So It All Comes Down To This

In August 119 schools kicked off the 2008 college football season. 

Tonight, in what would have been a home game for your University of Miami Hurricanes, the wrong team from the State of Florida will play for the National Championship. 

That's right, the much hated Florida Gators have managed to crawl away from The Swamp long enough to play host to the Oklahoma Sooners in the BCS title game at Dolphin Stadium. 

The story lines are intriguing and many:  Meyer versus Stoops; Tebow vesus Bradford; Sooner versus Gators; explosive offense versus explosive offense;  Heisman winner versus Heisman winner.  Murray versus Harvin.  Boomer Sooner versus Albert The Alligator; Orange and Blue versus Red and White.

• Bob Stoops versus Urban Meyer: A great coaching matchup leads the list of determining factors in this game.  These top notch coaches will face off for the first time with Meyer having the most recent success in big bowl games while Stoops has had some struggles.  Edge: Gators.
• Gators QB Tim Tebow, the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner, will compete against 2008 Heisman winner Sam Bradford from the Sooners.  Both are super talented and capable of putting up tons of points in the blink of an eye.  Bradford, who recently announced that he is going to enter the NFL draft after this season, and the OU offense set all kind of scoring records this season and are considered to to have a slight edge over Timmy and the Swamp Things.  Edge: Sooners. 
• Oklahoma RB Demarco Murray may not play in the game and most certainly will be limited by injury if he does play.  Florida's Percy Harvin looks ready to return from an injury of his own and may be the most explosive and elusive player in college football.  Look for Harvin to touch the ball early and often.  Edge: Gators.
• The Boomer Schooner is fast and shiny.  Albert the Gator is slow and slimy.   Edge: Sooners.
• Every real college football fan knows it's the orange and GREEN that looks good on and off of the field.  Orange and blue?  Not so much!  Red and white is alright, I guess.  Edge: Sooners. 

So gather some friends, get out some chips and dip, ice down some adult beverages and sit back and watch the game being played on the Hurricanes home field and remember: That could have been us! 

Canespace Prediction:  Sooners 34, Gators 31.   

Comments

[CategoryIV_in_Pittsburgh]

1st

[CategoryIV_in_Pittsburgh]

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cbh]

1st

[cbh]

damn you!!

[CategoryIV_in_Pittsburgh]

I like that prediction, too

[J]

I truly dislike the Gators

[CategoryIV_in_Pittsburgh]

C'mon cbh...let a guy have his moment...lol

[CategoryIV_in_Pittsburgh]

first time for everything

[86Cane]

Nice work CatIV!

[CategoryIV_in_Pittsburgh]

Thank you Soup

[shwarma]

These boys are jawing already, intersted to see who comes out and backs it up

[shwarma]

Wright just layed that guy out but got away with PI as he arrived early

[mi@mic@ne]

the lizards are cheating that was a head shot there big fifteen and kick the safety out of the game

[shwarma]

OU's line is handling them

[mi@mic@ne]

man what a bunch of crap

[shwarma]

Bad sack to take by Bradford

[mi@mic@ne]

head to the chin cheaters

[mi@mic@ne]

force the lizards to run the ball nickel and shadow Teabag make them hand the ball off

[shwarma]

On the replay def shows he hit him early thats a horrible calls by our ACC refs...cant believe announcers missed too

[mi@mic@ne]

he cant use his head as a weapon any more as a head shot

[hurriphin09]

Still wish Major Wright's moms would've let him come to UM.

Hmmm..... I wonder if Ray Ray will make me forget that he's even alive.... ?

[mi@mic@ne]

that was a big play so far

[mi@mic@ne]

what a load for an arm like a shot put

[shwarma]

Harvin is soft telling the oc how many plays he can handle before the game even

[mi@mic@ne]

what a load for an arm like a shot put

[mi@mic@ne]

go to florida and you will not be prepared for the NFL

[mi@mic@ne]

gimic offense

[mi@mic@ne]

t bag does not have an NFL type arm

[mi@mic@ne]

i don t care if you put six backs in force the lizards to run

[shwarma]

looks like its just the two of us

[mi@mic@ne]

they are loaded in the secondary so now they are going to ge t the picks

[Rashad]

Thats what im talking about!! Teblow with the pick.

[shwarma]

florida was moving the ball but that pick was because of tebow arm (though I think Ja-scory has trouble with that throw too so not saying we're any better)

[hurriphin09]

If tebow wants to be a 1st round pick, he'd better do his Sr. year.
UF has had about 2 noteworthy offensive players in the NFL.

Good luck.

[SOUP]

RASHAD...how's it goin' bro? Didn't get a chance to use your photo from the Under Armour game yet, but I will!

[shwarma]

yeah that was an nfl throw and he got an F

[J]

For anyone interested, I've been told it won't be Shula

[mi@mic@ne]

that was a great throw

[shwarma]

was this guy the ref at Virginia?

[mi@mic@ne]

the refs must be in the lizards back pockets they are ruining the momentum

[mi@mic@ne]

the refs have taken at least ten points so far the shot to the head and then this series penalties

[hurriphin09]

What a snoozefest.....

Anyone else wanna watch Batman Forever with me, on FAM. ABC?

[Rashad]

Soup! Whats up man. Its cool when you do I wanna copy it and put it as my default pic on facebook and let my friends know to check out Canespace.

[mi@mic@ne]

good make them one dimensional

[mi@mic@ne]

here come the pass

[mi@mic@ne]

they cant run worth a crap

[mi@mic@ne]

got to shadow tbag

[mi@mic@ne]

three down every one else playing the pass

[shwarma]

would the announcer like kneepads? timmy is the greatest. i love timmmy. he's the man. he circumsized my son

[solarcane]

j thanks I care

peace