I guess anything’s possible, even the Jesus-like saint letting a woman sit in his lap out of wedlock. This could be just another girl, but that smile on Tebow’s face implies otherwise. All this picture reminds me of is how perfect Tebow’s life is, and how bad mine is. Asshole.

[Deadspin]

Lane Kiffin has been one to — how should I best put it? — pop off at the mouth since he joined UT. He said he was going to beat Florida. He accused Urban Meyer of cheating. He stole two of UF’s players, and then accused Meyer of cheating. And then he accused Urban Meyer of cheating.

Am I getting repetitive?

Urban Meyer hasn’t forgotten about being called out for lousy cheater that he is, and he’s making it clear that he’s going to do his talking on the field this September. His players, too.

“I couldn’t believe what he said,” Florida junior safety Ahmad Black said Monday. “Not trying to be cocky or anything, but we’ve beaten them four years in a row … by a lot, too. But taking shots at our coach is like taking shots at us. We’re family. It’s definitely personal now.”

“That’s OK, because they’ve got something coming,” Florida center Maurkice Pouncey said Monday. “[Kiffin] went public with all his stuff, but we’ll do all our talking on the field. That’s when we’ll have something to say about it.”

Oh, and Florida has pictuers of Kiffin everywhere, reminding them of what a prick he is and how badly they want to kill him. Kiffin’s response when he found this out?

“First, I think it’s a neat thing that Tennessee’s logo is all over Florida’s locker room,” Kiffin said, smiling, during an interview Tuesday morning with “ESPN First Take.”

“We have great respect for Florida and Urban Meyer and what they’ve done there,” he continued. “It’s a big-time place and big-time program. I don’t think bulletin-board material makes a difference.”

We can say what we want about Kiffin. But the bottom line is that he just made this game worth watching again.

[ESPN]

[AJC]

UPDATE: Kiffin says he’s done apologizing, according to the AJC. He said he’s already apologized to the university and to Coach Meyer, and the entire thing has been blown out of proportion. You can read the full story at the link above, but like I said: This makes this series matter again.

This is probably just another one chalked up to Tim Tebow and his influence over everyone and everything. Florida is on the verge of being the most annoying school in division one football, but I’ll take celebrations like this each time a team wins a national title. Hopefully Georgia Tech doesn’t win it all any time soon…. (If you’ve ever been to a game there, you know what I’m talking about.)

If you haven’t heard it, here it is. If you thought you couldn’t handle any more talk of Tim Tebow and how great he is and how he can turn water into wine and walk on either…. well, prepare yourself. Because he’s back, and we’ve got Youtube to prove it.

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.”

As an SEC/ACC guy — hey, I’m in the Southeast and I like UT and Georgia Tech — I don’t pretend to know a whole lot about the Big 12. I know of Graham Harrell, know Sam Bradford, know Colt McCoy (and his girlfriend). I also know there’s not a single team in the Big 12 that plays defense. Not a single one. A quote from Dominique Franks, second team all-Big 12 corner who doesn’t fear Tim Tebow on his best day.

Franks said Tebow, who is already miffed he finished third in Heisman voting last month, ranks behind Sooners teammate and Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford, Texas’ Colt McCoy and Texas Tech’s Graham Harrell. Franks added that preparing for McCoy and Harrell was tougher than getting ready to face the 6-foot-3, 240-pound Tebow.

“If you look at the three best quarterbacks in the country, (they) came from the Big 12,” Franks said. “The three best receivers in the country came from the Big 12. The three best tight ends came from the Big 12. So we’ve faced some great offenses, and a lot of people don’t understand that other conferences don’t have what we face.”

I understand this guy’s point. On paper, the three best quarterbacks did come from the Big 12. But one of those best quarterbacks (Graham Harrell) just played the fourth best SEC team (Ole Miss), and he looked rather pedestrian.

I won’t go out on a limb and say Florida will win this game handedly, but I will go way the hell out on a limb and say Florida will win this game handedly.

After Florida won and Oklahoma hung 60 again, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion, but with the BCS you never know when they’ll piss off a fan base. It’s gonna be Florida/Oklahoma for all the marbles, even though I am hearing that if Alabama blows out Utah, Texas blows out Ohio State, and USC blows out Penn State, things could get a bit dicey.

It’s funny, because the BCS was created to have one National Champ, and this year we might end up with 12 of them.

Most of my friends, who are all largely sports experts, are predicting Oklahoma in a shootout. This game feels kind of like that Florida/Ohio State game a few years back, when Ohio State had the great quarterback, the great offense that couldn’t be stopped, and beat a Michigan team that was thought to be the second best in the nation.

Well, we know how that story ends, with Ohio State getting killed and Troy Smith leaving the field never the same man again.

Both didn’t have much of an outter conference schedule, but the nod would have to go to Florida, who played Miami and Florida State, over Oklahoma, who just played Cincinnati.

If you’re an Oklahoma fan, there’s one thing that has to worry you: You’re only tough road game came against Oklahoma State, who put 41 points on the board. I don’t mean to be the bearer of bad news, but if Florida hangs 41 — which I’m guessing they will — that defense won’t give up 60.

It isn’t often these days good players in college hang around all four years, but that appears to be the case for Colt McCoy, the Texas Heisman hopeful that has announced he’ll be coming back for his senior year.

“I’m not going anywhere,” McCoy told the newspaper.

“I’m coming back because we have a solid coaching staff,” McCoy said. “And I’m coming back because I feel like I can develop the young receivers we have.”

If he does indeed return, it’ll be a showdown between him and Tim Tebow for the Heisman (my guess Tim, not being an NFL quarterback, will probably come back for his final season). I guess when you’ve got a girlfriend that looks like this, the NFL can wait a minute.

There’s always the playoff-playoff-playoff talk in college football, and I couldn’t agree more with this idea. I thought Auburn to snubbed years ago when Oklahoma played USC instead, and I can’t say at the end of each year that the team that won it wouldn’t have lost to any other team in the nation (take the NFL, for example, where last year’s Wild Card Giants went on to one of the biggest Super Bowl upsets of all time; no one called them at the beginning, and no one even gave them a shot once they got there).

Anway, I wanted to go to the BCS standings and see what a college playoff would look like at this point. If there was a playoff, the most popular idea I’ve heard is taking the top eight teams. If that was the case, this is the first round matchups we’d be watching.

#8 Utah vs #1 Alabama: This is the one game I don’t salivate over, because we know the outcome of this one. Oklahoma State is a close No. 9, though, and by the end of their regular season they’d surely jump.

#7 USC vs #2 Texas Tech: Are you telling me you wouldn’t want to see this offensive battle? It’d be pretty humorous to see Vegas set the over/under at 90.

#6 Oklahoma vs #3 Penn State: This would be your first round “upset,” if you could call it that. Penn State has played well, but they just don’t have the firepower to stick with Oklahoma.

#5 Florida vs #4 Texas: Are you kidding me? And this is only the first round…

The best thing about this system? No Ohio State, which means the games should at least be competitive.

It’s not even smack talk, really. But the media and papers love to blow a situation like this out of shape, so I figure I’ll do the same.

With the Florida/LSU game looming this weekend, and possible National Title hopes on the line (for LSU, anyway; you generally kiss away any hopes of that when you lose to Ole’ Miss), what’s at stake isn’t enough. So now some LSU guys are talking, and they’re saying if they get a shot at Tim Tebow, they’re taking him out.

And Tebow thought circumsizing small children in other countries looked painful.