The Oklahoma Sooners and the Florida Gators battle for the BCS championship Thursday night in a game with plenty of marquee value. While plenty of fans will complain that a sizzling Southern California or undefeated Utah should have been invited to the dance it Sooners—Gators has the makings of a thrilling match-up.
Still, one of my problems with the bowl set-up is that instead of watching battles between two teams hitting on all cylinders we see teams that have not played in a month. The Sooners and Gators revved their engines through the last few weeks of the regular season and their respective title games only to idle for a month.
I remember hearing NFL coaches complain that the two weeks between the conference championships and the Super Bowl were detrimental to the game because it took teams out of the rhythm they had established throughout the year. When Texas played Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl, both had been off for more than five weeks.
Years ago, the pollsters knew this and chose the national champion before the bowls. That's how Notre Dame piled up 5 titles despite a 40 year bowl embargo that ended in 1970.
If OU and Florida give us a great title game it will be a tribute to the teams and athletes on hand, not the flawed system.
Rich Flowers News Editor
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