Championship Game

[JoshStratton]

Good luck tonight, Florida fans. It should be a real good game.

Go Bucks!

<note> With all these football posts, I am starting to think we need a 'Sports' section under The Outhouse

[rockdogz]

GO BUCKS

[Camaro_Kyle]

I agree Josh, a sports section would be sweet! And just to go against the grain a bit, Go Gators!!!

[rocketrod]

Unfortuantely I will miss the game , since our cable provider, Mediacom, is having a contract dispute with Sinclair , content provider, and we know longer get the channel...

[rockdogz]

Unfortuantely I will miss the game , since our cable provider, Mediacom, is having a contract dispute with Sinclair , content provider, and we know longer get the channel...

You won't get FOX?

[BA.]

WOW!!!!!

We are getting our ASSES handed to us!!!

[rockdogz]

wow

[parsonsj]

So ...

Are you Big 10 guys convinced yet? The supposed 2 best teams ... Ohio State and Michigan. Not.

Florida doesn't deserve to be in the game. Wrong.

Ohio State will roll all over the Gators. Sorry, try again.

Who said "they only write one name on the trophy?"

I realize I'm gloating right now, but damn, some of you Big 10 guys were hard to take. I will say this: Ohio State was hurt by the absence of Ted Ginn, Jr. That hurt them a lot. I saw my worst nightmare coming true on the opening kickoff, but it seems he actually got hurt during the celebration in the end zone. That's a bad break, and it affected the game significantly.

But it became more and more obvious during the game that OSU had no answer for the speed and toughness of the Florida front 7. Derrick Harvey, Jarvis Moss, Ray McDonald, Brandon Siler, and Earl Everett are special players. Ohio State only gained 89 yards! Reggie Nelson (All American safety) didn't make a single tackle. And what the hell was Tressel thinking when he went for it on his own 29 yard line! Big mistake on so many levels. It only led directly to 3 points, but it sent a message that he was already desperate to his players. Bad move, bad coaching.

Anyway, it was a game for the ages for Gators everywhere. I won't be sleeping for awhile ...

jp

[parsonsj]

Good luck tonight, Florida fans.

I missed this 'til now, but I did wish a couple of Buckeyes I work with the same earlier.

You Buckeyes have 5 national titles? We Gators only have 2, so we've got a ways to go. The future looks bright with Meyer though.

It was a tough loss, especially with Ginn going out early and never returning.

jp

[Mkelcy]

I will say this: Ohio State was hurt by the absence of Ted Ginn, Jr. That hurt them a lot.

Not so much, really, as T. Smith never had time to go long.

[LowBuckX]

Well Ohio still won in a way. Gators had to go to the back woods of Ashtabula Ohio to find a winning coach and a Cinci player to make a nice score.

Ashtabula and Mentor are not realy that far away either. Tressel is OG from Mentor Ohio.

[rocketrod]

You won't get FOX?

Correct...

[ProdigyCustoms]

Oh Man that was SWEET!

[JoshStratton]

That was a great game. Florida took Ohio State out of the game early and they never recovered. They are clearly the better team....that D-line is SICK.

Ironically, they were my preseason pick to win it all, so I don't feel nearly as bad

Congrats Gators. It was a WELL earned victory.

[Steve68]

Been sing it since I was in elementry school,

"It's great to be a Florida Gator, It's great to be a Florida Gator, It's great to be a Florida Gator,!!!!

Had the chance to go to school there and passed it up, stupid me! been to a ton of games!!

Great game as JP said saw my worst nightmare on the opening drive, but the Gators were tight!!!

[jy211]

hahaha. Talk about a team NOT SHOWING UP....84 yards of total offense???Heisman winner? Looked like another Eric Crouch....


Congrats to the Gators!!

[OLDFLM]

The first 16 seconds was great!

I'll eat my humble pie now... )c:]

[parsonsj]

They are clearly the better team....that D-line is SICK.

The matchup of Florida's defensive ends vs OSU's tackles was the real key to the game. Moss and Harvey were unblockable. OSU's tackles looked slow and unathletic. I don't know if that's because they weren't ready to play or if it's because the Gator ends were that much stronger and faster.

One guy who should be beside himself is Marcus Thomas. He is the most talented of all of Florida's defensive linemen, but was kicked off the team in October for "rules violations". Too bad for him, he missed out on a lifetime event.

jp

[JoshStratton]

Double Post

[JoshStratton]

The matchup of Florida's defensive ends vs OSU's tackles was the real key to the game. Moss and Harvey were unblockable. OSU's tackles looked slow and unathletic. I don't know if that's because they weren't ready to play or if it's because the Gator ends were that much stronger and faster.

OSU really isn't that bad. I think the combination of the layoff and Ginn being hurt really deflated them. His being out really disrupted the flow of the game and allowed Florida to put a lot of pressure Troy. I tend to agree with Lee Corso when he said that if they played 10 times, Florida would win 3. I absolutely believe that OSU wouldn't have won that game last night, but with Ginn, it wouldn't have been a blow-out.

Last night they were clearly the better team and absolutely dominated OSU on both sides of the ball. The defense got their heads together in the 2nd half. Unfortunately for OSU, Troy Smith and Co. couldn't do the same.

You should see campus today. It looks like someone imploded the stadium. It's so quite and somber. You would think a nuke was let off in the city. I actually heard (and this is why I don't like most OSU fans) a woman call in to the radio this morning and say:

"Troy Smith threw that game. He wanted the Buckeyes to lose and I never want to hear his name again."

There will be a lot of people calling for Tressels job. Pathetic.