For about 52 days, all I've heard is OSU this and OSU that. Michigan belongs in the National Championship game this and Florida doesn't deserve that. Troy Smith is the Heisman Trophy winner this and the National Title will be a forgone conclusion that. Looks like Florida didn't take too kindly to hearing all of this over the course of the past month and change, because with an emphatic jackslap and tailwhip, they send Troy Smith into Heisman Loserville with other ugluminaries such as Gino Bloretta, Eric Couch, Chris Twinkie and well...a ton of other Heisman clowns who basically followed up the happiest day of their collegiate lives with the worst day of their careers. Oh and before I get into the meat of this rant of mine, couple of things I feel the need to touch on...

A) Enough with the "Big Ten is the toughest conference in football" crap. SEC fans have heard it, Florida heard it and after your conference champion was all but stripped down to its birthday suit with Troy Smith looking worse than Justin Zwick [wonder how many were secretly calling out for him to come in last night], are not impressed. LSU could've and probably would have done it a lot worse, Ohio State was fortunate to have skated through the year as #1.

B) BSU fans, shut up with the whole "we deserve a title shot" crap. No, you do not. The mere fact that you've got a Top 5 ranking [best in school history] is enough and should be. Your school will probably crash back down to reality next season, so enjoy this season for what it was. It's highly doubtful it'll happen again.

C) Troy Smith. Consider this your lucky quarter year. You lucked up by winning the Heisman, basically running it up on a ton of cupcake schools that let you run and throw at will...only to finally be exposed for the fraud you've been all along last night when someone that's running as fast as you are come calling. You're probably going to be the third QB taken in April, your career won't amount to much and at the end of it all, all you're gonna have to show for it are a ton of wins over That Scrimmage Squad Up North [Michigan] and a few schools that rolled over and played dead for you in your bowl wins. Odds are if Adrian Peterson didn't break his collarbone, you're watching him accept that big bronze trophy that resides on your mantle instead of taking it yourself.

D) I think I'll save this point for later. :) On to the main event.
As long as I've been watching college football, I've been privy to seeing some hellacious beat downs. I don't think I've ever seen any quite like the one I saw last night in Arizona though. But before I get all analytical with this, here's what I think I meant to say a minute ago.

Remember five years ago in the Fiesta Bowl against Miami? The infamous "pass interference" call that bailed out an undermanned Overrated State squad that shouldn't have been in that contest to begin with? Well, the Football Gods called and since you didn't get the message with Clarett becoming Public Dummy No.1, they decided to turn all of you into the epitome of your conference for one night only. Inferior, when put up against a legitimate power from the best conference in America.

Right now, it goes like this. SEC, Pac-10, Big East, Big XII, ACC, Negative 10. Tressel in four bowl games up until last night went up against the likes of The Who in Florida, Pokey State, Krap State and No Dice University a year ago. In four "big games,” Tressel hadn't been tested the way he was against Spurrier Jr. aka Urban Meyer. Yeah, I went there. I was sitting through the game last night wishing Urban would run it up, but I think after he went in for halftime, he pulled back on the reigns a bit. He didn't need to embarrass this team by running up the score; they were doing that themselves by looking inept on offense putting up only EIGHTY TWO YARDS.

That's right, 82. Even the Hoosiers were ashamed of your performance Overrated Saps. That total was the absolute worst in the history of the BCS and as an FSU fan, it made me feel just a wee bit better about what happened last November. At least FSU made it fairly close and did more than 82 yards of total offense. So can anyone tell me what happened to this supposedly versatile OSU offense last night? What happened to all of these weapons I heard so much about that was supposed to make Gator meat out of this defense? What about this vaunted D which was supposed to be SOOOO great? Guess they weren't that great after all, huh?

Last night, you saw why as Chris Berman so aptly says this, they play the games. Last night, you saw what happens when one school comes in focused, motivated and determined to prove an entire nation wrong. Oh and Lee Corso…holmes, nice of you to basically contradict what you said for all of 50 days or so by picking Florida to win instead of Ohio State. I still see you as the contradictory fool you are for blowing Ole Sweater Vest up to be "the best big game coach in OSU history" only to be out coached by Ole Ball Coach Jr. and me thinks Woody Hayes called...he wants an apology and said to kiss his ass.

The Gators did what Michigan was too mentally inept to do, at least do on a consistent and successful basis. Don't let Troy stand back and find his targets; don't let Troy run at will. If he's gonna run, let the man run for his damn life. Michigan's supposed pass rush, as vaunted as it was supposed to be, couldn't have touched Smith in their dreams if Lloyd Carr were directing it. Florida did it 5 times. Oh and after hearing so much about the "Little Animal", he looked flat out obsolete last night. As did the rest of that defense which really looked like it missed A.J. Hawk and company.

Essentially, what this game proved is that sometimes smoke and mirror teams can get by through 12 games fooling the world that they're better than they appear to be. On the flip side of it, a team that can fool the world into thinking that it's not really worthy of getting a title shot, can basically be hustling everyone...all the while knowing full well that they're more than ready to take it and whoever stands in their way to do it. They're just smart enough to let the world underestimate them the way UF was, until it's too late.

I told people that OSU was going to lose, in part because the roles have been reversed since the last time they were playing for a national title. They went from being the underdogs with the Texas sized chip on their shoulders, to the favorites who were basically enjoying being all but given the glass ball before kickoff. Whether they had 51 days off or 551, it didn't matter.

They were going to lose last night to Florida and that was all there was to it. And in the process, OSU made history. They became the first school not just to grant one school possession of the national title in men's basketball and football. They became the first school to lose to a school in both football and basketball by damn near the same margin of defeat. The basketball team [equally overrated if not more] lost to the Billyballers by 26. Ole Sweater Vest's boys lost to the Urban Developed Swamprats by 27.

Alright, back to being an FSU fan.

See ya in November, boys.