#2 LSU Upsets #1 OSU 38-24 And Wins The Allstate BCS Championship Game.

First, I'm impressed by Ohio State's running attack. Chris Wells' 65 yard rush for a touchdown to start off the game was amazing. Unfortunately for Ohio State, this is the only highlight worth mentioning.

LSU entered this game as the first two-loss team to play in a BCS title game. That's not a good thing. The Tigers are here because they hit the BCS lotto: They squeezed past Tennessee in the SEC championship, Oklahoma beat then-No. 1 Missouri in the Big 12 championship and Pittsburgh upset then-No. 2 West Virginia in Morgantown.

LSU (11-2) was trying to win its second BCS title in five seasons, on the very same Superdome where the last one came. The Tigers, who defeated Oklahoma in the 2004 title game but had to share the championship with Southern Cal, were looking to win one that no one could dispute

With much less star power, Ohio State made it to the championship game for the second year in a row, this time as an underdog despite the No. 1 ranking.

This game was all about Louisiana State. They came into this game being favored to win by 3 1/2 points and after getting off to a painfully slow start in which they were down by 10, LSU's trick plays and receivers taking advantage of blown coverage put them on a scoring rampage. No. 2 LSU danced, dodged and darted its way into the end zone Monday night, turning the BCS national championship game into a horrible replay for No. 1 Ohio State. It was over early, with Matt Flynn throwing four touchdown passes in a 38-24 win..

After falling behind 10-0 in the early going, LSU responded with 24 unanswered points to take a halftime lead.

Matt Flynn was absolutely incredible, throwing for 174 yards and 4 touchdowns. His only mistake was giving up 1 interception, which allowed a glimmer of hope for OSU. However, that hope was quickly taken away as LSU added more points on the scoreboard. Matt Flynn won the offensive MVP of the game with a career high 4 touchdown tosses. What perfect timing to throw for a career high in touchdowns in one game than the BCS game.

Why was Ohio State ranked #1 when America's vote and the spread clearly favored LSU. I have no idea, but OSU didn't play like a #1 seed this game. This is the second year in a row that OSU has been defeated badly in the BCS Championship game and I can bet they won't be appearing in the BCS Bowl game anytime soon. In a season of surprises, this was hardly an upset: Ohio State once again fell apart in college football's biggest game. A year after the Buckeyes were routed by Tim Tebow and Florida 41-14 in the Arizona desert, they barely did better.

You have to admire OSU's persistence however. They played the game out all the way to the end, rushing for a touchdown with 1:13 left in the 4th quarter. They wanted to make the score at least look respectable.

Yet while LSU got to hoist the $30,000 crystal trophy, certainly many fans around the country were peering into their crystal balls, wondering if someone else was worthy of the title. Southern California, Georgia, West Virginia, Kansas and Missouri all put on impressive shows in bowl games, and will be among the favorites in 2008.

LSU became just the fourth favorite to win in 10 BCS championship games. Coach Les Miles probably got a little extra satisfaction, too. Though he turned down a chance to return home to Michigan, he did something his alma mater hasn't done recently -- beat the Buckeyes.

The loss left Ohio State at 0-9 overall in bowl games against teams from the Southeastern Conference. The SEC delights in whipping Big Ten teams in what's become a rivalry that steams up fans on both sides.

And The Winner Of The Heisman Trophy Is......Tim Tebow

According to ESPN:

The Heisman Trophy has been handed out every year since 1935 and all the winners have been either juniors or seniors.

Florida sophomore Tim Tebow broke that trend and scored one for college football's underclassmen.

Off And Running

Florida QB Tim Tebow is the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy in the 72 years of the award. Tebow's 22 rushing touchdowns are tied for the FBS record for rushing touchdowns in a season by a quarterback. (Air Force's Chase Harridge also had 22 in 2002.)

Most Rushing TDs in 2007
Bowl Subdivision QBs

QB, School	TDs
Tim Tebow, Florida	22
Dan LeFevour, Central Michigan	17
Pat White, West Virginia	14

The charismatic and multitalented quarterback, who has already had a season like no other in major college football history, became the first sophomore to win the award on Saturday night.

Arkansas running back Darren McFadden, last year's Heisman runner-up, Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan and Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel were the other finalists.

Conventional wisdom suggested Tebow's class status would have left him at a disadvantage against three upperclassmen, but Heisman voters have warmed to the idea of voting for underclassmen over the years.

