College football announcers, fear not: Your worst day hasn’t come.

Tim Tebow is returning to college football.

“Overall, I just felt loyal to this place,” Tebow said. “I feel like I’m a role model, and a lot of times people start things and don’t finish them. I didn’t want to be like that. I wanted to be loyal to the university. I wanted to finish what I started and play another year.”

Translation: NFL scouts saw his accuracy in the BCS Championship game. Everyone’s telling me he’ll be a first round pick, but the only team dumb enough to select him then would be the Raiders, and they’ve got JaMarcus Russell, and “he’s a great player. Get over it.”