College FB Roundup: It's Great To Be a Florida Gator

There's a popular saying in Gainesville, Florida:

"If you ain't a Gator, you must be Gatorbait!"

These days, nothing could be more true.

Gators Past have won four national championships in the last 11 years in the two major collegiate sports—basketball and football.

Gators Present boast a football team that's better than last year's BCS title-winners.

And Gators Future?

Next year's team looks to be even more dangerous than this year's model—and given Urban Meyer's recruiting skills, there's no reason to think UF is going anywhere but up.

There's also no reason to believe Urban will leave Florida. He has no desire to coach in the NFL—and come on, he already passed on Notre Dame once.

What makes you think he'd leave Gainesville to rebuild that mess of a program?

Speaking of Notre Dame, is there anyone in America who believes that Meyer would be 0-3 right now if he were leading the Fighting Irish?

I guess the Weis-Meyer debate has been resolved.

Tim Tebow, meanwhile, is proving that the hype was warranted—and he's only started three games. Imagine how much better he'll be once he gets some experience.

And remember that game last week against Tennessee? The one where the Gators scored 59 points and held the Tennessee offense to only 13?

Well, Florida was without their best WR, and lost their best CB early in the game to injury.

Do you believe LSU would be as dominant without Early Doucet and Chevis Jackson? Personally, I don't.

Time will tell, though, as Doucet got injured in a walk-through practice session and could possibly miss the Tigers' October 6th showdown with the Gators.

In the SEC, there's one team that can score on LSU and one team that can slow down Florida. I'm not sure which is more true, and the there's a lot of football still to be played, so I'm not going to make my official prediction yet.  

One thing I am sure of, though:

It's great to be a Florida Gator.

Random Thoughts

- There are four teams who are worthy of playing in the Sugar Bowl at this point in the season: USC, Florida, LSU, and Oklahoma. West Virginia, go undefeated with some dominant defensive games and I'll change my mind.

- It's hard to say whether Virginia Tech and Nebraska are overrated or LSU and USC are just that good. I'm leaning towards overrated.

- The higher-ups at Notre Dame are beyond nervous. They flat-out made the wrong decision by firing Tyrone Willingham—and are paying the price for it.

- C.J. Spiller, Noel Divine, Joe McKnight, Chris Rainey—there are going to be some good RBs playing on Sundays in a few years. We have a couple more years to watch them play with passion in college. Let's enjoy it.

- If Les Miles leaves for Michigan and Phil Fulmer is forced out at Tennessee, which school will be able to pull Steve Spurrier away from South Carolina? My bet would be LSU, if either. The talent may be too tempting for Spurrier to continue struggling at South Carolina. I don't think any of those scenarios are likely to happen, personally.

- Tim Tebow is quickly moving his way up the Heisman list.