"I'm still a college football player," Tebow said Friday to a gathering of reporters at a hotel in Manhattan. "It doesn't matter what year you are."

For decades, underclassmen were an afterthought at Heisman time.

After SMU sophomore tailback Doak Walker finished third in the Heisman voting in 1947, the next underclassmen to break the top three was Georgia's Herschel Walker, who finished third as a freshman in 1980 and second as a sophomore before winning it as a junior in '82.

During most of those 35 seasons, freshmen were ineligible to play.

"Sophomores in the past, such as a deserving Doak Walker in '47, for example, weren't given proper consideration because freshmen weren't eligible, and there was an obvious prejudice against youth," author and sports writer Dan Jenkins, who is the historian for the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame, wrote in an e-mail to the AP. "Better to vote for somebody who had done more to 'deserve' it rather than a one-season guy."

After Herschel Walker, it was another 10 years before an underclassman made a serious run at the Heisman. In 1992, San Diego State sophomore Marshall Faulk finished second to Miami quarterback Gino Torretta.

Since then, the combination of scholarship limitations in big-time college football and early departures to the NFL have given underclassmen more opportunities to play. As a result, more have become Heisman contenders.

"Sophomores today, having played as freshmen, are what juniors used to be," Jenkins wrote.

Michael Vick was a redshirt freshman for Virginia Tech in 1999, when he finished third. Florida quarterback Rex Grossman was the runner-up to Nebraska's Eric Crouch as a sophomore in 2001. Two years later, Pittsburgh wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald was a sophomore when he finished second to Oklahoma's Jason White.

Oklahoma's Adrian Peterson became the first freshman to be the Heisman runner-up in 2004 and last year McFadden was a sophomore when he finished second to Ohio State's Troy Smith.

Now here comes Tebow, already a folk hero in Gainesville, Fla., with a chance to become the third Florida Heisman winner, joining Steve Spurrier (1966) and Danny Wuerffel (1996), and do something no college football player has ever done -- for the second time this year.

Tebow visited New York for the first time with his parents and four siblings, including his sister, Christy Allen, who has been doing missionary work in Bangladesh and only found out Thursday she could make the trip.

Tebow exceeded the monumental expectations placed on him by adoring Gators fans in his first season as a starter. He became the first player to run for 20 touchdowns and throw 20 touchdown passes in the same season. He accounted for 51 TDs overall, including a Southeastern Conference-record 22 on the ground.

The 235-pound Tebow showed what he could do running the ball last season as a part-time player, complementing senior quarterback Chris Leak and helping Florida win the national title.

This season, in full control of Urban Meyer's spread offense, Tebow has left no doubt he's more than just a bruiser. Tebow is second in the country in passer rating (177.9), with 3,132 yards and 29 touchdown passes.

Who Should Win The College Heisman Trophy?

The five finalists who will be invited to New York for the Heisman Trophy presentation will be announced on SportsCenter tonight at 6 ET, but here is a list of obvious choices now.

Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, who could become the first underclassman to win the award emblematic of college football's best player, is expected to be among the five finalists. So is Arkansas running back Darren McFadden, who was the runner-up to Heisman winner Troy Smith of Ohio State in 2006.

Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan has also been invited to the trophy presentation, said his coach, June Jones, according to the Honolulu Advertiser.

According to Missouri coach Gary Pinkel, junior quarterback Chase Daniel is a finalist for Saturday's announcement. The Kansas City Star reported that Pinkel revealed the news in a conference call with the Mizzou Tiger Club of St. Louis.

Other possible candidates include quarterbacks Pat White of West Virginia, Dennis Dixon of Oregon, Matt Ryan of Boston College and Sam Bradford of Oklahoma, and running back Kevin Smith of Central Florida, who leads the nation in rushing and needs 181 yards to break Barry Sanders' NCAA single-season rushing record.

The links to the players' stats are all there so you can check them out yourself, but let me point out the obvious favorite, Tim Tebow. He deserves this award in my opinion. Tebow became the first player in NCAA history (and that's a long history) to run for at least 20 touchdowns (29) and pass for at least 20 touchdowns (22) in the same season. He eclipsed the school's single-season record for total offense with 3,970 yards, and he broke the Southeastern Conference's single-season record for rushing touchdowns.

My runner up choice would be Colt Brennan because he led Hawaii to an undefeated regular season and a BCS bowl bid and holds the single-season and career NCAA records for most touchdown passes. AND I still believe going undefeated (despite the strength of schedule) earns you the right to play in the big BCS Bowl. What more can you do?