I soooo wanted Tebow to have his John 3:16 eye thingies knocked off his face. But then seeing Sam Bradford’s looking over at the sidelines for plays like a fucking 7th grade B teamer made me want the game to end in a humiliating-for both-teams tie.
I hate college football; I’m used to watching pro, and it’s frustrating to see all those slow-developing plays that would’ve been shut down for a loss making big gains, and I could go the rest of my life with out hearing those shitty sounding marching band drums for 3 hours straight.
It was hard to say who was worse, the ACC refs or the announcers. I’m going to give the edge to the announcers who seemed to babble on about everything except the actual play, even though I can turn off the announcers and I can’t turn off the game.
I thought the actual game was tense and exciting, although that was colored by having a rooting interest.
ETA: An Arky, Tebow usually has Phillipians 4:18 (or something like that there). I was disappointed when he went with the cliched John 3:16. We notice someone else had I (heart) U on one cheek but never saw the other cheek.
It was killing me! I mean, WTF did you have the huddle for if you are gonna look at the sidelines afterward and do an audible every time??? Why do audibles every time is such noise? Call the play you want and grow a pair and run it!!!
I don’t think Tebow will be a flameout in the pro game.
Oklahoma should have won the game. They allowed themselves to be beaten by failing to score any points at all on two massive drives late in the second quarter; the one that ended with the blown-up 4th and 2 run, and the one that ended with the rather incredible interception. Florida must have gone into half-time thinking they were lucky as hell, and didn’t exactly look that gift horse in the mouth!
Utah could have beaten Oklahoma. Utah v Florida would have been a VERY interesting game…
What is it with Oklahoma and the Big 10 champs in major BCS bowl games? Perhaps those two should get relegated to a special bowl to keep them out of the title game? I swear, one of these years, we’ll get USC vs the SEC champs.
I thought Utah had a shot at the AP poll if the UF-OU game was sloppy. Well, we got that sloppy game, but it didn’t help Utah as much as I had hoped.
What were your thoughts on the hit that the Oklahoma receiver took down the sideline on one of the first plays in the game?
Did anyone not from Florida have a problem with the Oklahoma defense yanking and hitting players when they were on the ground, after the whistle had blown? Or the horse caller tackle that took Rainey out of the game? Or the numerous blown calls, missed holding, weird stoppages and restarts?
Well being from Florida (if only a VERY part-time Gator fan) I’m not sure this was aimed at me, but yes, the officiating was horrendous. However, as a ACC team fan, I’m used to that, so it didn’t bother me as much as it probably should have.
I didn’t say it that way at all. However, that vaunted Florida defense didn’t stop either march down the field to the goal line, and the interception was damn lucky. The play on 4th and 2 was very well done by Florida, which opinion might have been obvious by my statement that they blew the OU play up.
Regardless, if Oklahoma had finished off those drives, as they should have (you march down a field at will against a team twice, you SHOULD have 10 points in your back pocket!), then the game’s complexion would be entirely different, Florida having to come from behind, rather than coming out at the start of the 3d quarter tied for the lead.
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One of the great joys of being at Georgia Tech was being a part of the whole football/basketball mania thing. Nothing quite like 80,000 skinny, scrawny white kids, most likely engineers, most likely nerds or frat boys, screaming on 8 foot tall, totally ripped, and black “nutrition majors.” When a basketball/football player walked around campus, it showed - they always looked like they were just about to rip the head off a nerd and floss with their spine.
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Interestingly enough, though, Florida has a decent (not great) graduation rate, in the top half of schools and well above their conference average. They do have a fairly high SAT requirement for regular students as there is a lot of competition to go to the school, but are lax when it comes to football player requirements.
From this link, which I found in another thread here in the Game Room.
Also, FWIW, Florida’s graduation rate is 68%, Oklahoma’s is 46%.
As anyone in education can tell you, graduation rates are meaningless statistics. They can simply demonstrate that people who are in danger of not graduating get special treatment designed to ensure that that piece of paper ends up in their possession.
I’m not saying it’s true of Univ. of Florida, but they could inflate the rate of graduation simply by offering a course of study for their “student athletes” that is significantly easier to accomplish than that which the “student athletes” at Oklahoma University have to accomplish for a degree.
Underwater basket weaving, etc.
We have a lot of rain and a lot of palm fronds down here. Underwater basket weaving is an important skill locally.
Seriously, it might or might not indicate that. SAT scores are not entirely indicative of how people will fare in college or life, nor are IQ tests, but we still use them. Graduation rates are also affected by things like people just deciding to leave school, transfer, etc. They’re generally looking at four year graduation rates, and at these big time sports schools there are a lot of athletes that take at least five years to graduate. I’m sure some never do. A better indicator of whether college football helped them or just used them would be a study, five or ten years out, at what’s going on in their life. I don’t know that anyone has ever done that.
FYI, Tebow has already said he’ll be back in Gainesville next year. Brandon Spikes and Percy Harvin are the two big question marks. I’d guess both stand a better chance of going to the draft then coming back. Of the two, the Gators would miss Harvin more. He’s another incredible talent that will be hard to fit in an exact role at the NFL level.
It will be interesting to see if they can get back to the BCS championship game.
