BCS Title: Florida 24, Oklahoma 14 (Final)

[EidoloN]

hasn't Oklahoma lost the last 5 BCS games they've played?

When are going to start bashing them

It may start now, if not, I will continue to!

 

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[EngineerHorn]

Some thoughts:
- The Sooners are the Buffalo Bills of college ball.
- What craptacular announcers. Ignoring the Tebow stuff, they lost track of downs, called a guy whose knee was destroyed 'questionable', and did a piss poor job of explaining how the defenses were reigning in the offenses.
- Oklahoma holds rather blatantly.
- Officiating was typical awful ACC officiating. I'd have rather had the Big East or Big 10 provide the refs.
- The synchronized way Oklahoma's players would look to the sideline and back reminded me of a flock of birds.
- There were some pretty good hits in this game
- If Urban Meyer leaves for Notre Dame, we're in good hands with Charlie Strong. If not, someone else is, hopefully not in the SEC.
- Major Wright is the Florida player whose performance most sticks out in my mind. Some of those hits were positively brutal.

Oklahoma holds as much as Tech. The Big 12 didn't call it all year, and Tech and OU took the most advantage. It is systemic and they are coached to hold. Phil Loadholt (Phil hold-hold) is the worst offender and rarely gets called. His tackling of Brian Orakpo during the RRS was well documented.

Further, I wish Stoops' nickname of "Big game Bob" would go away. 2-5 in BCS games, 2 of them blowouts and one against Boise. Further, I would think that calling OU the Bills of college football, while a good analogy, is an insult to those Buffalo teams. At least Buffalo removed all doubt that they deserved to represent their conference. tOSU's BCS woes have nothing on OU's.

Bob Stoops is going to have menstrual cramps for a while and that's hilarious. That guy is always on his period- bitching, whining, being manipulative, acting smug, and never giving credit to anybody. Tim Tebow never hit him in his left ovary with an errant pass like I'd hoped, but seeing him all exasperated and almost driven to tears was a nice consolation prize.

Thank you Florida. OU sucks. There is justice in the world.

 

[Joe56]

The game itself was good, if sloppy. Coach Stoops makes Tress look like a big game genius. The time it took to get the plays in was absurd compared to some of their earlier games.Not kicking the FG at the end of the half was also questionable.

Secondly,I've heard better announcing at tee ball games. They could have been talking about AIDS on the Moon, and one of them would have found a way to relate it back to Tebow's ability to cure Aids and his greatness.

Thirdly, maybe I'm over sensitive, but it sure seems like Fox and certain writers like Stu Mandel took every opportunity to throw us under the bus, or show a clip from the 06 game, or generally belittle TOSU.

My congrats to Tebow and Florida, it's hard to play ball whilst getting your balls tickled by the media at every turn.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

+22 and +24....holy hell. Incredible.

Wasn't tOSU up in that range in '06?

Assuming this was about turnover margin....

OSU in 2006 was +14 going into the UM game and finished +9.

This season was OSU's best under Tressel, finishing +16.

that was THE BEST facemask I have ever seen. I don't root on or encourage dangerous plays, but there's no downside to bringing a guy down on a first down play just short of the goalline to prevent a TD.

Incredibly smart, although dangerous.

Not only was it a legit facemask, it was a TD saving facemask on the 1 yard line.

Again, not safe, but there's little downside to doing it if it saves a TD and doesn't give up a first down.

OSU had a similar play back in the Fiesta Bowl versus Kansas State. I don't remember which linebacker it was(Reynolds maybe?), but he basically had the helmet turned sideways on the guy, but he didn't make it into the end zone.

Curious how Stoops will be viewed vs Tressel.. Losing several big games in the national spotlight. Bet Tress still gets shafted.

If Stoops ran a conservative offense, they'd probably be viewed the same.

Right on. Nothing like embarrassing other teams so that you get more credit.

- The synchronized way Oklahoma's players would look to the sideline and back reminded me of a flock of birds.

I think of meerkats when I see it.

Awesome. I wonder if she's related to this guy....

