Week 14 College Football: Holy Tebow! A Civil War for the Rose Bowl?

And though it was a slim possibility, there was the chance that Florida could have won last year and not made the championship game. It was 98 percent a certainty that Florida would make the title game, but not 100 percent.

This year, that's not the case. The winner WILL go to the BCS title game.

 

Fine. There's a 2 percent difference. Ya got me!

 

Humphrey's record is 1,471. Ingram's at 1,429 now. If he breaks it this week (or in the bowl game), he'll have done it in more games. Humphrey rushed for 159 yards in the 1986 Sun Bowl (which would have actually given him 1,630 for the season), but bowl stats didn't count then.

 

Ohio State was favored by at least a touchdown in that game with Florida, if I'm not mistaken. Knowing what we know now, that would never be the case, but I don't think there were many people calling that a guaranteed L for tOSU going in.

 

how did Si come up with 1,399?

 

Because the issue was published before the Auburn game, in which Ingram had only 30 yards rushing.

 

Number of days between probation periods at Alabama?

 

There was a Florida-Florida State game in the Spurrier era that was pretty huge, if it wasn't 1 v. 2, it was 1 v. 3.

 

I'd love to see Alabama beat Florida and Nebraska shock Texas to really throw a wrench in the works.

 

Wasn't that the national title game?

 

I can't imagine how anyone can think Ohio State-Michigan a couple years back is bigger than Florida-Bama.

The SEC is by far college football's best conference. The Big 10 has been down for quite some time and the only time it's produced a national title has been when it was split (Michigan in 1997) or when Ohio State got the benefit of that call against Miami.

Two teams coming out of the SEC unbeaten is unheard of. If you add that to Florida being the defending champion, playing with one of the best college football players ever against Alabama, which likely has this year's Heisman winner, arguably the two best coaches in the game and probably two of the most passionate fan bases in the game, I'd take this game over that one in a fucking heartbeat.

 

If that happens, I would not be stunned to see a Bama-Florida rematch in the title game. I don't think TCU would jump over Florida with one loss. I think they would jump over Bama with one loss, but I think if Bama wins a close game and Texas loses, we would see Bama-Florida again.

And yes, that would fuck everything up, which would be fantastic.