I think the BCS people got it right for the second year in a row. The two most deserving college football teams, Florida and Ohio State, will be playing against each other in the BCS Championship Game in Glendale, Arizona on January 8.
Florida and Ohio State is an exciting match-up and big names abound. Florida and Ohio State bring you the projected Heisman winner in quarterback Troy Smith and the electrifying wide-receiver Teddy Ginn while Florida brings senior quarterback Chris Leak and wide-receiver Dallas Baker “The Touchdown Maker”. And those defenses too!
This is the match-up America wants to see.
Michigan fans who feel slighted in being overtaken by the Gators can take solace in this fact. They get a darn good consolation prize, the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena against the University of Southern California. They can also feel fortunate they will be playing the Trojans and not LSU a team who I’ve heard described as the best ten-and-two college football team in the history of college football. The match-up is not good for LSU fans that pre-purchased 42,000 Rose Bowl tickets. Tiger’s players and fans can send a hearty one-finger-salute to UCLA for screwing up their holiday road trip to Pasadena. LSU will now have to take out its frustration on Notre Dame who they will see in the Sugar Bowl on New Years Day.
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Orange Bowl officials must be banging their heads against the wall in getting Wake Forest as the automatic entry from the ACC. The Demon Deacons won it on the football field and are deserving of the BCS bid but bowl games are also about economy and it’s doubtful the Deacs will bring many fans that will spend five dollars or buy the t-shirt. I would venture to guess the Orange Bowl folks were pulling hard for a Rutgers-Georgia Tech match-up. Especially since half of South Florida is from New Jersey and would have been an easy day’s drive from Atlanta. A Rutgers entry would have guaranteed a full stadium. Interstate 95 would have been bumper to bumper with scarlet flags flapping from Hackensack to South Beach.
The Louisville Cardinals will bring an exciting football team to the Orange Bowl that will be sporting a high-octane offense led by junior quarterback Brian Brohm. The Demon Deacons, who hitched a ride with their defense all the way to Miami will be tested early and often by the high flying Cardinals.
Fiesta Bowl tickets are already becoming scarce around Boise. The Bronco’s will bring in excess the 17,000 guaranteed rear ends to help fill their seat allotment. The Oklahoma Sooners will see and hear plenty of the Orange and Blue clad Bronco fanatics around town. Don’t laugh Oklahoma… Boise State has a pretty good football team too. Boise State now has a little less than a month to prepare for AP. In Sooner country that stands for All-America running back Adrian Peterson who will certainly be 100% healed from a collar-bone injury way back in early October that caused him to miss seven games.
