Open BCS Championship Diary

That Florida is in the BCS Championship Game for the 2006 season is a joke. They haven't kicked off yet and I'm predicting a blowout. Ohio State is going to roll.

That was fast. Just look at the timestamps.

is playing a lot better early than I would have given them credit for. I sure hope they don't make me eat my words by the end of the night.

This is definitely gonna be a fun game.  Florida's jumped out early, but we'll see if OSU will power back.

Any interest here in Ted Ginn, Jr with the first round pick??????

Yikes, this first half got out of hand.

I'm still picking Ohio State to come back and win, but I know longer believe that they will blow out the Gators...

College games often seriously change in the second half. I've been to enough Cal games to know that. I don't think either of these teams will get out-athleted by the other as the game wears on, but I do think you'll see Ohio State get it together and really push. There are just too many players on that team.

Man, if I'd known Fooch would jump this to the main page I wouldn't have been so pro-Ohio in the main text. But was it worth it? Totally.

Now that almost definitely ices this game. Ohio State has about a one percent chance of coming back from this, and with the uninspired play so far I might be willing to go down to zero.

I'm really surprised. Ohio State has just played a bad game (the tackling has been awful on defense, and with Ginn out the receivers looked extremely poor), and Florida's defense has been absolutely fantastic.

I hate to say it, too, but Troy Smith has not played a very good game. He hasn't had much to work with because of the pressure he's been under by that Florida defense and the fact he's had very few guys who resembled being open, but two things have really stuck out at me: 1) he's overthrown a lot of passes, which he just shouldn't be doing and 2) he's consistently scrambling toward his primary reciever instead of away from presure and has run himself into a couple of sacks along the way by doing it. He should know better.

What I have liked from him is he's kept his head up all game and is spending his time on the sidelines trying to get his teammates fired up. It hasn't worked very well so far, but despite his poor play he's showing himself to be a great teammate.

I've never been convinced by Chris Leak, and frankly I'm still not, but he's played a heck of a game.

And I hate the way Florida plays Tebow as a runner who throws. It's obnoxious (and his ridiculous reactions every time he touches the ball are even more obnoxious). I like the idea of two quartebacks with different styles and abilities being used in key situations (specifically the idea of getting the freshman Tebow actual game time by doing it, because I don't normally believe in any benefits to the quarterback shuffle), but it should work like the thunder and lightning of passers... not the passer and the runner. Most of Tebow's plays haven't even pretended to be throws, and I don't think he's handed the ball off a single time. It does very little to prepare him for next year and it makes him look like a complete tool (what quarteback celebrates so much about being asked to not pass the ball... it's stupid, and he looks like a moron for playing it up so much).

I'm not surprised by the Florida offense, but the defense was really impressive and better than advertised. They got so much pressure on Troy Smith all day. I really liked the way he played this year, but he played like shit this game with all of that pressure on him. The loss of Ginn didn't help, either. It probably hurts his draft stock, though.

I am also quite impressed with Jarvis Moss in particular (#94, the DE for Florida). My bet is he goes pro. Boy, was he fast.

The Florida D held OSU to 79 total net yards. Unbelievable.