So how 'bout dem Gators!
I would imagine that there a lot of people walking around Vegas this morning without their shirts. Not many people, even where I live DEEP in the heart of Gator country (Gainesville is only about 100 miles from Jax), thought Florida could do what they did last night. They didn't just beat Ohio State, they took them to the woodshed and striped their asses. They put a whuppin' on the Buckeyes and nobody seems to have seen it coming.
Mark & Mike, y'all are too young to remember this, but all month I have been thinking that the buildup to this game was remniscent of the 1984 Orange Bowl when the (then) little-known and unheralded Miami Hurricanes went up against the mighty Nebraska Cornhuskers for the National Championship. The 'Canes weren't supposed to be much more than a speedbump for the Huskers who had been crushing their opponents all year. Everyone expected Nebraska to blow Miami away like lint, but . . . somebody forgot to tell that to Bernie Kosar because it didn't work out that way. Now, no one's going to say that Florida was an unknown quantity being that they won a National Championship 11 years ago. I just want to put out there that, like the Hurricanes of the early 1980s, we could be seeing the start of a new and pretty long-lasting dynasty. Remember, this team that came out and flattened the vaunted Buckeyes was certainly talented but it wasn't larded with nearly as many marqee players like Ohio State. However, man for man, Florida showed that they were simply the better team. I think that's due to the talent pool down here in Florida.
Urban Meyer also coached rings around Ohio State's Jim Tressel, too. My God, when Tressel went for that 4th down on his own 35 yard line in the first half, and didn't make it . . . . All my hopeful talk of a Gators dynasty though assumes that Meyer will be able to resist the siren song of the NFL when they come a-calling, something not many college coaches can do.
If nothing else, this pretty conclusively shows the superiority of the SEC to other conferences, especially the Big 12. I doubt Texas, A&M or Oklahoma could have even gone .500 against the likes of Florida, Auburn, LSU, Georgia and Tennessee this year. Speaking of A&M, I am officially off their bandwagon. Watching them get their asses handed to them by California did the trick for me. It's too bad that they didn't hire Meyer instead of Francione.
Mark & Mike, y'all are too young to remember this, but all month I have been thinking that the buildup to this game was remniscent of the 1984 Orange Bowl when the (then) little-known and unheralded Miami Hurricanes went up against the mighty Nebraska Cornhuskers for the National Championship. The 'Canes weren't supposed to be much more than a speedbump for the Huskers who had been crushing their opponents all year. Everyone expected Nebraska to blow Miami away like lint, but . . . somebody forgot to tell that to Bernie Kosar because it didn't work out that way. Now, no one's going to say that Florida was an unknown quantity being that they won a National Championship 11 years ago. I just want to put out there that, like the Hurricanes of the early 1980s, we could be seeing the start of a new and pretty long-lasting dynasty. Remember, this team that came out and flattened the vaunted Buckeyes was certainly talented but it wasn't larded with nearly as many marqee players like Ohio State. However, man for man, Florida showed that they were simply the better team. I think that's due to the talent pool down here in Florida.
Urban Meyer also coached rings around Ohio State's Jim Tressel, too. My God, when Tressel went for that 4th down on his own 35 yard line in the first half, and didn't make it . . . . All my hopeful talk of a Gators dynasty though assumes that Meyer will be able to resist the siren song of the NFL when they come a-calling, something not many college coaches can do.
If nothing else, this pretty conclusively shows the superiority of the SEC to other conferences, especially the Big 12. I doubt Texas, A&M or Oklahoma could have even gone .500 against the likes of Florida, Auburn, LSU, Georgia and Tennessee this year. Speaking of A&M, I am officially off their bandwagon. Watching them get their asses handed to them by California did the trick for me. It's too bad that they didn't hire Meyer instead of Francione.
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