
    ND and Ohio State: 28 points
    • gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4SEC got their butts kicked in 2/3 of their games against the Big 10... don't leave that part out.
  • 5m0k3, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16NATIONAL CHAMPIONS BABY!! "The first 16 seconds of the BCS title game? All Ohio State. The rest of Monday night? All Florida"

    reigning champs in basketball and football! pure domination in the athletic department
  • RyGonWan, on 10/12/2007, -19/+10As a Buckeye myself I am embarrassed, but I see a lot of ridiculous posts up above here. You saw a great football team play like crap and a good football team playing with something to prove. Sometimes that's what happens in championships.
    • kajoob, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17Dude, this wasn't a squeaker. Florida ANNIHILATED the Buckeyes. Deal with it.
    • macmcrae, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Denial ain't just a river in egypt. Did you even watch the game? OSU was dominated by a much stronger faster team.
    • kutaone, on 10/12/2007, -13/+8yeah that's what happens when you take 51 days off...
    • RyGonWan, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Asking if I even caught the game is a good example of a ridiculous post.
    • uttles, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5See this is what I hate about the big slow ten. Your slow ass team full of inferior athletes went out there and got their asses handed to them by a far better team, and you say a "great" team just played bad and a "good" team won the game. What a crock of *****. I wish the big slow ten would just fall off the face of the earth. The SEC is the best football conference in the country year in and year out, so suck it.
    • ehurstmvp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7@ uttles

      Penn State, Wisconson. thank you, that is all
  • kkaabboomm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+28Florida vs. OSU: 41-14
    LSU vs. ND: 41-14

    coincidence? or just SEC DOMINATION???
    • macmcrae, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16bwahahah - the big ten fanboys are victims of some tremendous media hype. It is a sham that the sec gets so little respect. If there was an ncaa playoff - the top four teams would be from the sec. Digg me down losers.
    • dfsiii, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4ND != Big Ten (so reply to different parent with that statement, kthx)
    • uttles, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6ND=Big Ten without that pesky conference affiliation, so they get to keep all their TV and Bowl money.

      When is the big slow ten (plus one) going to grow some balls and force Notre Dame to join? F notre dame and F the big slow ten.
    • fufubag, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6macmcrae,

      "It is a sham that the sec gets so little respect"

      This is a joke right? The S.E.C. is almost always called the best conference. I do agree though, that the BIG11 is waaaayyyy over-hyped.
    • gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3The Big 10 owned the SEC throughout the BCS. The one, single victory over the Big 10 was Florida. Every other matchup between the two conferences ended with the SEC getting completely raped. Florida may be good but the rest of ya'll may as well start playing touch football. Deal with it rednecks.
    • greepoman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4The Big Ten owned the SEC???? Two wins, by not a very large margin over inconsistent SEC teams (Arkansas was still close with an absolutely horrible quarterback). FL and LSU blew out their opponents in bowl games...and no SEC team got beaten very badly. Can you say the same for the Big Ten?? Their supposed best 2 teams got handled.
    • naiku, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Arkansans vs Wisconsin. i wouldn't call that "rape" They stopped Darren McFadden who lead Arkansans all year, so they had to resort to a crappy pass offense.
      penn state beat a over rated Tennessee.
      Florida Beat Ohio State.

      Sure Big10 did beat the SEC teams, 2-1 but Florida IS the national champions. They embarrassed Ohio State. UF completely dominated that game.


      Please don't try and tell me Michigan(#2 BigTen) who lost to OSU and USC is better then LSU w/ JaMarcus Russell.

      #1 UF
      #2 USC
      #3 LSU
    • junkyblake, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Wisc beat ark and penn beat tenn, but if you shifted ND out of the equation and lined up team for team LSU would destroy Wisc, and Ark would smoke Penn.

      SEC is a much more dominant conference, period.

