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 You might have expected to see a final score of 65-62 in last night’s BCS National Championship game, but what you got was a 24-14 Florida victory in a good, old-school football game. It was a battle of field position and fighting for whatever yards you could manage. For all the talk we hear day in and day out about the system, I can say as a writer and someone who takes sports as a job that this is the way it’s supposed to be.
Tim Tebow probably solidified himself as one of the greatest college football players ever. No question that this guy’s accomplishments will always be remembered, but was he the most important aspect of the game last night? I believe Florida won on the play of their running game and a dominant defense that held the Sooners to 14 points.
Remember that Oklahoma had scored over 60 points in its previous five games leading up to last night’s skirmish. Give Florida all the credit in the world. Between Tebow, Percy Harvin, and Jeffrey  Demps, the Gators rushed for 249 yards as a team. Over the course of the season, Oklahoma’s run defense only gave up roughly 95 rushing yards per game, before Florida had a track meet against them.
As for Florida’s defense, you can tip your hat to them with the way they played. They had two second-quarter goal line stands that really changed the momentum. Florida put the game away in the fourth with a huge interception that destroyed the Oklahoma offense from there out. Coach Urban Meyer has to be more than pleased with what his defense did out there. I know I didn’t expect to see them hold that Sooners offense to such a low score. Everything last night seemed to be on Florida’s side.
Tebow, who as their leader and spokesman was the man who made the Gators tick, did all he could last night. It wasn’t his greatest performance but it was still great enough. Tebow, along with using his legs to rush for 109, yards also threw the ball for 230 yards and two touchdowns. He was again magnificent. He made it clear weeks ago that Florida would never lose again for the rest of the season, and that this would all be on his shoulders. Well, those mighty big shoulders carried a load and a half. So many questions with this young man arise every time you hear his name. Can he play on Sundays? Is he the greatest college football player ever? What can’t he do? In reality, we don’t have all those answers, but we do know he’s a pretty damn good football player—tough as nails, as smooth as silk, and willing to take his troops into battle on any surface.
Sure, some people will still say Oklahoma shouldn’t have been there because of the loss to Texas or that USC would have beaten both of these schools if given the opportunity. But we won’t ever know, eh, sports fans? We can talk all we want about the BCS system, and I am all for it. However, when you really sit down and see a game like this, you realize maybe they got it right after all by picking the two best schools to represent college football’s main stage. Though the curtains have closed, you can exit stage left until we start all over in 2009.
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