Well, this is it!  The college football season has come to an end and FiveStarPick.com is very sad to see it go.  The FedEx BCS Championship game will feature the nations top two scoring offenses in the Florida Gators and the Oklahoma Sooners.  Las Vegas sportsbooks list the Gators as 5-point favorites with the total currently at 70. 

By the end of the FBS season, 7 teams had one loss at the top of the rankings; two more were undefeated.  What was the BCS to do?  They definately got it right this year with Oklahoma and Florida.  Each team sent a Heisman candidate to the podium in New York and one came away with the hardware. 

Led by Tim Tebow, the Gators rebounded from their only loss (Ole Miss) to dominate their next 9 games.  In addition, they scored more than 49 points a game, then topped it off with a 31-20 victory over Alabama on Saturday for the SEC title.

Sam Bradford did the same for Oklahoma. The Sooners lost 45-35 to Texas in October, but still ended up with an NCAA-record 702 points this season. They ended the season by becoming the first team since 1919 to score 60-plus in five straight games.

This will be the first meeting between these two programs, each seeking their second national title this decade.  Florida was on the way up and Oklahoma was on the way down back in 1998, when Bob Stoops decided to leave as Gators defensive coordinator and take his first head-coaching job with the Sooners.  In 2000, Stoops helped Oklahoma to its 7th national title.   Still, when Steve Spurrier left Florida a year later, many Gators thought Stoops’ return was a lock.  But Stoops turned down the Gator job and they hired Ron Zook, then Urban Meyer.  Myer is trying for Florida’s second title in 3 seasons.

The Sooners rank No. 1 in scoring, averaging 54 points a game. The Gators are third, averaging 45.2 points.  Both teams are among college’s passing elite. Oklahoma is first, scoring 49 touchdowns through the air, with quarterback Sam Bradford accounting for all but one.  Bradford, third individually, has averaged 10.1 yards per pass. He threw six of the team’s seven interceptions en route to a 12-1 record.  Bradford recently had surgery on the left thumb of his non-throwing hand to repair torn ligaments suffered in the first quarter of Oklahoma’s thrashing of Missouri in the Big 12 title game for the second consecutive year. He should be ready to take snaps in practice well before the BCS face-off.

Florida is fifth in passing, with 31 touchdowns. Quarterback Tim Tebow accounted for 28 of those scores and was intercepted only twice. He averaged 9.4 yards a throw as the Gators won 12 of 13 games.

Neither team slacks off when it comes to ground attacks. Florida ranks ninth, averaging six yards a carry, with 41 TDs. Oklahoma is 12th, averaging 4.8 yards, but scored 45 times.

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