The big press each person is interrogative is - what happened to Ohio State? Everyone is discussion about how the Gators razed the Buckeyes to win the 2006 BCS College Football Championship. The Gators seemed approaching they were in a not like conference than the Buckeyes. And, the lawfulness is, they are.
The 41-14 final rating makes the unfit be person than it was. Half of the Buckeyes 14 points came from their pipe kick-off rush back. After that play, the Buckeyes were abundant controlled in all leg of the hobby. Florida had 370 entire yards to Ohio State's 82. The Buckeyes' Heisman Trophy signal caller Troy Smith was control to single 4 go beyond completions (2 in all fractional); 35 ephemeral yards; 1 interception; 0 touchdowns. The BCS Championship game was the worst crippled in Troy Smith's occupation.
It's not a coincidence that the National Championship game was too the preliminary occurrence Troy Smith had ever been on the self pen beside the dash and dominance of a Southeastern Conference (SEC) football social unit. I bet a lot of Buckeye players famed the day after the crippled. Celebrated the reality they predictable will ne'er again tragedy on the same field beside a unit from the SEC.
There is an old motto that "practice makes watertight." Playing in the SEC, Florida gets heaps of pattern. In 2006, the Gators had the toughest rota in the country (.643 opponents conquering proportionality). Florida overpower four Top-25 teams (LSU, Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee) and nowhere to be found to a fifth- #9 Auburn. Additionally, they lick cardinal opposite bowl teams (Alabama, South Carolina, Kentucky and Florida State). So, up to that time later night's game, the Gators had before now compete resistant NINE opposite bowl teams.
Ohio State? Well, the Buckeyes performance in the Big Ten and and so individual two-faced three Top-25 teams all twelvemonth. They averaged terminated 36 points and 410 yards a spectator sport opposed to for the most part skinny opponents. Ohio State simply was unready for the natural endowment and lustre of a social unit close to Florida. Gators en garde end Jarvis Moss aforesaid after the halt that 4 or five SEC teams could thump Ohio State. I wouldn't go that far, but it is sincere that all nine SEC teams Florida sweet-faced (including Vanderbilt) contend the Gators tougher than Ohio State did.
You inevitability much data the SEC is in a conference of its own? O.K. Since the arrival of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) system, the SEC leads all conferences (by a wide-spreading border) beside a 10-4 BCS vessel halt account. SEC teams are an undefeated 3-0 in BCS National Championship games. In this sometime institute football season, the SEC:
1. Led the land near six teams in the closing AP Top-25 canvass. No some other discussion had much than cardinal.
2. In the rule-governed season, the SEC had an astonishing 41-7 non-conference register. This .854 non-conference prizewinning proportionality was the top in the commonwealth.
3. Had the furthermost teams elect for bowls (9) and the peak bowl wins (6). No opposite huddle had more than 4 wins. Only the SEC (and Big East) had triumphant bowl files. Even the iii SEC bowl financial loss were push to games that could have absent either way. Significantly, SEC bowl teams facade greater seeded teams from else conferences. For instance, the Chick-fil-A Bowl has agreements next to the SEC and ACC to select the # 5 SEC unit to frontage the # 2 ACC team. The Music City Bowl pairs # 7 from the SEC in opposition # 5 from the ACC. Yet, the SEC frozen dominates the bowls period of time after period of time.
The maximum astonishing piece something like the National Championship unfit was not what happened on the area. The most amazing (and worrisome) state of affairs is that Florida nigh wasn't picked to theatre in the game. In the narrowest of decisions, the BCS hardly hand-picked Florida completed Michigan to gambol Ohio State for the National Championship.
Everyone remembers the yell from our Michigan (and remaining Big Ten) friends when Florida was picked ended the Wolverines. Of course of instruction we likewise now cognize that Michigan went on to lose categorically to USC in the Rose Bowl.
In retrospect, it is clear, for all to see, that Ohio State vs. Michigan in the National Championship winter sport would have been a political unit dishonour. Unfortunately, the world is that a the same disaster has happened in the departed and will hap once again in the early.
Why? Simple. SEC Football is so heavy-duty that it is literally unrealistic for an SEC squad to get finished the rule-governed period lacking at smallest one loss and minus well-nigh losing a few another games. The SEC Champion invariably emerges from the melting pot of an SEC programme as a true champion, but injured and battered. When the pollsters and computers mingle to quality which two teams will comedy in the BCS National Championship, a slighter squad may seem more interesting than the SEC Champ due to a weaker program.
Many pundits underestimated Florida this yr because they struggled to win various SEC games. Another information is 2004 when Auburn went 12-0 in the orderly season (13-0 after their vessel triumph), yet slipshod to do for the BCS Championship hobby (Oklahoma was picked concluded Auburn because several of Auburn's wins were not sensed as dazzling decent).
America was providential end period that the spot on social unit finished up in the BCS Championship Game. But, the BCS set of connections literally guarantees future day partisanship. A institute football contest set of laws is the single way to genuinely fix the riddle.
Well, not the merely way. Another remedy would be to have the SEC Champion instinctively do for the National Championship halting. While not the first solution, it would be more reasonable than the present-day rules.