The BCS Championship Game in Miami, Florida will host the No. 2 Florida Gators (12-1 overall, 7-1 SEC) from the Southeastern Conference and the No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners (12-1 overall, 7-1 Big 12) from the Big 12 Conference. The game is scheduled for January 8 at 8:00 p.m. and will be televised live on FOX. These teams will be meeting for the first time.

College football fans couldn’t have asked for a better national championship game. Not only are the champions from the two best fan-supported conferences playing against each other, but for the second time in history we will see two Heisman Trophy winners play each other for a National Title (Leinart and White were the first back in 2005). Tim Tebow and Sam Bradford are two of the best quarterbacks in college football.

The Florida Gators are favored in the game by 3 points. It’s not often we see a No. 2 ranked team favored over a No. 1 ranked team in a championship game. This might be because the game is played in Florida, and the Gators are counting on having a huge home-field advantage.

“I hope it’s a home-field advantage,” Meyer said. “I’d be disappointed if it wasn’t a tremendous showing (by Gators fans), but I know Oklahoma has a great tradition of traveling fans as well. In the back of our minds, even in the front of some of our minds, this was our target to get to Miami — because it’s our home state, because of recruiting, because of all of the above.”

Both teams feature high powered offenses; Oklahoma has scored over 60 points five games in a row. It will be interesting to see if either team will show up on defense. If both teams get rolling in the first quarter we could see a high scoring game with both teams trading shots.

A quick note about the game from ESPN:

Loosen up the old necks, because the BCS National Championship Game between Florida and Oklahoma might look more like a NASCAR race than a football game. The Gators (12-1) have averaged 49.4 points during their nine-game winning streak, and nobody has come within single digits of them since their 31-30 loss to Ole Miss on Sept. 27. The Sooners (12-1) have scored 61 or more points in their past five games, and their closest call during their seven-game winning streak was 14 points. — Chris Low

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The Oklahoma Sooners and Florida Gators both won their respective conference championship games on Saturday. Last night during the BCS Selection show on FOX, it was announced that the Gators and Sooners will be playing in the BCS National Championship game on January 8, 2009. It doesn’t get any more exciting for fans of these schools.

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