The SEC’s Florida Gators showed Oklahoma what for last night as Urban Meyer and Tim Tebow bagged their second national championship in 3 years, this time quashing Oklahoma and this year’s Heisman winner Sam Bradford (Tebow, of course, already has one of those). Final score: 24 to 14, but it wasn’t that close.

For their part, the Sooners extended their run of big-game chokes; this is their third consecutive bowl loss for the Sooners (after back-to-back Fiesta Bowls, losing to West Virginia last year and, more memorably, Boise in the 2007 game). In point of fact, the Sooners have only won ONE bowl since their 2003 Rose Bowl win (over Oregon in the 2005 Holiday Bowl; OU’s lone BCS title was in the 00-01 season, over FSU).

Meyer is now the first coach to pick up two BCS-era championships, and raises the SEC to 5 and 0 in the title game (2 each for LSU and Florida; one for Tennessee; unless I’m wrong, Tebow is now the only college QB to play in and win two title games as well.) No other conference has a winning record in this game; in fact, the 2nd place conference has only 2 wins (Big XII, with Texas and Oklahoma) vs. 4 losses (3 x OU, 1 Nebraska). We still contend that the Longhorns would’ve been a better choice for this game, but Big XII rules kept that from happening.

(To round out the BCS tally: The Big 10, ACC, and Big East are all 1-2 in championship play, and the Pac 10 is 1-1. In all, eleven teams have played in the title game, a stat that tells the same story of SEC dominance with a side of Big XII contention: 3 are SEC, 3 are Big XII, 2 are Big East, and 1 each from Big 10, ACC, and Pac-10)

All this, of course, hasn’t escaped journalistic notice.

Final AP standings mirror, sort of, what we’d expect; we find no argument with it based on what we can know for certain in a no-playoff universe:

1. Florida
2. Utah
3. USC
4. Texas
5. Oklahoma
6. Alabama

See you next year. Aside from draft-related commentary, Heathen now returns to a much more pure-geek-and-lefty-politics mode until next August.