      I'm a tiger fan and it felt weird, but I was doing the chomp all game last night...SEC doesn't belong in championship? Michigan does? Bwahahahahahahahaha....a real national championship would be a rematch of LSu and Florida....
  • killinger777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25 dollars to the first person to link to the mp3 of the "time to say goodbye" mp3 they played during the credits.
  • Hutch863, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0^^^^Oh, looks like you beat me to the comment, thanks for the title killinger :D

    Does anyone know the name of the song they played at the end of the game, in the highlights of all the bowl games and the credits? It was some lady and a man signing something that sounded like Italian.

  • cashewhead, on 10/12/2007, -17/+3boise state > oregon state > USC > arkansas > florida > ohio state. (> = beat)

    In both the AP and Coaches Polls, everyone cast their first place vote for Ohio State - and they were ALL WRONG. Based on that result alone, you cannot assume at all that Florida was the first OR second best team. Boise State overcame every challenge this season - both Florida and Ohio State failed. Boise State also proved their superiority by defeating teams that defeated the so-called "championship contenders". No one beat Boise State, period.
    • derlavai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Im an Arkansas fan but Florida did beat us. So teh AR>FL doesnt really go here.
    • ousthouse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Arkansas didn't beat Florida (Auburn did).
    • derlavai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0and AR beat Auburn. What a circle.
    • darkspire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I attend a WAC school, and frankly while Boise State is a good school, with a good football team, their schedule is incredibly weak. They won their bowl game, barely, and with a lot of trick plays. Yes they still won, but there is no evidence that they would have stood a chance against either Ohio State or Florida or even LSU. Now, the WAC was better this year, Nevada nearly pulled off the win against Miami, but that was a very weak Miami team. I think everyone's said it enough though, Boise won't get any respect until they play a tougher schedule.
    • dak1486, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Boise State was fun to watch, but let's be honest with ourselves here - they played nobody. They would have been raped by either of the teams that played today.
    • buckynekkid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8If Auburn, being in the SEC, can go undefeated and still get snubbed come championship time due to "weak schedule", then honestly what chance do you think some WAC team has of EVER being in the BCS championship?
    • hartley, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1@bucky

      Auburn wasn't undefeated... they lost to Arkansas.

      Also the Florida Auburn lost was one of Floridas best games. Did any of you watch it??? You cant tell me there weren't any crappy calls against the Gators.
      Not to mention playing Auburn in Auburn after a lost would be the hardest game for any team. *Auburn was #2 before they lost to Arkansas.*
    • publius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@hartley

      He was talking about the 2004 season where Auburn played their tough SEC schedule, went 13-0, and still didn't get a shot at the National Championship.
    • r00ts, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"I attend a WAC school, and frankly while Boise State is a good school, with a good football team, their schedule is incredibly weak. They won their bowl game, barely, and with a lot of trick plays. Yes they still won, but there is no evidence that they would have stood a chance against either Ohio State or Florida or even LSU. Now, the WAC was better this year, Nevada nearly pulled off the win against Miami, but that was a very weak Miami team. I think everyone's said it enough though, Boise won't get any respect until they play a tougher schedule."

      Did you even watch the game? Boise completely DOMINATED the Sooners until they made a couple of (understandable) rookie mistakes and then still managed to take the game. In my book, "barely won" and "nearly lost" hold two completely different meanings.
  • GoldenEagle7, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1051 days off really hurt OSU. Congrats to Florida though.
    • macmcrae, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I think what really hurt osu was some rabid media hype and the fact that florida is a much better team.
    • fufubag, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2There's no crying in football.
    • xigxag, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Why does everyone keep saying that? I mean I simply don't understand the reasoning here at all.
    • xigxag, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I mean what's worse:

      having more time to rest and recover from injuries
      or
      playing an extra game against the other top team from your conference, with the chance of injuring key players or losing a conference championship game that the Big 11 doesn't believe in
    • hartley, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@ zigzag

      its a changed quote from A League of Their Own. Tom Hanks says "Theres no crying in baseball!" One if not the best quote from the movie.
  • Carnitine, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11Troy Smith: -1 total yards

    35 passing, -36 rushing.

    2 turnovers to boot.

