1/8/09

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Handicapper: John Ryan
Florida vs. Oklahoma (NCAAF) - 8:15 PM EST Premium Play
Pick: Point Spread: -4/-106 Florida Play Title: Florida
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Ai Simulator 15* graded play on the Florida Gators to win the National Championship Game

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Wild Bill


Oklahoma +3 1/2 (5 units)

Injuries are scaring me for the Sooners, however, you can't deny a club for a shot at the National title that scored over 50 points in 6 straight games and is capable of throwing the ball vs the Gator defense. Alabama did not show the offense that the Sooners will show Florida and it's time for the Sooner special teams and defense to pull out some heroics....Bradford & Gresham should hook up a few times in this one...Oklahoma 45 Florida 40...

Over 71 1/2 Fla-Oklahoma (5 units)

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Gina

Thursday, January 8
BCS Title: No. 1 Florida vs. No. 2 Oklahoma

Florida -3

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JOHNNY GUILD

Thursday, Jan. 6
BCS Title: No. 1 Florida vs. No. 2 Oklahoma

FLORIDA

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Doug Williams

Florida Gators (-4.5) OVER Oklahoma Sooners (+4.5) – This is a no-brainer. I love SEC defenses over Big 12 quarterbacks. Take a fired-up Tim Tebow and Florida's stifling D to win, beat the spread, and make you some bank. Florida is 10-2 ATS this season and 5-0 in their last 5 games. With the 3rd ranked offense and 4th ranked defense in the country, the Gators are an impressive unit that will steamroll the Sooners.

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FOOTBALL USA

Mon. Jan. 8th
FedEx BCS CHAMPIONSHIP GAME:
Florida Gators (12-1) vs. Oklahoma Sooners (12-1),

FLORIDA

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Sports Network

This Florida team has enough veterans on the squad that know what it is like to play in this type of atmosphere with everything on the line. Expect both teams to come out fired up, with several momentum swings early on. However, when things settle down. the old saying that "speed kills" will ring true, and overall team speed, including the all-important special teams, resides with the Gators.

Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Florida 36, Oklahoma 31

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Bruce Feldman
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Florida 38, Oklahoma 31: I think Florida's back seven will be as good as OU has seen all season and should be good enough to hold OU below 35 points for the first time this season. I expect Tim Tebow and the UF speed to hit on a few big plays and also to capitalize on a few mistakes from the Sooners' shaky kickoff coverage unit (105th in the nation).

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Phil Steele

Florida Gators

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Colin Cowherd

2-2 this bowl season

Florida Gators -3.5

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NATION-WIDE SPORTS PUBLICATIONS (Gold Sheet)


BCS TITLE GAME
OKLAHOMA (12-1) vs. FLORIDA (12-1)
Thursday, January 8 Night at Miami, FL (Grass Field)
*Florida 37 - Oklahoma 27—While the fatally-flawed BCS continues to court
controversy, it would be hard to argue that the convoluted system didn’t
produce a title game matchup this year that just about every college football fan
outside of Austin, Texas (and Salt Lake City?) can’t wait to see. And even a lot
of Longhorn & Ute fans are probably secretly looking forward to this clash of
one-loss juggernauts, a pair of torrid teams that have combined to cover 21 of
their 24 lined games this season. Oklahoma followed its setback to Red River
rival UT in early October with a stupefying display of offensive puissance down
the stretch, cracking the 60-point barrier in each of its last five games! And
2006 national champ Florida has been similarly dominant since its surprising
late-September home loss to Ole Miss, dragooning its next nine foes by an eyepopping
aggregate score of 445-117!
Would it be a shock if the underdog Sooners are able to ride their seeminglyunstoppable
offense (562 ypg) to a small upset? Hardly. Rarely have we seen
a college field general with more impressive control over an attack than OU’s
Heisman-winning QB Sam Bradford (48 TDP vs. only 6 ints.), who has the
receiving weapons & pass protection to torch the stoutest of stop units. Would
it be a big surprise if this game turns into an offensive shootout, with Bradford
and indomitable Gator QB Tim Tebow, the 2007 Heisman winner, trading points
in a last-team-with-the-ball-wins sort of scenario? Definitely not.
However, we believe that this game is likely to take a slightly different track.
It’s clear that the superior defense belongs to Florida, which has allowed more
than 21 points just once all season. Taking nothing away from the recordsetting
accomplishments of the Sooner offense, but OU is yet to run up against
any stop unit that has the overall talent and speed possessed by the Gators’
pugnacious platoon. Sure, even UF figures to have a tough time preventing the
balanced Sooner attack from moving the chains in the spacious middle of the
field. But converting yards into points might not come so easy for OU against
a Gator defense that has the quickness & depth up front to get some pressure
on Bradford and enough athleticism in the back 7 to blanket the Sooner
receivers in the tighter confines of the red zone. No, it’s actually Florida’s
offense—thanks to the relentless Tebow’s FB-like running near the goal line
and speedy WR/RB Percy Harvin’s nose for the end zone (he’s scored at least
one TD in each of his last 14 games and will be ready for action after sitting out
the SEC title game with a sprained ankle)—that will likely be most efficient at
cashing in drives for scores, giving the favored Gators a good shot at covering
the oddsmaker’s fair (although not insubstantial) impost.
(DNP...SR: FIRST MEETING)

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Scott Ferrall

FLORIDA -3 to Oklahoma (NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME)

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 8
Time Posted: 8:00 p.m. EST (12/16)
Game 267-268: Florida vs. Oklahoma
Dunkel Ratings: Florida 119.963; Oklahoma 122.950
Dunkel Line: Oklahoma by 3; 77
Vegas Line: Florida by 3; 72
Dunkel Pick: Oklahoma (+3); Over

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Big"reno"rick 100*star Lock Florida Gators-4-

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Street Rosenthal (Premium)

Fla -5

Under 70