Florida won the National Championship Monday night for the second time in its school's history.  Former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler used to call it the "mythical National Championship" because you had to rely on people to vote on who the best was instead of it getting settled on the field.  Florida was lucky to even be in the game in the first place.  Florida was sitting in fourth place in the BCS standings with two weeks to go.  USC had jumped in front of Michigan and then lost to rival UCLA.  This leap frogged Florida from four to number two.  But how?  If they were better than Michigan before USC lost, then why weren't they already number 3?

Here is why, they beat Arkansas in the SEC title game giving them the SEC Championship and an automatic BCS bid.  In order to play for the National Championship you need to be a conference champion, unless you are Nebraska.  Why not Boise State?  They won their conference (WAC does not get an automatic BCS bid) Championship and went undefeated.

Here are some serious arguments:

1.  Florida deserved to be there because they won the SEC Championship and went 12-1.  But wait.  They lost to Auburn, a two loss team (11-2) which is still not a bad loss, but they did barely get by an eight loss Vanderbilt team on the road.  In fact they only played four road games the entire year!  They struggled in all four road games.  In the SEC Championship they needed a boneheaded punt return fumble into the endzone for a touchdown to take over in that game.  The game was a great match up for the SEC Championship right?  Well Arkansas got HAMMERED by USC 50-14 and lost to Wisconsin in the Capitol One Bowl, which Wisconsin got hammered by Michigan, which barely lost at nuimber Ohio State, which got hammered by who? Florida.  We learn nothing.  The Big Ten was 2-1 against the SEC in Bowl games.

2.  College Football is the worst set up ever.  How about this March we take the top 64 teams and they all just get one basketball game to play and we vote on who the best two teams are and they will play for the basketball championship, but make them wait almost two months to play it.  This is how NCAAFB is.  What would college sports be without great tournaments?  You would not have the College Baseball World Series, the NCAA hockey tournament, MARCH MADNESS, and what ever they do for soccer and LaCrosse.

3.  Boise State didn't even get a chance.    BSU got jobbed much like Oklahoma did at Oregon this year.  Had Oklahoma not been screwed so bad in Oregon they would have been 11-1 going into that bowl game and maybe not even playing BSU.  They may have been in the Rose Bowl playin Michigan because Oklahoma with one loss will get a higher ranking every time over BSU based onb who they play.  Boise has to fix something within first.  They need to get teams like Sacremento State off the schedule and if they are going to play Hawaii that is an AUTOMATIC road game.  If you play Hawaii, you go there.  You live in Idaho, go to Hawaii.  Everyone knows that is a bonus bowl game anyway.  Plus a road win looks better anyway.  To their credit they did hammer Oregon State (#22 in BCS) 42-14.  If there was a short playoff, just like the rest of the NFL playoffs have from the 2nd round on, they may have won it all.

4.  If all the voters who set the big game up knew so much about these teams, football, and predictions, then Ohio State would have won easily according to what everyone had said.  But they didn't did they?  So are you going to say BSU would not have beaten one of these teams?  We will never actually know.

So who really is the best team?  It doesn't matter.  Florida is the National Champions so congradulations on a great season.  You did everything you had to do and when you had your chance you didn't blow it.  Florida didn't listen to all the na sayers.  They used it for motivation.