College Football

The decade of the 2000's was a great decade for college football. Let's look back at the best of the last decade. Over the rest of Janurary, I will look at the best games, teams, and players. First let's look back at the best teams of the last decade.

1. 05 Texas team
This team was led by future NFL star Vince Young who led Texas to a huge upset at the National Title game against the powerful USC Trojans. This team went undefeated and in my book, is the best team of the last decade.

2. 01 Miami team
This team was packed with future NFL stars like Ed Reed, Andre Johnson,  Jeremy Shockey and Clinton Portis. This team won the 2001 National Championship and almost repeated the next year.

3. 04 Auburn team
This team was jipped out of a National Championship chance and ended up in the Sugar Bowl where they beat Virgina Tech and went undefeated. This team had future NFL stars like Tampa Bay HB Carnell "Cadillac" Williams, Dolphins HB Ronnie Brown and Redskins QB Jason Campbell. These were in my opinion the best teams of the decade.

January 6 was a huge night for not only for the college football universe, but Texas QB Colt McCoy as well. He had his final chance to shine after getting robbed from the BCS National Championship Game last year, and being runner up for the Heisman two years in a row. But after driving down the field on the second possession, McCoy who had been waiting for this moment for 5 years, injured his shoulder and would no return. Alabama took advantage. With a freshman QB playing for Texas, Alabama's defense took advantage and clobbered the Texas offense while the Alabama offense tacked on 37 points and won the game. The Alabama Crimson Tide had just won their first National Championship sense 1992. Although Alabama head coach showed no emotion, you could tell he was happy. After three short years in Tuscaloosa, he turned a program that was about to fall from greatness and turned it into to a powerhouse. Congrats Alabama. Your the 2009 national champs!