• As usual, your football reading should begin with Smart Football, whose championship roundup includes SF's recent breakdown of Urban Meyer's offense, notes on Oklahoma's clobbering of Texas Tech and thoughts on what it means to be a "national champion," anyway.

• AccuScore has simulated the game 10,000 times based on statistical probabilities, with Florida winning almost 57 percent of the time by an average score of 39.1 to 36.4. Expect big things from Tebow, Bradford, Harvin and Chris Brown. Wait, they had to simulate the game 10,000 time to determine there's going to be a bunch of offense?

• The New York Times has a roundup of media predictions, wherein nine of ten writers pick Florida to win, and all but one (Dennis Dodd, who guesses Florida 30, Oklahoma 20) think the Gators will score at least 35 points. The NYT has also rounded up mythical championship scouting reports from Lloyd Carr, Houston Nutt, Brian Kelly, Bo Pelini and Gary Pinkel, most of whom preach some variation on "Take care of the damn ball."

And Obama picks the Gators! But only if Percy Harvin is really healthy. He has no chance to carry Oklahoma in 2012, anyway, although he will have to face Phil Loadholt at the annual White House ceremony if the Sooners come through.

• The Oklahoman has a game-by-game recap of the Sooners' season, and reports on the standard bet between Oklahoma and Florida governors. Not to take away from the Sunshine State's citrus exports, but Florida guv Charlie Crist stands to get the better end of that wager, trust me.

Meanwhile, in Florida, the Gainesville Sun's Pat Dooley advises readers to completely abandon their mental faculties when assessing tonight's game.

• The Miami Herald reports on another dig against a Gator star by a member of Oklahoma's maligned secondary. Oh my god, wow, etc. The Herald also has some solid reporting on the impact for local merchandisers and a history of the Sooners in Miami, highlighted by the infamous Sooner Schooner penalty in the '85 Orange Bowl against Penn State.

• Tim Tebow's high school coach tells the Orlando Sentinel he thinks the Tebow Child will be back for a senior season ("That's the way the book should end."). After all, he may be a star, but Tebow's still no Dwight Howard.

• The Arizona Republic says quit your whining.

• On the blogs, Swindle/Hall has been blogging the hell out of the scene in Miami, the lucky, credentialed bastard. ... Crimson and Cream Machine has your lengthy previews for the respective offensive and defensive matchups. ... Saurian Sagacity's Mergz (who does not believe in the "national championship") recalls how much he despised Ohio State fans in Glendale in 2006, while his colleague Scully expects a few wrinkles from the Gator offense. ... And while Team Speed Kills crunches the defensive numbers, Burnt Orange Nation is just hoping for a good, clean game in which Florida completely destroys Texas' arch nemesis. Nothing wrong with that.