 

[Dryden]

OU earned that loss. That game was 100% on Stoops and the staff. They were clearly outcoached, between being overly aggressive and eschewing the sure-3s to go for some ill-advised 7s to inexplicably NOT running the hurry-up more often.

They were gashing UF every bit as bad as UT was ripping us in the Fiesta, but OU would do it for two plays then go back to that shit of looking over to the sidelines twice and running off 35 seconds, and invariably would wind up getting stuffed on the next play. Stoopid, Stoopid coaching.

It was once said of Bear Bryant that "he could take his'n and beat yours'n, and then take yours'n and beat his'n." At this point I think Urban Meyer belongs in that category. Say what you will about his personality, but he gets the proverbial 110% out of every player, and is quick to cast off anyone that would offer up any less. He puts his teams in a position to win 90-95% of the time, and he utilizes his most talented players in ways that make the entire team appear to be more talented and explosive than it actually is. He's Bill Parcels.

 

[shetuck]

It was once said of Bear Bryant that "he could take his'n and beat yours'n, and then take yours'n and beat his'n." At this point I think Urban Meyer belongs in that category. Say what you will about his personality, but he gets the proverbial 110% out of every player, and is quick to cast off anyone that would offer up any less. He puts his teams in a position to win 90-95% of the time, and he utilizes his most talented players in ways that make the entire team appear to be more talented and explosive than it actually is. He's Bill Parcels.

I was thinking the same thing this morning given how well Urban's team played yesterday with nagging injuries to key players at key points in the game. They didn't miss a beat. They kept rollin'... maybe that has more to do with Tebow being the leader out there, but even a leader starts to sputter when you take out his key guys on key plays. That's called resilience. And that's what Urban Meyer and his team showed yesterday. And that's not something that's going to go away with Tim Tebow.

 

[BigWoof31]

And that's not something that's going to go away with Tim Tebow.

Welcome to my world :(

 

[NFBuck]

WOW. It doesnt make you proud to see an Ohio State grad doing so well? I think its an awesome thing for our university as a whole. Anytime this university can put out great players or coaches we should eat it up, even if it isnt our team.

Urban Meyer is a smug jackass. I don't care if he got his Master's from tOSU or DeVry, a jerkoff is a jerkoff.

- The synchronized way Oklahoma's players would look to the sideline and back reminded me of a flock of birds.

hasn't Oklahoma lost the last 5 BCS games they've played?

When are going to start bashing them

When they join the Big-10.

One more thing: I wonder what Thom Brennaman's wife thinks of him outing himself to a national audience?

 

[redbenn]

i was waiting all night to hear the SEC, SEC, SEC chants... but didn't hear em... that makes me sad

 

[CookyPuss]

They were gashing UF every bit as bad as UT was ripping us in the Fiesta, but OU would do it for two plays then go back to that shit of looking over to the sidelines twice and running off 35 seconds, and invariably would wind up getting stuffed on the next play. Stoopid, Stoopid coaching.

There was one play in the 3rd quarter when I really noticed this. It was either a 3rd or 4th and 2 or 3 to go. I knew they were going to run because Bradford kept looking over at the sideline like he couldn't believe the call. Sure enough... stuffed for a loss.

 

[sandgk]

i was waiting all night to hear the SEC, SEC, SEC chants... but didn't hear em... that makes me sad

That is what happens when UF fans can't buy a vowel.

 

[PatMicMac]

Yeah usually I like Thom Brennaman as a broadcaster and I thought he did a decent job for the first 3 quarters of the game ... but that last quarter was just awful. I can only take so much Teblowing and that was about 500x more than I could handle.

 

[buckeyes_rock]

Yeah usually I like Thom Brennaman as a broadcaster and I thought he did a decent job for the first 3 quarters of the game ... but that last quarter was just awful. I can only take so much Teblowing and that was about 500x more than I could handle.

Yes. According to the announcers, that taunting unsportsmanlike penalty on Tebow was the first thing he'd done wrong in his whole life.

We get it already, he's a good kid. But dang...Bradford had just won the heisman and they seemed to struggle to come up with good things about Sam. What the heck will they talk about when Timmy and Harvin are gone?

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Just so you all know, I am a much better person just for having the privilege of watching Tebow play last night.