We knew this was coming, but from Mikey?
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Subject: [gatornews] Utah, not Gators or Sooners, should be national champs
Utah, not Gators or Sooners, should be national champs
posted by Mike Bianchi on Jan 5, 2009 6:34:48 AM
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Give me a 'U' for Undefeated Utah
MIAMI -- Just arrived in South Florida to cover the BCS National
Championship Game, but I have to ask myself this question: Why am I here
covering a mythical championship?
Shouldn't Utah, by virtue of its 31-17 victory over big, bad Southeastern
Conference heavyweight Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, be crowned the real,
undisputed national champion?
If I were the king of college football, I would decree Utah the national
champion and declare Thursday's supposed championship Game between Florida and
Oklahoma to be moot.
Utah is the only undefeated team in the country. Period. Case closed.
Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Southern Cal all have one loss. They have no argument.
And please spare me the rhetoric about how Utah plays nobody. The Utes have
beaten four top 25 teams this season; Florida has beaten two.
This is why college football stinks: Because there is no room for
Cinderella to win a national championship. Because Utah didn't have the luxury
of being invited into a major conference 100 years ago when college football
was formed, the Utes don't get to play for a national championship. In other
words, Utah is being penalized for something it has absolutely no control over.
I believe Utah could play with any team in the country this season just as
I believe an undefeated Marshall team of a few years ago -- a team with Randy
Moss and many other future NFL players on its roster -- could have played with
any team in the country.
But not in the screwy, unfair world of college football, where the the
little guy never gets a chance to play for the big prize.
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