Reasons that this is more like Florida vs Nebraska:

1) Bradford is the best qb ever in college football
2) The SEC is overrated. OU isnt Mississippi...LSU....or Georgia
3) Florida lost its signal caller and will be distracted
4) OU has problems with qbs that improvise and run fast. Tebull has mostly set running plays...option like (we kill teams that run the option) and Tebull isnt that fast..just big. Pretty sure tackling him wont be tough as catching mccoy, robinson, or griffin.
5) WE SCORE 60 pts a game you joker!

I think that Florida should be favored over OU. Why? Answer: Florida is a better defensive football team than OU is. While OU gives up 24 points per game, Florida gives up only about 12 points per game. In the two biggest games of the year, OU gave up a combined 86 points to Texas and OSU. In Florida's two biggest games, they gave up a combined 30 points to Georgia and Alabama. Florida has better offensive talent than Texas and OSU. In addition, this is a very good defense that OU will be facing. If OU cannot slow down those two teams (Texas and OSU), Boise State, West Virginia, and Kansas State, how can they slow down Florida's offense? In their past three BCS bowl games, OU has given up a combined 146 points. That's nearly 50 points per game. Sure, OU will be able to score some points, but, the team with the better defense wins the game. Because Florida has played better defense than OU this season, you have to give Florida about a two-touchdown edge. I do root for OU Football and hope they win; however, based on OU's defensive performance this season and in previous BCS bowl games, Florida should most definitely be favored over OU.

Eric, bet you don't score 60 this night. Your a fool!!!

I guess you could have said "anything is possible, or I have no clue or my conclusions add up to zero." What does coach Jones think?
The truth will shine through or around or under or something.
There might might be a little light around McCoy and the D ends.
Robinson and Daniel ran around a lot when nothing was open.
I believe I heard a lot about the OU D couldn't contain a mobil quarterback.
Tebow is not a good passing quarterback.
He can run around all day looking good. OU will take the ball down the field.
The Gators will throw everthing at Bradford in the 1st Qtr. He may be shaky, BUT he will settle down and Forida will die with man to man.
The running game will start to open up a bit (also shaky in the beginning).
Tebow will run around looking good.
You will write a column stating "Tebow ran OU silly, Venables should be fired. Oklahoma was just plain lucky to win that game."

Reason for optimism: OU's D is under-rated. Maybe not great (or as great as they should be), but they've been okay in games where Special Teams have held together. D is taking a lot of abuse for the sins of Special Teams.

Reason for pessimism: No reason to think Special Teams will hold it together.

How good is Florida's defense? Who the heck knows. Let them play UT or Tech or OSU or Kansas or Mizzou or even Cincy and see how good it is. ESPN tells me that USC has the best defense in the country. Yea, they really shut down the offensive powerhouses out west. Seriously, how good would OU's D be (or be considered) if they played a Pac-10 slate. OR...Would OU give up more than 20 against Bama? Probably. Would they score more than 31? More than likely.

Comparing conference strengths is alchemy. Who's better, Nebraska or Ole Miss? WHO CARES? That has no relevance to OU/Florida.

Wasn't OU star runner Murray hurt returning a kickoff?

Why would anybody ever put the best runner in to return kicks?

It's target practice.

Does the staff get a pass for losing its best runner on kick return duty against a bum?

The question was: Was it the best of ideas to have your best runner returning kicks against a bum?

He wasn't returning kicks early in the year.

Murray is not a durable back. That is the way it is. All the talent in the world, but tends to be fragile.
Gee coach, I think we should hold Murray out. He might be injured sometime in the future. Well gosh, Let's hold Bradford out too. Well,how about Box and Reynolds?
OU 45- Gators 35. That would seem to solve a lot of conversation.

Didn't OU have Adrian Peterson returning kicks? Mr.Picker, here's a clue just so you'll know...at Stoopsville, they try to put the players that give them the best chance of winning...on the field. Simple. Not hard to understand.

Defense wins championships, unless of course, you outscore that particular defense, comprende?

I know you were trying really hard to figure out a way to blame Venables for Murry's injury, but I see you've already pointed your claw at 'the staff'. Perhaps an 'all inclusive' house cleaning would suit you?

Yeah, typical picker 'ville. Gets called out and called down and starts deleting truth. Last time I post to the Green Nugget Picker.

Do any other teams have their number one runners running back kicks against bums?

Is the OU staff capable of doing anything wrong?

Do you think you will see again, once, ever, the number one running back returning kicks at OU?

Let's lose the hindsight and focus on Florida.

Which isn't Missouri.

Moving on to Florida. I am in a bowl contest with some buddies (for fun only...smirk). I have taken Florida -3.5 on the main sheet. I may take OU on the other sheet, but maybe not. I think that Florida is the most talented and complete team in the country this year. Oklahoma is probably somewhere between 2 and 4. The Gators have the edge on special teams, and it's a big edge. We can argue which team has the better offense, defense, coaches, etc...but these are all pretty close. I think the Gators massive edge on special teams will be the difference. I see the game playing out much like OU-UT earlier this year. Florida will come up with the plays in the 4th quarter to win it. OU will need to be +2 in turnovers to win and not give up a big return. Hope I am wrong...

Punt, punk, little difference.