When Team A reaches halftime thinking, "We're lucky to be this close," either Team B puts things away easily in the second half, or Team A takes advantage of its second life and wins via second half surge. At this point, games can turn in two different ways. After a tough first quarter, Florida fought back to within 19-13 at halftime. Looking at the per-quarter breakdown, it's easy to tell when this game was won. Of course, leaving things in the bag of tricks can backfire when you almost lose to Auburn and Tennessee along the way, but all's well that ends well. When considering that the only teams to give up more EqPts to Alabama than Florida were Florida International, North Texas and Chattanooga, it is beyond fair to assume that Saban and crew were saving up quite a few tricks for the biggest game on the schedule, probably even before it officially became a game on the schedule. While Florida's offensive numbers were average at best, this game was clearly decided by Alabama's suddenly unstoppable offense. It only takes one game for Texas to steal the Tide's thunder. People are assuming Alabama will win the national title after they played their best game of the year and Texas laid an absolute stink bomb, but, again, we worship a sport reliant on one-shot deals.
Saban really has done an outstanding job this year, taking a team mixed with recognizable veterans and insanely talented, precocious youth and making them a fast and mean team capable of beating you with both offense (as they did Saturday) and defense (as they did most of the year). why, oh why, did Urban Meyer give up on the run so quickly?) It's a one-shot deal, and Nick Saban absolutely coached laps around Urban Meyer. But this is college football, not baseball. If they were to play again this weekend, the same game plan wouldn't work, and Florida might strike back. " To me, there was not a lot of difference in terms of athleticism or talent, but Alabama had an absolutely fantastic game plan, and they out-executed Florida. Last weekend's SEC title game was the ultimate example of when we say "If these two teams played ten times. That's right, the two games that served as national semifinals last week - Alabama-Florida and Nebraska-Texas (in which Nebraska served as a surrogate for Cincinnati/TCU). We are going with two VN Box Scores this week, and you can probably guess which two they are. This is an interesting world in which we live. I knew the Tebow Hate had gone to a new level when my wife giddily became a fan of "Tim Tebow Crying" on Facebook.
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