After the Crimson Tide swamped the Gators and Texas squeaked by the Huskers, many of the final pins of the BCS lock fell into place to setup the long awaited battle of the best college football teams in the BCS National Championship Game on January 7th at 8pm.

At least the best teams not in the SEC. No nice way to say this, but the Gators got their gluteus handed to them by Alabama, in every phase of the game. And who was that QB dressed up like Greg McElroy? He looked very good, almost looked like Colt McCoy with that one-foot tightrope move.

So I wrote last week that McCoy should be a lock for the Heisman Trophy, but after Ndamukong Suh spent the evening bumping into him I am inclined to edge Mark Ingram up to #1 in my expected Heisman result.

Gentlemen, please return those signs to the walls of the field. The Tide celebrates the beatdown of the Gators in the SEC Championship Game Saturday. (Icon SMI)

Finally, I was thisclose to putting TCU at #2 for my final regular season poll after Texas came one second from losing the Big 12 Championship game. I also noticed that Cincinnati got the edge at #2 on the BCS Computer polls. Longhorns need to count their blessings that they have a shot at the title after the last two games. Put that coffee down, coffee is for closers only.

Rank	Team
1	Alabama
2	Texas
3	TCU
4	Cincinnati
5	Florida
6	Boise State
7	Oregon
8	Georgia Tech
9	Ohio State
10	Iowa
11	Virginia Tech
12	LSU
13	Miami (Florida)
14	Penn State
15	Brigham Young
16	Oregon State
17	West Virginia
18	Pittsburgh
19	Nebraska
20	Oklahoma State
21	Arizona
22	Stanford
23	Utah
24	Wisconsin
25	Central Michigan

The 2008 Season in a Box: Ever get something from Brooks Brothers?  I haven’t, but I imagine it comes in a pretty staid and standard box, and whatever you get in it is going to not only look solid at worst, it also cost the person who bought it an arm and a leg, because that place isn’t cheap.  Still, given the option between Brooks Brothers and …well, nearly anywhere else, you’d probably choose Brooks Brothers if you cared about anything related to appearance at work.  And we know that matters.

 Of course, nobody told you that the stuff in there was off-brand and the shirts will rip after you wear them 10 times, but that happens sometimes.  I mean, it’s not cheap. Read the rest of this entry →