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Orlando Sentinel: Voters should make Utah the national champions
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If you watched that game last night, the national championship game, and you were impartial to any team in college ball. You would have to say florida was the best team for any bowl game played this year. They would have completely shut down the utes and any other team for that matter. But to even try and say that the utes would beat florida or oklahoma eight out of ten times is ridiculous.
I will even go one better, TCU would beat utah eight out of ten times given the opportunity and every other fan (except ute fans) would agree!!! Give utah a final four or five national ranking, records aside, and that would be EXTREMELY generous, but hey, i am a generous guy!!
Wow. A team who's last appearance in the Sugar Bowl was in the early 90's. Who's program is on the rebound after a remarkable season, and they are 'un-motivated' to be in the prestigious Sugar Bowl?
I know, I know - they were HOPING to play for a NC. That's still no excuse, especially when your program is several years ahead of where it's anticipated it to be. Enough with the excuses.
I don't buy it. They appeared unmotivated because they were dominated on both sides of the ball. Good teams make other teams look bad.
Not being motivated had nothing to do with it. And if you honestly think that, then perhaps your working knowledge of the game needs some re-thinking.
Go Cougars! way to go Utah but not in our house!
And what could one guy like their All-American lineman Andre Smith do? His difference would have probably been an extra field goal made for Bama, but he wouldn't have been any help to the 21-0 start of the Utes. When I watched the Gators last night, I saw the same plays Utah runs- the options, the quarterback draws, the shuffle passes, etc.
I'll tell you one thing- hope Boise State comes to the Mtn. West and we'll definitely be a BCS conference. That team of yours is for real! BYU will then be middle of the pack if that happened and it will always be Utah, BSU, TCU and those pesky AFA cadets.
With Brian Johnson running the O and the Utah defense, I like our chances in a close game. I SAY BRING EM ON!
GO UTES
(And shame on Urban for not sharing the title with us)
After that the Tide held their own? Duuuuude! The only thing the Tide was doing was trying to keep their head above water. Their game is smash-mouth football - the run, and they were shut down. Completely. One touchdown was on a Utah turnover with a very short field - the other was on a punt return. Sure they got three points on one of their few drives into Utah territory - but it was slim pickin's the entire night for 'Bama.
And if the Tide 'made the adjustments they needed to make' then Saban should be run out of town. 8 sacks...and held to 60+ yards total rushing...if that's the adjustments they needed to make then WOW, that's some heads-up planning by the Alabama coaching staff!
Me, personally, if I'm going to make adjustments, I'd at LEAST include trying to win in those plans.
You make me laugh.
PLUS, i noticed that you made no reference to my other comments concerning florida or oklahoma or TCU, that is only because you know those are the FACTS and the TRUTH. So keep on laughing "duuuuuude" that is probably the only way you can justify your point without having your whole world come crashing down all around you.
You make me ............... cry, with laughter that is!!!!!!!
Sounds like you need to make some adjustments in your little world. Roll tide roll, even if they failed to get up for this game.
Bottom line there is only 1 team that doesn't have to explain away a loss. This Cougar Alumn is proud of what the Utes have accomplished and jealous of the red hot fire I see up north and dismayed at the cold blue complacency I see down south.
I didn't respond to the other part of your brilliant post being that if we took YOUR logic, EVERY TEAMS WINS WOULD BE QUESTIONABLE. It's not realistic. If Oregon State played USC 10 times, then they would win 8 of those times. So what? They don't play 10 times...they play ONCE, and during that ONE game, you either win or lose. Your TIDE LOST. There's no do-overs' in college football. It's speculation and it's worthless.
What if Oklahoma and Florida played ten times. What if Ohio State and Texas played ten times? When we're done with this line of thinking, let's play a game of Chutes and Ladders!
The only thing Alabama 'rolled', was over. End of story.
LOL!!! I guess all sport writers are wrong and you working for min wage at Walmart are right on.
The fact is Utah torched Bama.
What adjustments did Bama make, I recall 8 sacks 3 in the 4th the last one causing a fumble that ended all hopes with 5 minutes left and Utah up 14.
How did the tide hold their own? Bama defense could got rolled by BJ for 31 points same as FL. Bama offense scored a single TD only after a Ute TO at their own 30. 1 for 3 on LONG field goals (can't use the TCU excuse).
So yes I can see why a BYU fan thinks Bama held their own... same reason they think 48-24 was a close game even though football is played in 4 Qtrs... and BYU should have gone 21-1 IF they ran the ball.
Seasons over Utah AP #2!!!
Go Utes!!
K guys here is some reality for you... USC played them away and only lost by a touchdown. USC would roll Utah. The difference is USC plays consistently good and Utah showed up for a big game.
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Here's the only reality, not what IFs...
Utah is 13-0, torched #4 Bama on the road, beat 2 AP top-10 teams and 4 top-25 teams.
USC at 12-1 lost to OSU and beat #8 Penn in a home game and beat 1 AP top-10 team (Penn).
FL 12-1 lost to then un-ranked Old Miss at home, I bet you a dollar at the time they wished OM missed a few field goals.
With that said REALITY is FL with their SOS are the champs... but Utah (even Texas over OK) deserves a chance at the title game. Thus, FL is the DISPUTED BCS champs.
A lot of people here arguing about whether that's the truth or not. The answer is obvious. It's NOT THE TRUTH. It's what that guy (and a few of you) think is the truth. It's opinion only.
The truth is what happened on the field when the games were played. Everything else is pointless speculation.
The truth is that the BCS did what it was created to do, which was to rook teams like Utah out of a shot at the national title. I prefer the old way to the BCS, myself -- at least then nobody pretended there was always a legitimate champion.
The Gators have been named the champs. They're a darn fine football team. That's reality. Those realities don't make their championship legitimate or right. They won a championship of opinion, speculation, and peculation; the product of a system that has foreordained that fully half the teams in it are not allowed to take the top spot, no matter what they do.
Wonder when we'll get a playoff?
AT least there you have a true winner.
Urban decided to take the low road and couldn't share with his younger brother that he knows would beat the living daylights out of him. Ole Miss??? come on...you got to be kidding and I thought their loss was a to a ranked team. Who the heck is Ole miss? They must be division II. Dont worry this will be in the courts and the BCS dissolved.
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