PUNT-IFICATING

Walters' First Rule of Football Coaching is...NEVER EVER EVER EVEr EVER NEVER burn a timeout in the 3rd quarter. Not ever. I would add that you especially should not call timeout in a game that is tied. And even more emphatically I would say not to waste one in the 3rd quarter of a tie game for the national championship.

Oklahoma and Florida just burned one apiece in the 3rd quarter. On the same play. A punt. I've never seen that. After all that stategery, we all just wanted something dramatic to occur on that punt. And it did. The Gators roughed the punter. But, four plays later and with far less drama, OU punted again.

By the way, I'm still waiting upon a Walters' Second Rule of Football Coaching....

I'm watching Bob Stoops and he's agitated. Again. He's been agitatin' all evening.

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Tim Tebow tossed two interceptions in 13 games this season, in 268 pass attempts. Tim Tebow tossed two interceptions in the first half this evening, in 17 attempts.

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The Gators became the first Sooner foe to score first this year. Then again, the team scoring first has lost the last four BCS title games.

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Someone somewhere is wondering why Louis Murphy was flagged 15 yards for unsportsmanlike (and, hey, can we get a shorter word for that term, please?) conduct when, after catching a pass for a first down in the opening half he imitated a referee's first down signal, yet when Tebow just ran for a first, got up, punched a fist and exhorted the crowd, there was no flag. Someone somewhere is wondering about that. Maybe someone very close to this 'puter.