Texas, Don't Even Show Up: Alabama Is Already the National Champion

Is it just me or does the BCS title game remind you of the Super Bowl?

I mean, both games usually involve the two best teams in their respective sport. There is a lot of hype, previews, and predictions before the game. And oh, how could I forget the long layoff between the teams’ final games and the championship game.

And in all the time college football enthusiasts and prognosticators have had to dissect the Alabama-Texas matchup, there seems to be an overwhelming feeling that Alabama will wipe the floor with Colt McCoy’s Longhorns.

After all, Alabama routed the celebrated Tim Tebow and company in the SEC championship, while Texas escaped a dominant performance by Ndamukong Suh and a lackluster performance by McCoy which almost ended a second too soon.

Alabama has a coach who was already won a national championship (at LSU), a Heisman-winning running back in Mark Ingram, and defensive stalwarts like Rolando McClain and Terrence Cody.

But last I checked, this game didn’t have as much disparity in terms of talent as other sports bouts in the past. This isn’t Bears v. Patriots in Super Bowl XX. It’s not Secretariat against the field in the Belmont. It’s the Crimson Tide against a Longhorns team which has gone undefeated.

And don’t we all remember the last time Texas was perceived as the underdog in a national championship game?

There was that one player … Vince something. Texas was playing some team with two Heisman winners. I think they were located in California.

And then there was that one play — a play that arguably changed college football forever. A run in the waning seconds (again by that Vince guy) to win the game and bring confetti showers across all of Pasadena. It gave underdogs hope and went down in infamy as one of the greatest sports games ever played.

But no, that can’t happen again — at least not according to the general public outside of the Lone Star state. Or can it?

When you have a quarterback like McCoy and a coach like Mack Brown, nothing should ever be overlooked.

Brown isn’t being paid five million dollars to lie down in his sport’s biggest showcase. McCoy and teammate Jordan Shipley also want to go out as heroes in their last collegiate game and sing “Texas Fight” at the top of their lungs. A Texas win would also put the Longhorns on the same pedestal as Florida with two national titles in the last five years.

Nah. That’ll never happen.