Fiesta Bowl 2010: Did The Oklahoma Sooners Prove Anything?

The drought is over. After losing five consecutive BCS games (including three National Championships), the Oklahoma Sooners broke their streak by defeating the Connecticut Huskies 48-20 Saturday night in the Fiesta Bowl.

Sooner Nation is celebrating, but let's face it, UConn is a horrific excuse for a college football team, adding to my case I made yesterday about how bad the Big East is.

When your conference champion finishes the regular season 8-4 with a loss at Rutgers, that's pretty bad. Oklahoma can celebrate with its trophy, but did it really do anything to earn it on Saturday during that nationally televised scrimmage?

The UConn Huskies are a team that would have been lucky to finish fourth overall in Conference USA, behind Central Florida, Tulsa and Southern Miss. Hell, maybe even fifth behind the SMU Pony Express.

Here are five more teams that are better than UConn:

1. Tulsa (Okla.) Union High School, 6A State Champs
2. Wyoming Cowboys, last place in the Mountain West Conference
3. Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils, the only NCAA Division I team to finish without a win during the 2010 season.
4. Any team Matt Millen put together
5. Mike Haywood's 2009 Miami RedHawks (1-11)

On top of that, the Sooners did a great job shutting down quite possibly the worst starting quarterback in all of FBS in Zach Frazer. Frazer entered the Fiesta Bowl with only 1,202 yards passing, five touchdowns and four interceptions, along with a completion percentage of 52.7.

Frazer lived up to the hype for the Huskies, completing 19 of 39 passes against Oklahoma for 22 yards (5.7 yards per completion), no touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

UConn finished the night without a single offensive touchdown. And no, it's not because the Oklahoma defense is that good, it's because the Huskies' offense is that bad. UConn has now gone two consecutive games without an offensive touchdown. The last one the Huskies scored was just over halfway through the fourth quarter of their 38-17 victory over Cincinnati (4-7) on Nov. 27.

So how about five quarterbacks better than UConn's Frazer:

1. Ronnie "Sunshine" Bass
2. Shane Falco
3. Matt Saracen
4. Rifleman
5. Paul Crewe (the Adam Sandler version)

So yeah, congratulations Oklahoma, for proving absolutely nothing beyond the fact the Big East should stick to basketball and nothing else.

Can anyone else think of any teams or quarterbacks better than UConn and Frazer?