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They were stretched all around, as far as the eye could see, at the BCS National Championship Game last night in Miami. The Florida Gators, and game MVP Tim Tebow, beat the Oklahoma Sooners 24-14 to capture their second National Title in 3 years. Florida was also voted the AP National Champion in the poll released this morning.

Experts expected the game to be a shoot-out with two of the best offenses in the NCAA going head to head. Oklahoma did not score less than 35 points in any game this season en route to a 12-1 regular-season record and Big 12 championship. The Gators were also an offensive juggernaut, also finishing 12-1 and winning the SEC championship. It was Florida’s #4 ranked defense that made the difference.

Despite having the Heisman Trophy winner in Sam Bradford, Oklahoma was not able to put the points on the board that they are used to. They were stopped at the goal line twice in the first half, once on 4th down and once with an interception. Still, the game was neck and neck in the second half until Florida blocked an Oklahoma field goal attempt. After that play one could feel the momentum swing to Florida, and they ran away with the game. Tebow and Percy Harvin, who had missed a month with an injury and stayed in Florida over Christmas to rehab for the game, put the Sooners away.

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The University of Florida’s head football coach Urban Meyer stated that coaching at Notre Dame was his dream job, even as Florida is scheduled to compete for a national championship on January 8.

Meyer will take his Gators to the national championship game against the Oklahoma Sooners. He has great players, notably Tim Tebow. He has a great program to coach, a national power, a program with name recognition, but still says that because he is from the North, he’d consider a position at Notre Dame.

But the odds of Meyer leaving his post at Florida to go to Notre Dame seem slim for a few reasons. One, Charlie Weis was not fired, but the most important reason is that Meyer knows that being the coach at Notre Dame means a national recruiting base and too much time away from his family. But after his youngest child graduates high school, who knows?