Chomp! | by Jay

41-14! (Sound familiar?) Congrats to Florida and all our Gator friends, including Gina's husband, my wife's grandmother, and of course Orson and Stranko. With a little luck (thanks, UCLA!) and some tenderness (thanks, BCS voters!) Florida made it to title game, gave up the opening kickoff for a touchdown, then unleashed hell for the following 59:45 minutes and took home the crystal egg. It's a well-deserved honor for the Gainesville Gators; this one's a no-doubter, and there won't be any split champions this year.

A lot of folks are talking about the confusion Urban inflicted on the Buckeyes with his multiple-look, spread option attack, but I think the real kudos go to the Florida defense. They destroyed the Ohio State OL, held the Bucks to 82 yards, 1/9 on third down conversions, forced the worst game of Troy Smith's career, and most importantly, put the Gator offense in position to score all night long. Here's a summary of the Gator scoring drives & where they started:

Start    Result
OSU 46   TD
OSU 34   TD
FLA 29   TD
FLA 42   FG
OSU 29   FG
OSU  5   TD
OSU 39   TD

A couple of timely penalties on kickoffs and poor special teams play helped put OSU in the hole, but it's still pretty amazing: that's an average starting position at the Ohio State 40 yard line every time the Gators scored.

And what should we say about our one-time prodigal son-turned Benedict Arnold? Only one thing, I think: his calculus two years ago was exactly correct, and Florida was much closer to a title shot than Notre Dame.