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Article: BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP - OHIO STATE VS. FLORIDA: The battle for No. 1; Buckeyes, Gators face off tonight

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January 8, 2007
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Tostitos NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Ohio State vs. Florida * When: 8:15 p.m. today * Line: Ohio St. by 71/2 * TV: (11)

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - A new era of college football begins Monday night with No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Florida playing a game that's grown too big to be called a bowl.

A week after New Year's Day, after all the bowls have been played, the Buckeyes and Gators meet in the first BCS national championship game.

"It's the Super Bowl of college football and I think college football needed that," Gators coach Urban Meyer said Sunday.

What the bigger - if not better - Bowl Championship Series got for its new showcase event is a 1 vs. 2 matchup that had many skeptical at first about it's ...

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