Florida fluke
By Tim Yu

After watching a more than lack luster BCS National Championship game between The Florida Gators and The Oklahoma Sooners (Florida won), this past Thursday, I asked myself (as many of you might have) if the BCS really got the right teams in the national Championship.

This national Championship was supposed to be a shoot out and a very high scoring game. Both teams had high powered offenses and two of the top three quarter backs in the nation, Sam Bradford of Oklahoma and Tim Tebow of Florida, both of them have won a Heisman trophy. Oklahoma averaged more than 50 points a game during the season, and Florida averaged about 45 points a game. However, this game was a snoozer, with a disappointing score of 24-14.

The BCS or Bowl Championship Series uses a very long and complicated equation to figure out the top teams in college. The problem with this is many teams feel like they should be in the championship game and rightfully so but get left out. For example, on week 7 of the season Texas beat Oklahoma 45-35 and they both ended up with 12-1 records. Guess what? Texas didn’t make National Championship and Oklahoma did.

Florida isn’t off the hook either. Florida had only one loss to Ole Miss which had a regular season record of 8-4. The USC Trojans also only had one loss to Oregon State, which also had an 8-4 record. Florida ended up ranked second in the nation after the regular season, and USC ended up ranked fifth.

Even the Utah Utes have a pretty good argument for why they should have been in the national championship. The Utes were the only undefeated team this year; however, they were in the Mountain West conference which is pretty weak. They probably would not have been undefeated if they were in The SEC, Big-12, Pac-10, or even the Big-10 (not bashing the big ten).
This game had the makings to be a very good game, but it wasn’t. It was pretty much one sided, and the quarterbacks didn’t play up to par.

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