24-14.
This, my friends, was the finest season in Florida Gator history. Sure, we've won the national title before, even won the title AND the Heisman trophy in the same season, and once even won the title, sandwiched by two basketball championships. All well and good - Go Gators!
This year, we lost one game by one point. I'm not going to say we SHOULD have won that game... only that we COULD have won it. Mississippi played well enough to win, and they did. We played well enough to lose by one, which we did, but we COULD have won it, and we DID win all of our other games.
After this loss, to Ole Miss, at home, when Tim Tebow was stopped on 4th and short, one of the grandest moments in college football lore occurred. It's new, but give it the test of time: After the loss, Tebow faced the microphone and apologized, and promised that no one would work harder or be more focused, or drive their team to the degree that he would. He was right. In a hundred years, this will equal "Win One For The Gipper." Wait and see.
This year, we almost took home the Heisman Trophy, and probably should have. This year, the statisticians ruled, and Sam Bradford of Oklahoma took home the trophy. Sam had a gaudy year, and led the Sooners to the national title game. In terms of leadership, he led his team to exactly the same title-game result that he himself accrued: mediocrity. Sam had a mediocre game, and the Sooners only scored 14 points. Tim Tebow did not have an especially gaudy year, statistically speaking [not like last year, when he threw for more than 20 touchdowns, and scored more than 20 himself, which no one in history had ever come close to doing]. This year was all about leadership. Tim took the team on his shoulders and refused to accept any other outcome than victory and a national championship. Because of that, because of that historic moment, because of the results, Tim Tebow should have won the Heisman Trophy. Again.
[Sooners fans know this: I cheered your team on when Jack Mildren was at QB and rejoiced when your team went undefeated, besting those hated Nebraskans. I respect Bobby Stoops and thank him in large measure for our first championship. I think Sam Bradford is a fine person and quarterback, and I wish him continued success, at OU and later on, in the NFL. I just feel that the Tebow legend this season was perhaps the greatest in history and will be remembered as such. Superman wears Tim Tebow underwear.]
This, my friends, was the finest season in Florida Gator history. Sure, we've won the national title before, even won the title AND the Heisman trophy in the same season, and once even won the title, sandwiched by two basketball championships. All well and good - Go Gators!
This year, we lost one game by one point. I'm not going to say we SHOULD have won that game... only that we COULD have won it. Mississippi played well enough to win, and they did. We played well enough to lose by one, which we did, but we COULD have won it, and we DID win all of our other games.
After this loss, to Ole Miss, at home, when Tim Tebow was stopped on 4th and short, one of the grandest moments in college football lore occurred. It's new, but give it the test of time: After the loss, Tebow faced the microphone and apologized, and promised that no one would work harder or be more focused, or drive their team to the degree that he would. He was right. In a hundred years, this will equal "Win One For The Gipper." Wait and see.
This year, we almost took home the Heisman Trophy, and probably should have. This year, the statisticians ruled, and Sam Bradford of Oklahoma took home the trophy. Sam had a gaudy year, and led the Sooners to the national title game. In terms of leadership, he led his team to exactly the same title-game result that he himself accrued: mediocrity. Sam had a mediocre game, and the Sooners only scored 14 points. Tim Tebow did not have an especially gaudy year, statistically speaking [not like last year, when he threw for more than 20 touchdowns, and scored more than 20 himself, which no one in history had ever come close to doing]. This year was all about leadership. Tim took the team on his shoulders and refused to accept any other outcome than victory and a national championship. Because of that, because of that historic moment, because of the results, Tim Tebow should have won the Heisman Trophy. Again.
[Sooners fans know this: I cheered your team on when Jack Mildren was at QB and rejoiced when your team went undefeated, besting those hated Nebraskans. I respect Bobby Stoops and thank him in large measure for our first championship. I think Sam Bradford is a fine person and quarterback, and I wish him continued success, at OU and later on, in the NFL. I just feel that the Tebow legend this season was perhaps the greatest in history and will be remembered as such. Superman wears Tim Tebow underwear.]
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