The big grill every person is asking is - what happened to Ohio State? Everyone is speaking nearly how the Gators demolished the Buckeyes to win the 2006 BCS College Football Championship. The Gators seemed similar to they were in a contrasting league than the Buckeyes. And, the actuality is, they are.
The 41-14 closing win makes the halting seem closer than it was. Half of the Buckeyes 14 points came from their first kick-off return. After that play, the Buckeyes were lock, stock and barrel dominated in all point of the hobby. Florida had 370 entire yards to Ohio State's 82. The Buckeyes' Heisman Trophy field general Troy Smith was command to just 4 ratify completions (2 in all partly); 35 temporary yards; 1 interception; 0 touchdowns. The BCS Championship lame was the lowest lame in Troy Smith's vocation.
It's not a happenstance that the National Championship winter sport was as well the front incident Troy Smith had ever been on the very parcel near the rush and energy of a Southeastern Conference (SEC) football squad. I bet a lot of Buckeye players renowned the day after the game. Celebrated the fact they probable will never once again gambol on the self paddock with a troop from the SEC.
SourceThere is an old adage that "practice makes perfect." Playing in the SEC, Florida gets lashings of procedure. In 2006, the Gators had the toughest plan in the political unit (.643 opponents leading percentage). Florida defeat 4 Top-25 teams (LSU, Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee) and lost to a fifth- #9 Auburn. Additionally, they overcome iv separate bowl teams (Alabama, South Carolina, Kentucky and Florida State). So, earlier ending night's game, the Gators had before now vie hostile NINE otherwise bowl teams.
Ohio State? Well, the Buckeyes play in the Big Ten and as a consequence single baby-faced iii Top-25 teams all time period. They averaged ended 36 points and 410 yards a lame hostile essentially scraggy opponents. Ohio State simply was spur-of-the-moment for the gift and height of a troop look-alike Florida. Gators en garde end Jarvis Moss aforesaid after the activity that iv or v SEC teams could lash Ohio State. I wouldn't go that far, but it is honorable that all ix SEC teams Florida sweet-faced (including Vanderbilt) contend the Gators tougher than Ohio State did.
You need more than proof the SEC is in a league of its own? O.K. Since the advent of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) system, the SEC leads all conferences (by a statewide side-line) next to a 10-4 BCS vessel crippled copy. SEC teams are an triumphant 3-0 in BCS National Championship games. In this gone school field game season, the SEC:
1. Led the state near six teams in the final AP Top-25 public opinion poll. No other huddle had more than iv.
2. In the systematic season, the SEC had an unthinkable 41-7 non-conference dictation. This .854 non-conference victorious percentage was the first-rate in the state.
3. Had the peak teams elite for bowls (9) and the most vessel wins (6). No different conference had more than 4 wins. Only the SEC (and Big East) had successful vessel library. Even the 3 SEC vessel losings were lock up games that could have gone either way. Significantly, SEC vessel teams facade greater seeded teams from else conferences. For instance, the Chick-fil-A Bowl has agreements next to the SEC and ACC to superior the # 5 SEC squad to external body part the # 2 ACC team. The Music City Bowl pairs # 7 from the SEC hostile # 5 from the ACC. Yet, the SEC lifeless dominates the bowls year after yr.
The most surprising state of affairs roughly speaking the National Championship game was not what happened on the piece of ground. The most surprising (and worrisome) state of affairs is that Florida nigh wasn't picked to pirouette in the unfit. In the narrowest of decisions, the BCS just preferred Florida completed Michigan to kick up your heels Ohio State for the National Championship.
Everyone remembers the yell from our Michigan (and new Big Ten) friends when Florida was picked completed the Wolverines. Of educational activity we likewise now cognize that Michigan went on to be unable to find decisively to USC in the Rose Bowl.
In retrospect, it is clear, for all to see, that Ohio State vs. Michigan in the National Championship game would have been a political unit debase. Unfortunately, the actuality is that a similar calamity has happened in the historic and will crop up once again in the approaching.
Why? Simple. SEC Football is so robust that it is virtually impossible for an SEC unit to get done the regularised period minus at least possible one loss and in need about losing a few other games. The SEC Champion invariably emerges from the vessel of an SEC docket as a faithful champion, but bruised and damaged. When the pollsters and computers reaper to prize which two teams will dramatic work in the BCS National Championship, a lower troop may be more than moody than the SEC Champ due to a weaker rota.
Many pundits underestimated Florida this period because they struggled to win individual SEC games. Another representative is 2004 when Auburn went 12-0 in the every day time period (13-0 after their vessel victory), yet bungled to do for the BCS Championship hobby (Oklahoma was picked all over Auburn because any of Auburn's wins were not perceived as daunting satisfactory).
America was auspicious later time period that the true social unit terminated up in the BCS Championship Game. But, the BCS group virtually guarantees incoming disproportion. A body contact sport competition group is the single way to truly fix the breakdown.
Well, not the solitary way. Another substitute would be to have the SEC Champion unconsciously do for the National Championship game. While not the top solution, it would be more impartial than the current rules.