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SEC Championship Live Blog

Nick Saban came out aggressive…. normally after winning the coin toss he elects to defer until the second half but sent out his offense instead.

Bama 3-0 – Tide opened up in the spread and moved quickly down field but only got a FG.

Bama 9-0 – stopped Florida on with a 3 and out on the Gators first drive which in cluded a big drop by Demps who was wide open for a big play. Bama moved down the field quickly for a TD but missed the extra point. McElroy looks sharp.

Bama 9-3 – Tebow comes up with a big 3rd and 3 conversion Gators get a Sturgis FG.

First Quarter thoughts – lots of Florida mistakes, costly penalties. Bama is playing aggressive on both sides of the ball and playing confidently.

Second Quarter

Gators stop Bama to start the 2nd quarter, Bama’s first punt of the game.

Gator holding penaltly wipes out a 14-yard run from Demps. 3rd Florida penalty for 31 yards. On 3rd down Tebow has nowhere to go and leaves one short that could of been picked off. Bama holds.

Bama 12-3 – Tiffin FG. Bama continues to move the ball well but needs to get TDs not FGs. McElroy is playing out of his mind. I wonder how long Bama will be able to keep Florida bottled up offensively.

Bama 12 – 10 – Tebow with two big runs and one big pass TD pass to David Nelson. Gators with a quick answer to Bama’s last drive.

Bama 19 – 10 – McElroy hits Ingram on a screen pass for 69 yards. Ingram runs it in for a 4 yard TD. Bama answers Florida’s quick score. Nice call on the screen pass against a Florida blitz.

Bama 19 – 13 – Sturgis 32-yard FG. Big play was Tebow’s connection to hottie Riley Cooper for a big play to get the Gators into FG range. Hernandez dropped a catchable pass from Tebow at the goal line during the drive.

Halftime: Bama 19 -13 Alabama gained ~ 270 yards in the first half and continues to play aggressively on offense but the Gators are heating up. Looks like it’s going to be a great 2nd half. Florida made a lot of mistakes early with penalties and dropped passes and Alabama took advantage. Every time you thought Florida would take over Alabama would answer.

3rd Quarter
Gators come up one yard short on the first series of the 2nd half. Punt to Bama….Tide ball at their own 25.

Bama 26 – 13 – McElroy hits Maze for big play, Florida commits a personal foul — roughing the passer on a busted play — and then McElroy hits his tight end Peek in the endzone. Great over the shoulder catch.

Alabama shuts down the Gators again and gets the ball back at their own 12-yard line. On the drive Gators had stopped Alabama on 3rd and 7 but an offsides penalty — Gators 5th penalty for 51 yards — gave Bama 3rd and 2 and Ingram converted for a Bama first down.

Facing another 3rd and 7 and under pressure McElroy hits Jones for a first down at the Florida 37. Several big runs from Mark Ingram to keep drives alive and Alabama takes 7:30 minutes off the clock. Going to the fourth.

End of 3rd Quarter thoughts – this is the best Bama has looked all year. McElroy, Ingram and the offiense line are winning the battle against the Gator defense. Tebow isn’t a factor. Boy was I wrong about this one.

Fourth Quarter

Bama 32 – 13 17-play drive. That’s huge. Two point conversion failed.

Florida drives down the field quickly but Tebow is intercepted in the end zone by Javier Arenas. That’s gotta be the ball game. Now it’s just how many yards will Ingram end up with.

Bama goes conservative and doesn’t get a first down. Florida takes over after punt at their own 32 yard line.

Florida drives the ball down deep again but Tebow’s pass is behind his receiver on 4th down. Bama will milk the clock.

With 6 minutes left the game is over and the keys to Alabama’s win was aggressiveness on offense, the play making of Greg McElroy and Bama’s offensive line. It’s on to Pasadena and as an Auburn fan I gotta say that I hate it but they were so much better than Florida today. Saban had the Tide ready to play.

Iron Bowl 2009 looks familiar

auburn_alabama20 years ago The University of Alabama was undefeated, ranked #2 in the country and seemingly on their way to another national championship heading into it’s annual showdown with Auburn known as the Iron Bowl.

In 1989 the Tigers walked away with a 10-point victory on what all Auburn fans agree was the most important game in Auburn football history. The 1989 Iron Bowl was the first ever played at Auburn’s Jordan-Hare stadium.

Prior to ‘89 the bitter rivals played in Birmingham’s aging Legion Field in one of those 50-50 split games like Texas and Oklahoma or Florida and Georgia, only in Birmingham there was always an advantage to the Crimson Tide because 5,000 or so Legion Field personnel received tickets and Birmingham is decidely an Alabama town.

There are many parallels between the 1989 game and the one that will be played on Friday however, no single game will ever impact both Alabama and Auburn as the one in 1989 did.

The national media is assuming Alabama and Florida, who takes on Florida State Saturday, are gonna roll into the SEC Championship game as #1 and #2 but I say they both have a lot of work to do this weekend.

An Eye For An Eye?

Florida coach Urban Meyer announced this week he has suspended linebacker Brandon Spikes for the first half of Saturday’s upcoming game against Vanderbilt after Spikes attempted to gouge the eyes of Georgia running back Washaun Ealey in last weekend’s 41-17 victory over the Bulldogs.

You can see the incident here.

Spikes made no excuses for his actions and issued an apology. We all deserve a second chance, so apology accepted but the penalty should be more than one half of football against Vandy. What’s even more troubling to me were the comments about the attempted blinding from Tim Tebow.

