A lot of people are calling this a 'hollow championship' for AL because they didn't face a full TX team (with McCoy being out)....I say tough shit. Would it be any more hollow if Ingram had been knocked out on his first run? Or if (yes, I'll play the Tebow card) FLA had been in the NC and lost Tebow? No, everyone would have said "suck it up, it's part of the game". Me? Yes, I wanted AL to win, as an admitted SEC homer I wanted them to beat TX (so the SEC retains the crown) and beat them badly enough for UF to move into 2nd in the rankings. Well, considering how well TX came back with their freshman QB I can accept that they definitely provided a better team against AL than UF did, and I will not blink a bit about putting TX 2nd ahead of UF. Will I go far enough to carry the bitch that had McCoy played the whole game then TX would have won? No, I won't carry it that far, though I'm sure TX fans (and all the AL haters, and SEC haters to some degree) would state that the closeness of the game would have been more than made up by McCoy's presence - but without having played him in the whole game, I'm not willing to take that as 'fact', since I believe the AL defense would have remained as strong as it was. Maybe TX would have won with McCoy, maybe they wouldn't. Fact is, he started, but they didn't win. Fact is AL won, both in score and in the play of the game for those who watched it. I'm okay with this outcome. SEC homerism aside, I'd have been okay with the outcome if McCoy had remained and TX has won - so long as the best team won, which I believe is what happened. And the second best team lost. The third best team? Maybe FLA, maybe not, but the drop off between 2 and anyone at 3 is very noticeable.