Introducing the Florida Championship

[Brad]

Some interesting pregame reading for state of Florida football fans:

 

Introducing the Florida Championship

By Tim Williams -

August 31, 2018

Maybe the most enduring quality of college sports, the thing more than anything else that gets people coming back through all the coaching changes and all of the scandals, is the institution’s penchant for local rivalries.

Throughout college sports, there are regional trophies and championships to be had.  College basketball has early season tournaments that, at bare minimum, enhance rivalries between conferences while preparing teams for March Madness.  Throughout the college football world there are trophies like Paul Bunyan’s Axe and many others that go to the team that wins an annual rivalry game.  In the college hockey world, the Beanpot provides bragging rights to one of Boston’s four top division, kicks off the playoff hockey season, and cements that team as a national championship contender.

Yet in Florida, there is no official college football state champion.  No trophy is awarded, no honors given to the school at the top of the heap in the Sunshine State.  In the Great Back When, Miami and Florida State used to play for the Seminole War Canoe, but that award has been retired, and even before it was it left out all the other Florida football programs, most notably the University of Florida Gators.

Here at Sports Talk Florida, we intend to do our part to rectify that.  Introducing the Florida Championship, a measure of the schools in the Sunshine State stacked up against one another.  There will be no trophy to award, no championship round where the top two Florida schools face each other, but as Florida is one of college football’s most fanatical states, it’s one that should have its own state championship.

Rest of story

[CousinRicky]

Kind of interesting but the end of season rankings pretty much tell you who the best team was.  

[Brad]

But now, there's a trophy and controversy!

[CousinRicky]

9 minutes ago, Brad said:

Some interesting pregame reading for state of Florida football fans:

 

Introducing the Florida Championship

By Tim Williams -

August 31, 2018

Maybe the most enduring quality of college sports, the thing more than anything else that gets people coming back through all the coaching changes and all of the scandals, is the institution’s penchant for local rivalries.

Throughout college sports, there are regional trophies and championships to be had.  College basketball has early season tournaments that, at bare minimum, enhance rivalries between conferences while preparing teams for March Madness.  Throughout the college football world there are trophies like Paul Bunyan’s Axe and many others that go to the team that wins an annual rivalry game.  In the college hockey world, the Beanpot provides bragging rights to one of Boston’s four top division, kicks off the playoff hockey season, and cements that team as a national championship contender.

Yet in Florida, there is no official college football state champion.  No trophy is awarded, no honors given to the school at the top of the heap in the Sunshine State.  In the Great Back When, Miami and Florida State used to play for the Seminole War Canoe, but that award has been retired, and even before it was it left out all the other Florida football programs, most notably the University of Florida Gators.

Here at Sports Talk Florida, we intend to do our part to rectify that.  Introducing the Florida Championship, a measure of the schools in the Sunshine State stacked up against one another.  There will be no trophy to award, no championship round where the top two Florida schools face each other, but as Florida is one of college football’s most fanatical states, it’s one that should have its own state championship.

Rest of story

 

Just now, Brad said:

But now, there's a trophy and controversy!

Ummmmm.  Re-read re: the trophy.  Always will be controversy.

[Brad]

Bad assumption on my behalf.  See if I were doing this, there would be a trophy.  Not a lame one, either.  And there'd be a presentation.  Not a lame one either.  Then ultimately, these teams might actually play each other more.  What a concept!

[NewEnglandBull]

If we don’t win this but feel we deserve it can we still say we won it? I hear that schools can do that now. 

[BDYZR]

51 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

If we don’t win this but feel we deserve it can we still say we won it? I hear that schools can do that now. 

Just wait til you see what they're doing at the 'Bama vs L'ville game in Orlando.

[NewEnglandBull]

19 minutes ago, BDYZR said:

Just wait til you see what they're doing at the 'Bama vs L'ville game in Orlando.

Do tell...

[Triple B]

20 minutes ago, BDYZR said:

Just wait til you see what they're doing at the 'Bama vs L'ville game in Orlando.

 

Just now, NewEnglandBull said:

Do tell...

I'm guessing a banner up in the sky over the stadium ...