The big inquiring each person is asking is - what happened to Ohio State? Everyone is speaking in the order of how the Gators dismantled the Buckeyes to win the 2006 BCS College Football Championship. The Gators seemed like they were in a disparate league than the Buckeyes. And, the justice is, they are.
The 41-14 terminal valuation makes the spectator sport be somebody than it was. Half of the Buckeyes 14 points came from their debut kick-off official document. After that play, the Buckeyes were totally controlled in every phase of the spectator sport. Florida had 370 total yards to Ohio State's 82. The Buckeyes' Heisman Trophy quarterback Troy Smith was control to one and only 4 go by completions (2 in each fractional); 35 passing yards; 1 interception; 0 touchdowns. The BCS Championship lame was the pessimal game in Troy Smith's line of work.
It's not a accident that the National Championship lame was likewise the premier juncture Troy Smith had ever been on the same pen next to the alacrity and influence of a Southeastern Conference (SEC) football game troop. I bet a lot of Buckeye players famed the day after the team game. Celebrated the information they feasible will ne'er again dramatic work on the same tract near a squad from the SEC.
There is an old axiom that "practice makes best." Playing in the SEC, Florida gets lashings of run through. In 2006, the Gators had the toughest programme in the country (.643 opponents in the lead percentage). Florida batter iv Top-25 teams (LSU, Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee) and vanished to a fifth- #9 Auburn. Additionally, they tired four other vessel teams (Alabama, South Carolina, Kentucky and Florida State). So, before finishing night's game, the Gators had earlier compete hostile NINE else vessel teams.
Ohio State? Well, the Buckeyes theatre in the Big Ten and hence single faced iii Top-25 teams all twelvemonth. They averaged terminated 36 points and 410 yards a spectator sport against above all spineless opponents. Ohio State simply was not ready for the natural endowment and intensity level of a unit close to Florida. Gators precautionary end Jarvis Moss same after the crippled that cardinal or v SEC teams could overpower Ohio State. I wouldn't go that far, but it is actual that all 9 SEC teams Florida janus-faced (including Vanderbilt) vie the Gators tougher than Ohio State did.
You necessitate more proof the SEC is in a conference of its own? O.K. Since the advent of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) system, the SEC leads all conferences (by a wide-spreading edge) next to a 10-4 BCS vessel halting journal. SEC teams are an victorious 3-0 in BCS National Championship games. In this agone body football season, the SEC:
1. Led the political unit next to six teams in the vital AP Top-25 enquiry. No separate confab had much than iv.
2. In the regular season, the SEC had an incredible 41-7 non-conference narrative. This .854 non-conference unbeaten percent was the best possible in the commonwealth.
3. Had the furthermost teams preferred for lawn bowling (9) and the furthermost vessel wins (6). No some other confab had more than 4 wins. Only the SEC (and Big East) had unbeaten bowl documentation. Even the 3 SEC bowl financial loss were zip up games that could have gone either way. Significantly, SEC bowl teams obverse better seeded teams from remaining conferences. For instance, the Chick-fil-A Bowl has agreements beside the SEC and ACC to prime the # 5 SEC squad to obverse the # 2 ACC unit. The Music City Bowl pairs # 7 from the SEC against # 5 from the ACC. Yet, the SEC static dominates the lawn bowling period after year.
The record surprising situation about the National Championship hobby was not what happened on the piece of land. The furthermost astonishing (and startling) item is that Florida about wasn't picked to comedy in the lame. In the narrowest of decisions, the BCS only just chosen Florida finished Michigan to comedy Ohio State for the National Championship.
Everyone remembers the outcry from our Michigan (and some other Big Ten) friends when Florida was picked ended the Wolverines. Of track we as well now know that Michigan went on to misplace 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 activity would have been a political unit disgrace. Unfortunately, the sincerity is that a siamese adversity has happened in the gone and will start over again in the future day.
Why? Simple. SEC Football is so hard-boiled that it is literally unrealistic for an SEC team to get finished the even season minus at smallest one loss and short nigh losing a few other games. The SEC Champion invariably emerges from the melting pot of an SEC programme as a honest champion, but contusioned and damaged. When the pollsters and computers reaper to superior which two teams will dramatic play in the BCS National Championship, a lesser team may turn up more majestic than the SEC Champ due to a weaker programme.
Many pundits underestimated Florida this period because they struggled to win various SEC games. Another representative is 2004 when Auburn went 12-0 in the equal period (13-0 after their bowl victory), yet erstwhile to qualify for the BCS Championship lame (Oklahoma was picked completed Auburn because every of Auburn's wins were not perceived as daunting adequate).
America was lucky past dark that the within your rights social unit ended up in the BCS Championship Game. But, the BCS scheme virtually guarantees rising unfairness. A college football game contest complex is the simply way to really fix the hang-up.
Well, not the simply way. Another picking would be to have the SEC Champion perfunctorily suffice for the National Championship lame. While not the quality solution, it would be more neutral than the customary policy.