Toomers Corner After 2010 BCS National Championship

The Tradition of rolling Toomers corner in Auburn, Alabama after the Auburn Tigers win a football game has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. This is the celebration of all the fans who couldn't make it to Arizona to support the team, but instead showed the nation how proud they were of the team after everything they went through during the season,and got the chance to represent the University and the State in 2010's BCS National Championship. This video is the first hour and thirty minutes of Toomers Corner being rolled. I filmed until I ran out of memory in my camcorder. The celebration continued well into the night.



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George Steinbrenner Coached Ohio State Football With Woody Hayes & Won a National Championship

George Steinbrenner is famously known the world over as the owner of the New York Yankees but very few people realize that in the 1950s George Steinbrenner actually served as an assistant coach under legendary Buckeye icon Woody Hayes at Ohio State University (OSU for short). In fact, George was even part of the 1954 Ohio State national championship team that went undefeated.

The New York Yankees organization that Steinbrenner has owned for decades has been valued by Forbes magazine as a $1.5 billion organization which makes it one of the five most valuable sports teams in the world across all sports. Before making his fortune in the family shipping business he lived a somewhat pedestrian life that included college, a stint in the Air Force, marriage, and a brief spell as an assistant football coach at Ohio State. In some regards George Steinbrenner has had an almost Forest Gump type life that has involved playing on his college football team, joining the armed forces, falling in love, making a fortune, numerous chance encounters with historically iconic figures, and a variety of unique business ventures.

Born in Rocky River, Ohio on the northern edge of the state the area that is now an affluent suburb of Cleveland is the area where George grew up before attending a military school in northern Indiana. After graduating from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1952 and spending a couple of years in the Air Force based in Columbus, Ohio at Lockbourne Air Force Base the Ohio native decided to stay in the area following his honorable discharge in 1954. Over the next two years Steinbrenner earned a master's degree in physical education from nearby Ohio State University.

While doing graduate work at Ohio State George Steinbrenner signed on to help the football team as a graduate assistant where he happened to coach under legendary college football coach Woody Hayes. During the one season that George was with the Buckeyes the team went undefeated with a perfect 10-0 record that included a 20-7 Rose Bowl victory over the University of Southern California (USC) on January 1, 1955.

By capping off a perfect season with a sound Rose Bowl victory Woody Hayes, George Steinbrenner, and the rest of the Ohio State Buckeyes edged out number two ranked UCLA to capture the second football national championship for the Buckeyes ever. In addition to the seven World Series victories (1977, 1978, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2009) that George Steinbrenner has been a part of as an owner of the New York Yankees since January 3, 1973 the man who was born back on July 4, 1930 can also claim a college football national championship from the 1954 season with iconic College Football Hall of Fame coach Woody Hayes.

UAB Ethics Bowl Team Wins National Championship

BlazerCast for March 15, 2010: The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Ethics Bowl Team has won the national championship. The five-member, UAB team competed against 31 colleges and universities at the National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl held March 4 in Cincinnati, debating some of today's most difficult ethical issues. They defeated the 2009 national champion Indiana University and the 2008 semifinalist Westminster College to win, along with teams from the University of California Santa Cruz, Carleton College and Weber State University. For more information, please visit: www.uab.edu Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Become a fan of BlazerCast on Facebook: bit.ly



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BCS National Championship Game - Florida vs Oklahoma

Between them, they have won 9 National Championships. Coaches for both teams are considered the best in college football. Bob Stoops coached OU to a 12-0 record in 2000 which culminated with a 13-2 win over Florida State in the Orange Bowl. It was only Stoop' second year with Sooners and he had already guided them to a National Championship. Urban Meyer spurned Notre Dame to become head coach at Florida in 2005. Just like Stoops, his second year ended with the Gators securing the National Championship. An added amount of intrigue about this BCS title game is the fact that Stoops was the defensive coordinator for Florida before leaving for Oklahoma.

Oklahoma got into the title game by beating Missouri 62-21 in the Big 12 conference title game. No one debated who was the better team in that game, but some people wondered whether Texas should have been playing instead of OU because of a late season jump in the BCS rankings. Nevertheless, no one questions Oklahoma's talent. The Sooners set a modern-day NCAA record, scoring 702 points this season. Quarterback Sam Bradford led this prolific offense throwing for 48 touchdowns, the most in college football this season. And for that, he won the Heisman Trophy(college football's award for the best player). The Sooners won 11 games and lost one. That one loss is the reason for the controversy as it was to Texas, the team they jumped in the rankings.

Florida got into this game by beating Alabama 31-20 in the SEC Championship game behind their Quarterback Tim Tebow's heroics. Tebow, who won last year's Heisman award, threw for three touchdowns in the game against previously unbeaten Alabama. Although Oklahoma owns the most prolific scoring offense in the country, Florida isn't far behind in the rankings at 3rd. Along with their high-ranked offense, they own the 5th-ranked defense in the country. The challenge for Florida will be for their strong defense to limit the explosive Oklahoma offense.

The BCS National Championship is the defacto championship game for the college football championship in the US. And although the winner of this game is considered by most to be the best that year, the title is not sanctioned by college sports governing body, the NCAA. But the BCS is not without controversy. Every year since its inception, it has attempted to identify the best college teams and proclaim a winner. However, the process of choosing the teams to play in the title game has its detractors.

At the end of the regular season, the top two teams in the BCS rankings are pitted against each other. But the criteria used to rank the teams is heavily criticized. As a result, even when the #1 and #2 teams meet, some people will question whether or not they were the right teams. More and more people(including US President-elect Obama) have called for scrapping the BCS system and installing a playoff system.