Gators Play for National Title! Or do you want a replay?

Question

Gators are #1 12-1 in Toughest Division and hardest Schedule. Michigan is #2 in their division and play a weaker division. WIll anyone outside out Ohio and Michigan watch that replay?

Answer 1

I want the GATORS to play in the national title game, so everyone will know who is the best in the nation.

If Michigan plays Ohio State again, the world will never know.

Answer 2

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Case for Michigan

1. Michigan is generally acknowledged as the nation's second-best team. Even when USC was ranked number two, that was more of a function of the voters preventing a rematch than it was a confirmation of the Trojans.

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2. The first game in Columbus didn't settle the issue in the minds of many. If you're a believer that home-field advantage means three points, then Michigan and Ohio State are dead even. Now, many want to see what would happen on a neutral field.

3. Going into this weekend, Michigan played the nation's third-toughest schedule behind Cincinnati and one other team which will go nameless for a moment.

4. It's not like Florida showed great pizzazz getting to 12-1. There's a reason no one's been pushing the Gators for the national title; it has been a bit zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (Percy Harvin excluded). While style points shouldn't matter, Florida got sacked by Auburn in a 27-17 loss; the offense was shut down in the second half (but the defense was impressive). Michigan's one loss, of course, was as forgivable as it gets.

5. The offense should be every bit as good in a rematch with Ohio State, if not better. Mario Manningham was just getting back in the swing of things. One of the nation's best receivers, Michigan's offense is far more potent when he's 100 percent and rolling. Those 39 points and close to 400 yards of total offense weren't a fluke.

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Case for Florida

1. Schedule, schedule, schedule. Going into the final weekend of the season, the Gators played the nation's toughest schedule, and it wasn't even close. The cumulative opposition winning percentage was 0.643. Number two Cincinnati was 0.622. That might not seem like much, but it is.

2. The SEC deserves a break. Auburn got hosed in 2003 when USC and Oklahoma squared off for the national title. If you believe the SEC is the nation's toughest conference, then its champion should go in.

3. Michigan didn't win it's own conference title. If you're the number two in your league, how is it possible, theoretically or practically, that you should be named the best team in the country?

4. Michigan beat an overrated Notre Dame team that had one win over a team with a pulse (Georgia Tech) and got by Wisconsin before the Badgers offense, primarily the receivers, began to jell. Ohio State and Michigan basically fattened up their records against a horrible Big Ten while Florida ended up beating nine bowl teams and lost to one.

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1. Ohio State - Idle
2. USC 9, UCLA 13 - Loss
3. Michigan - Idle
4. Florida 38, Arkansas 28 - Win
5. LSU - Idle
6. Louisville 48, Connecticut 17 - Win
7. Wisconsin - Idle
8t. Oklahoma 21, Nebraska 7 - Win
8t. Arkansas 28, Florida 38 - Loss
10. Boise State - Idle
11. Auburn - Idle
12. Notre Dame - Idle
13. Rutgers 39, West Va. 41 3OT - Loss
14. Virginia Tech - Idle
15. West Va. 41, Rutgers 39 3OT - Win
16. Wake Forest 9, Ga. Tech 6 - Win
17t. Tennessee - Idle
17t. Texas - Idle
19. Nebraska 7, Oklahoma 21 - Loss
20. Brigham Young - Idle
21. California 26, Stanford 17 - Win
22. Texas A&M - Idle
23. Ga. Tech 6, Wake Forest 9 - Loss
24. Hawaii, vs. Oregon State
25. Boston College - Idle

5. The defense is the real deal. The secondary might be a bit suspect, but the front seven, despite injuries, is rock-solid. Throw in a veteran quarterback like Chris Leak, and a head coach in Urban Meyer who doesn't lose when he gets more than two weeks to prepare, and you have a team more than good enough to not just challenge the Buckeyes, but beat them. Michigan had its chance, and lost.

Case for ... Boise State?!

1. 12-0. There are two teams in America without a loss. Boise State does play in Division I, doesn't it? If there's no playoff and no chance to actually prove it on the field, you do have to consider all 119 teams for the title. It's time to pay more than lip-service when it comes to giving the "little guy" a shot.

