Florida on top of 2009 BCS Rankings
Surprise surprise.
After all the drama and the emotional comebacks, everything is where it should be at this point of the 2009 NCAA college football season.
You read it, because after watching Tim Tebow go down hard that almost destroyed the world around Gator fans in Florida, the Florida Gators are once again on top of the BCS rankings.
Thanks to Tebow’s surprising return to the Florida Gators roster two weekends ago, the Gators were able to stay undefeated to be named no.1 in this season’s first BCS rankings. Their first test as the nation’s no.1 team this year is on Saturday when they go up against Mississippi State.
Not far behind are the Alabama Crimson Tide. Second in every statistical category compiled by the USA Today coaches’ poll and the Harris poll, the Crimson Tide is easily Florida’s biggest threat, so far anyway. If both the Gators and the Crimson Tide remain undefeated, they will play each other in the Southeastern Conference championship. A prelude to the BCS national championship game perhaps?
Sitting on third are the Texas Longhorns, joining Florida and Alabama in the top three. With the strength of their schedule, all three just need to win out to reach the BCS national championship game on January 7 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. At least that’s according to BCS analyst (yes, the BCS has analysts…) Jerry Palm.
The problem is, it seems history is not on their side.
In the first 11 years of the BCS rankings, the top two teams in the first standings have only reached the title game once when Texas and Southern California did it in the 2005 season. Overall, only 10 of the 22 teams that were ranked first or second in the first standings made it all the way to the championship game.
That’s probably good news to the still undefeated Boise State Broncos, problem is, the people behind the BCS polls do not like Boise State. According to Jerry Palm, Boise State doesn’t have that much support in the polls compared to schools like USC and Florida.
”The national championship is not realistic for them,” Palm said. ”They’re going to get passed. Their support in the polls is eroding each week.”
Which team will win the 2010 BCS National Championship? Bodog Sportsbook has the odds.
Florida Gators 3.00
Oklahoma Sooners 5.50
Alabama Crimson Tide 21.00
USC Trojans 7.00
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