On ESPN Tebow states:

Tim Tebow

“I don’t think that we did anything in that game that they didn’t do,” Tebow said Monday. “If you go back and look at it and study it, you can see it in the film, too. It was an intense game, both teams were very passionate about it.”

Wow, I know he’s an extremely religious guy and all, but haven’t we gotten past the days of an eye for eye? I’m a huge Tebow admirer — as evidenced by our lengthy Tebow profile full of shirtless photos — but geez dude, he tried to blind someone. Whatever happended to turn the other cheek or do unto other as you would have them do unto you?

Talk about losing your religion.

Florida and Texas take care of business

Florida and Texas appear to be gathering momentum as they roll through the most difficult portions of their 2009 schedule. Led by Tim Tebow and Colt McCoy, much was expected of the offenses, however, the Longhorns and Gators are making some noise on the defensive side of the ball.

Tim Tebow surpassed Herschel Walker's SEC record for most rushing touchdowns

Tim Tebow surpassed Herschel Walker's SEC record for most rushing touchdowns

On Saturday the Gators held Georgia to less than 300 yards and forced four turnovers. The previous week, against Mississippi State, the Gators allowed only 237 yards and forced three more turnovers. In it’s last three games, Texas, has faced three potent offenses (Oklahoma, Missouri and Oklahoma State) and surrendered a total of 34 points.

With Alabama struggling offensively, the bye week could not have come at a better time for the Tide. However, Greg McElroy, isn’t Tebow or McCoy, and he doesn’t have the offensive weapons the Gators and Longhorns are able to deploy. With games remaining against LSU and at Auburn, I don’t expect Alabama to stay undefeated.

Iowa, TCU, Cincinnati and possibly a once-beaten LSU team could slip into the BCS title game under the right circumstances but most college football fans, without an allegiance to one of those teams, is looking forward to a match up of the Longhorns and Gators. I don’t think it’s an over stating things to say that, if it happens, Tebow versus McCoy will be this generation’s Magic Johnson versus Larry Bird. The two best teams led by college football’s two biggest stars.

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Top 25 College Football Hottie Preview #3 Tim Tebow

tim_tebow1He’s the undisputed leader of Gator Nation. In the history of college football no player has garnered so much media attention. There are lots of Tebow haters out there but I am not one of them. I believe given the choice, there’s not a fan in the country who wouldn’t want Tebow on their team. As the Gators prepare for a 3rd championship in the last four years, Tebow is preparing for his senior season and a weekly battle with Colt McCoy and Sam Bradford for the Heisman Trophy.

NFL scouts and draft gurus say Tebow isn’t as NFL ready as McCoy and Bradford. While that may be the case, in my opinion there’s no better leader in all of college football. His declaration made after last year’s loss to Ole Miss is the stuff legends are made of. You can see that here along with some more shirtless photos.

There may be other teams with more talent but if Florida gets into the championship game is there anyone who would bet against this guy? If so, call me.

See the rest of the SportsFags’ 2009 Top 25 College Football Hotties Preview

See the rest of the SportsFags’ 2009 Top 25 College Football Hotties Preview

Top 25 College Football Hottie Preview #5 Riley Cooper

riley_cooper3Florida receiver Riley Cooper is so hot that even Tim Tebow said he’s looking forward to ‘hooking up with him’. OK, so that quote is taken out of context a little bit but I think he meant it.

“He has made a bunch of big plays for us and I’m looking forward to hooking up with him for many more big plays,” Tebow said

What’s even hotter is knowing these two are roommates.

Cooper is a gifted athlete who has already signed a professional contract to play baseball for the Texas Rangers. The Gators lost a lot of explosiveness and athleticism with the departure of Percy Harvin and Louis Murphy. Cooper has never considered the number one option at Florida (30 catches for 535 yards and nine touchdowns) but his senior leadership will be much needed at that position in 2009.

See the rest of the SportsFags’ 2009 Top 25 College Football Hotties Preview

See the rest of the SportsFags’ 2009 Top 25 College Football Hotties Preview

Top 25 College Football Hottie Preview – #24 Paul Wilson

paul_wilson1After spending a few days of hard work ‘researching’ college football hotties I had #24, Gators WR Paul Wilson, as a solid top ten hottie. So what happened to Wilson to warrant such a precipitous drop in the SportsFags College Football Hottie Preview? …click here to read more

Tim Tebow – Gator QB

Tim Tebow, QB University of Florida.

Not many players evoke such a wide range of emotions at the mere mention of their name. Yet, there are those who absolutely luv Timmy and there are gator haters who would rather see him injured than suiting up against their team. What’s the catalyst behind the disparity?

It’s gotta be Tim’s passion for the game and your allegiance that determines where you fall on the Tebow pendulum, but make no mistake about it this guy’s a winner. Another factor behind the hatred could be ESPN’s over promoting Tebow during the college football season. They have a serious man crush on Tebow. Can you blame them?

This good christian boy loves big boobs that’s for sure.

HOLY COW!!!



Black boobs are OK too!

And black men?

OK, let’s get to some hot photos.




His boobs are bigger than hers.

This could be the hottest workout video I’ve ever seen for an athlete. I’m thinking the director really enjoyed editing this video. Skip over the first minute of this video to get to the good part.



5, 6, 7, 8…

Um, this is about the stupidest photo I’ve ever seen.









Young Timmy. Damn that boy put on some weight….


Man kiss from Harvin?
UPDATE: Much love to one of my readers who correctly pointed out this is Tony Joiner not Percy Harvin laying the man kiss on Tebow’s cheek.

This pledge is probably what’s he’s best known for after a loss to Ole Miss.