2. Michigan already lost to Ohio State and no one outside of the Gainesville metropolitan area is jazzed up about a Gators-Buckeyes championship. If you ever wanted to see a team like Boise State get a shot, this should be it.

3. The program deserves it. With 85 wins in eight years, it's not like this is some fluky, one-season wonder.

4. Fine, so the schedule is awful getting to fatten up on WAC teams, but Boise State obliterated Oregon State 42-14, beat a very good Hawaii team 41-34, crushed Utah 36-3, and stomped on Nevada 38-7.The Broncos have shown up in big occasions all year long and played their best football.

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Answer 3

Yes.
I am from IL. and I would watch it.

G O . B L U E ! ! . G O . M I C H I G A N ! ! !

Simply put...the ONLY reason that Michigan is not the Big Ten champion is that they lost to the Big Ten champions, # 1 OSU.
If the Big Ten is so weak, how come it has three teams with 11 wins (Ohio State, Michigan, and a VERY underrated Wisconsin, whose only loss was to Michigan)

Put Florida, LSU, Tennessee, Georgia or Auburn into the Big Ten and they would be in the same boat that Penn State has been in since 1993.....2 Big Ten titles (1994, 2005) in a conference that they were supposed to come into and totally dominate year in, year out.

In my totally biased opinion, I think that Ohio State and Michigan should be playing for the national title.
You may say, 'Michigan had thier shot and lost, why should they play again, they already played?......' I say that the two best teams in the country should play for the national title every year, and Ohio State and Michigan are CLEARLY the two best teams in the country this year, regardless of their BCS rankings.

Auburn has lost, twice...at home......Florida lost to Auburn and had more than a few unimpressive wins against MUCH lesser competition...( Geogia, Vanderbilt, South Carolina and Florida State.)

Michigan lost to Ohio State, who has been # 1 all year (including the preseason)........AT OSU, by 3 points.......if that doesn't merit a OSU - UM rematch ( on a neutral field ), then you are a fan whose team is trying to get into the national title game (FLORIDA), or, you just don't want to see the best two teams play for the national title.

I won't fault anyone, ever, for being a fan of their team, I never have. If you have a favorite team you should defend them, always, but, if your team isn't one of the two best teams in the country, then you should be happy that the two best teams in the country are playing for the national title.....

PLEASE, don't root (or RANK) against a team just because you don't like them or just don't want to have a rematch ( LOUSY EXCUSE ). As fan of college football you should always want to see the two best teams in the country play for the national title, each, and every year. That is what the BCS was created for, to end the arguing amongst all fans throughout the country, and crown a true national champion.

At the end of it all, Michigan's worst scenario is playing in the Rose Bowl, which, in my opinion the greatest of all bowls (also it was the first ever bowl game....Jan. 1,1902 Michigan 49 - Stanford 0)
So I'm not complaining that Michigan might not make the BCS NC game, I'm saying, simply, that the two best teams in the country should play for the national title........every year.

Answer 4

At the beginning of the season I thought Florida was the best in the country. But now, I think Michigan deserves a rematch. They lost by 3 on the road to an undefeated team. Let's have a rematch at a neutral site.

Answer 5

Michigan had their chance and blew it. Save the rematch for next season.
Go Gators!

Answer 6

The championship game should be the best 2 teams in the country. That should be Ohio State and Michigan.

Answer 7

All of the peolpe on ESPN, who watch alot more football than any of us, are saying that Michigan is clearly the 2nd best team.
They say that the only way Florida goes is if voters decide they don't want a rematch.
Florida fans above make me laugh, because they don't realize that by saying that Michigan doesn't deserve to go because they already played, they are discrediting the only national championship thier team has.

Answer 8

60% of me wants to see Florida in the title game, because they won the best conference with only one loss.
40% of me wants to see a rematch on a neutral field between OSU & Michigan.

Answer 9

Florida barely gets by some so called tough teams, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Georgia and so on. They lost to Auburn by more than 3. Florida also had there chance and lost, so lets stop saying Michigan had there chance because they just have 1 loss like Florida, be it though to the number 1 team in the country by only 3 points.................

Answer 10

What makes you think that the Gaiters are in the best div, Ohio State and Mich play some tough teams in bad weather
Your southern teams play in the sun with no wind or snow .
The Ohio State Mich game was one of the best this year and the best team won