    The Heisman voters decided long ago that it was between Smith and Brady Quinn, and both of them sucked in their bowl games. Give it to Colt Brennan or John Beck or somebody who knows how to play in a big game.
    • macmcrae, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Shows what a joke that trophy really is. OSU shouldn't even be close to the title game. And smith is no where near the best player in the country.
    • H3LLSL33T, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Heisman should have went to Darren McFadden.
    • MothBoy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0A player who knows how to play in a big game like Dwayne Jarrett?

      2007 Rose Bowl (Michigan): 11 catches for 204, 2 TDs
      2006 Rose Bowl (Texas): 10 catches for 121, 1 TD
      2005 Orange Bowl(Oklahoma): 5 catches for 115, 1 TD

      Three major bowls, Two for championships, 440 yds and 4 TDs

      Not too shabby.
  • simmonsdd, on 10/12/2007, -21/+1Any of the top 3 Big East teams would still beat either of them.
    • Eliminator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Maybe not, but I would like to see a Rutgers or a Louieville vs UF.
  • martynda, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20For those attacking UF academics... they are consistently ranked as one of the top public schools in the nation and are ranked the #1 school in value for money. Stop being 12 year old kids and give credit where it's due.
    • JesusIsSatan, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3Party school. Female grads become porn actresses making all those interracial gangbang movies.
    • gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Other names for U of F:
      The Harvard of Gainesville
      Redneck Rutgers
      University of Fun!

      - If you have a car containing a Gator wide receiver, a Gator linebacker, and a Gator defensive back, who is driving the car?
      The cop.

      - What's the best thing to come out of Gainesville? I-75

      - What did the UF graduate say to the OSU graduate?
      "For $5 more I'll swallow."

      - What do an OSU student and a UF student have in common?
      They were both accepted to UF.
    • canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4gaoshan-
      http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php

      looks like we beat osu there too. it hurts to lose doesn't it?

      and for the record, you have your felons/florida schools confused. you're throwing us in w/ miami and fsu, check the police records first next time. we don't recruit felons. speaking of which, what's maurice clarrett up to these days?
  • bstew22, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Did you notice at Half time how the OSU marching band played Titanic? How ironic. LOL!
    • feeser, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0haha, yeah I noticed that too. oh the irony...
    • hartley, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5yeah, my gf asked why were they playing titanic. i said because OSU is going down.

      *i know its not funny*
  • lukeamotion, on 10/12/2007, -13/+8Goes to show an SEC team with one loss can whoop that ass of a non-SEC UNDEFEATED team!

    SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC
    Hotty Toddy
    Luke
  • kref1, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8Go Gators
  • mt066, on 10/12/2007, -21/+2Oooooh can't bury this one, can you nerds??? Sorry the cheerleader wouldn't date you....Sports on digg!!!
  • LordDshyzL, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13OSU vs SEC teams they are 0-8, they have never beaten an sec team, who is the better conference
    • nd_miller, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5Way to go SEC - you are now 1 and 2 against the Big Ten in this bowl season.

      And hey, how was the post game shower orgy led by Tebow and Meyer?

      P.S. Darren McFadden and that Wildcat formation were baffling, just ask Wisco.
    • uttles, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6Hahaha, nice crap stat there douchebag. The big slow ten is over hyped, period. When the #1 team in the SEC plays the #1 team in the big 10 (11), it's going to be an SEC blowout every time.
    • greepoman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4nd_miller, let's compared how the top 2 SEC teams (FL & LSU) did in bowl games against your top 2 (OSU and Mich) in their bowl games...hmmm looks like SEC blew out 2 while yours got blown out. Also, it's not like arkansas did badly....they lost by 3 to a higher ranked team.
  • sissipher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35PLAYOFFS PLEASE
  • derlavai, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2SEC bitches! Props to Florida for the win but we all know the Boise State worked the hardest this year. Boise State wouldnt have stood a chance against Florida but they did great against teams that were higher ranked. They really should have let Michigan play Ohio for the conference champs. OSU winning at home didnt prove much, they need a rematch on neutral turf.
    • AuntJemyma, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1I agree with this comment in ways you'll never know.
  • sicheah, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I thought OSU could (and I was really REALLY hoping) make a huge comeback after the second half but it's truly disappointing. Their best just ain't good enough to beat the Gators. Anyway the Gators deserve the medal.
  • sicc, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1Uh, am I the only one in the world who doesn't give a ***** about sports? It's certainly seems that way sometimes.
    =x
  • imalteapot, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I hate Boise St. I'm a TCU fan. But tonight proved one thing. The controversy over number one and number two wasn't between who should play OSU, it was who should have played Boise St...
  • extremophile, on 10/12/2007, -12/+0football is a homosocial fertility envy ritual. how?

