2010 SUGAR BOWL – CINCINNATI BEARCATS (12-0) vs. FLORIDA GATORS (12-1)
Event: Sugar Bowl
Date: Friday, Jan. 1, 2010, 8:30 pm EST
Site: Superdome, New Orleans, LA
MY Sportsbook.com LINE: Florida -12.5
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Team records:
Cincinnati: 12-0 SU, 6-5 ATS
Florida: 12-1 SU, 5-6-1 ATS
Preview:
How Cincy fares in this year’s Sugar Bowl is a perfect case study for those BCS naysayers out there. We have an unblemished team from the uninspiring Big East conference going up against a textbook SEC superpower.
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Though West Virginia and Rutgers certainly isn’t LSU and Georgia, the Bearcats do not have a lack of firepower. Their offense kept rolling whether lanky star QB Tony Pike was under center or their back-up, baseball player-moonlighting as pivot Zach Collaros. Cincy wideout Mardy Gilyard is a beast, Armon Binns and D.J. Woods see plenty of supplementary balls.
Isaiah Pead and Jacob Ramsey do enough on the ground for the Bearcats to be multifaceted.
Cincy should be a little bummed after head coach Brian Kelly ran off to greener pastures and golden domes, but that may boost play rather than hinder it. 
For Florida, even with a season that was pedestrian by QB Tim Tebow’s standards, the offense did enough and the D was NFL-caliber. Until the SEC title game against Alabama. The Gators must rebound from that crappy performance and summon the strength to squash Cincinnati, which they most certainly can do from a talent perspective.
There’s been a similar brand of adversity in Gainesville with the stepping down/leave of absence/health concerns of Gator head coach Urban Meyer. If the teams use this flux for good rather than melancholy, a Sugar Bowl ticket will be worth every penny.
Cincinnati has its great attack and a competent defense, but expect an inspired game out of Tebow in his last as a collegian and expect LB Brandon Spikes, CB Joe Haden and the rest of the stupidly gifted Gator D to treat the Bearcats like an underpaid, understaffed maitre’d.
Expect this game to explain why the BCS is what it is, at the end of the day.
2009 Team Stats
Team Offense: Cincinnati 6th
Florida 12th
Team Defense: Cincinnati 47th
Florida 4th
Trends:
Cincinnati is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Florida is 22-1 SU in its last 23 games
Florida is 3-5-1 ATS in its last 9 games
Pick: Florida -12.5
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