Even though Urban Meyer and Tim Tebow appear to have designs on making BCS title games their personal playground, let’s not jump to the conclusion that Florida will capture its third title in the past four years. We’re not even convinced that the Gators will be in Pasadena on Jan. 7, 2010.
President-elect Barack Obama says he still thinks there needs to be a playoff system for determining the country's college football champion.
Always up to its neck in controversy, the Bowl Championship Series slithered off the hook once again. The charitable party allowing that to happen was surprisingly the BCS-bashing media itself ... more specifically the 65 journalists that comprise the Associated Press Top 25.Handed a golden opportunity, gift-wrapped in the form of undefeated Utah, the AP poll turned its back on the nation's only perfect team and rubber stamped BCS champion Florida as its top dog as well.This is not to say that the Gators, who defeated Oklahoma 24-14 Thursday to automatically earn the BCS title, don't deserve to be crowned. They certainly earned that right. But so did the Utes and a split national championship wouldn't have drawn any blood from anybody besides the much-maligned BCS.In the very least, Utah deserved to get more than 16 of the 65 first-place votes available. There really is no legitimate rationale against the Utes being No. 1.Winning is the name of the game and no one did that better than Utah.
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- Shortly before Thursday night’s BCS Championship Game, a plane flew over Dolphin Stadium, dragging behind a predictable banner.
Florida receiver Percy Harvin embraced coach Urban Meyer near midfield, got a kiss on the cheek and two congratulatory words.
Tim Tebow stepped off the bus when he arrived at Dolphin Stadium, made a beeline for a group of Florida fans nearby, pulled off his tie and started riling up the crowd.
Florida coach Urban Meyer wrapped both hands around the crystal football Friday, started to lift it off its stand and then nearly fumbled the whole trophy.
President-elect Barack Obama and Texas congressman Joe Barton don't have much in common, but they do agree on one thing: the Bowl Championship Series must go.
They are two of college football's superstar coaches. Salaries that top $3 million per year. Teams that have won more than 80 percent of their games. National championship rings to flash at blue-chip recruits.
Frank Alexander's career at Oklahoma nearly ended before it got started.
It’s on you, OU.
Cherokee Nation Chief Chad Smith likes to sport his "OU" hat with the letters written in the tribe's alphabet.
The thought was almost enough to make you hope before Thursday that Oklahoma lost the BCS title game. It was the glimmer of hope that coming this close to a national championship would convince Sam Bradford to come back for one more year and one more shot at a national title.
Thursday's championship football game between No. 2 Florida and No. 1 Oklahoma is obviously a big game, but big enough to shut down Congress? Rep. Cliff Stearns hopes so.
Let the rest of the country brag about its ivy-covered traditions and its cultural superiority. Down in Dixie, it's all about trotting out the nation's top college football teams on any given Saturday.
Utah's attorney general is investigating the Bowl Championship Series for a possible violation of federal antitrust laws after an undefeated Utes team was left out of the national title game for the second time in five years.
Back in the mid-1990s Gary Barnett led Northwestern to its first Rose Bowl appearance since, well, Chicago was considered northwestern. At the time, Barnett was relatively young and unquestionably dynamic, and so he became a coveted attraction on the banquet circuit.
For all its flaws — and there were many — the Fiesta Bowl was a highly entertaining and competitive football game with a storybook ending. It also came with a message for the BCS: You guys really blew it when you left Utah out of the equation.
Two Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks couldn't produce a point in the first quarter of the BCS championship game. Tim Tebow and No. 1 Florida and Sam Bradford and No. 2 Oklahoma were scoreless after the first 15 minutes at Dolphin Stadium on Thursday night.
If this game takes its name from the Spanish word for “celebration”, how come everyone at the Fiesta Bowl looks so glum? Why did Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, when requested to bring 30 players to media day on Friday, opt not to include his starting quarterback among the two-and-a-half dozen Buckeyes? And why do we get the feeling that if Texas players were to send “Wish U Were Here” postcards to their Oklahoma counterparts, the sentiment would not be congenial?
For this season's national championship game, Florida coach Urban Meyer is following the plan used when the Gators won the title two years ago.
College football live in 3-D is coming soon — possibly to a theater near you.
Taking aim at a BCS system he said "consistently misfires," a member of Congress planned to introduce legislation Wednesday that would force college football to adopt a playoff to determine the national champion.