    the unfertilized "egg" is mock-ovulated by the center who is "mounted" by the quaterback in a symbolic act of copulation. the egg is then thrown, or ejaculated, to a "tight end" or maybe a "loose end" and "carried to term" into the end zone for the touchdown. this represents the fertilized egg attaching to the womb, mother earth, in general. the "baby" is then birthed by flying through the goalposts, which essentially represent the vaginal wall, and the cycle of life is completed.

    American men really go for this kind of thing.
  • cornerback42, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5No playoff for a reason Three words: Jim + Delany + Money

    http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=jo-delany010507&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

    Intriguing
  • wingnut21, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Well, at least we beat Michigan. =(

    (Goddamnit OSU, wake up and play next time.)
  • Brandondork, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I'm a Michigan fan, so I digg
    • ehurstmvp, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Sorry fellow Michigan fan , you wont get your jollies here, we may hate OSU, but in this thread its all big ten bashing
  • boisee, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1How many top 10 teams did Boise State beat. . . ONE-OKLAHOMA.
    Also beat USC's nemesis Oregon State, and Hawaii, Utah, and ever other team that they played!!!
    13-0 is 13-0.
    America's underdog. America's champion!
  • earthtoandy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5unbelievable
  • lkeg56demn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Was I the only one that found this game to be, well, really boring?
  • flg8r, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3It's great to be a Florida Gator!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebuen/344551032/
    • canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1i said, it's great, to be, a florida gator!
  • triplec76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm as big a fan of OSU as anyone else and this was just a pure embarrassment of what this team had to offer. It looked to me like there weren't too many adjustments being made for this Florida defense absolutely raping the OSU line and Troy Smith. You can't complete a 20 yard pass when the receivers can't make it 10 yards before you are eating turf. It looked like 4 quarters that were exactly the same. So if you want my summary: Outcoached.
  • bigp3rm, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4Boise State Broncos should be number one.
    • uttles, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7No they shouldn't. Oklahoma backed their way into a BCS game through a conference tie in. BSU had a great year, but they didn't play anyone worth a *****, not even in their bowl.
    • Satertek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yea they're were great, but the only ranked teams they played were Oregon St. and Oklahoma so they got the shaft.

      There's really no way to know how far they could have gone without a playoff system.
  • zioxide, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Good for Florida, everyone was saying OSU was going to kick their asses and they sure proved everyone wrong.

    Congrats.
    • JesusIsSatan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I was actually rooting against Florida because of the coach whining the last few weeks about deserving to play #1 OSU. So I was hoping he'd eat his words but I guess he was right all along. Complete domination.
  • walnoj, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9SEC proves dominance - again. Suck it, rest of NCAA.
  • Brss45, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1I'm an OSU fan, and I'll admit that we did play poorly.

    Troy Smith has been playing worse and worse. It seems like every game he's making more mistakes. Clearly OSU has proven that they are a great, hard working team, but tonight they just seemed to give up, like they didn't want it. Florida did want that win. They just wanted it more. Statistically speaking, OSU should have won. Florida played like a football team at a real game, specifically a season-ender, while OSU gave up barely into the second quarter and never came back.

    (Besides, most OSU fans have been getting a bit big-headed, so an occasional loss to put the fear of God into them is always nice. I've had my share of annoyance from those kinds of fans.)
    • JesusIsSatan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Did you see the offensive stats for OSU? Record-breakers for worst in bowl history. 4-for-14 for the Heisman phony winner?
    • FlaG8r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think he's talking about the season stats, but he's not taking into account that OSU ran up their stats against a weak schedule while Florida was playing a top-20 defense almost every week.
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