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national championship college football 2009

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Alabama beats Florida for SEC championship

ATLANTA (AP) - Mark Ingram and Greg McElroy sliced up the fearsome Florida defense and Tim Tebow finally met his match, no matter how hard he tried to fire up his teammates.
With an emphatic 32-13 chomping of the Gators, the Crimson Tide again stands atop the Southeastern Conference. More important, Alabama is just one win away from an even bigger title - its first national championship since 1992, led by a coach who believes in "The Process" instead of the houndstooth.

Ingram, making a strong bid to claim the school's first Heisman Trophy, rushed for 113 yards and three touchdowns. McElroy was 12 of 18 for 239 yards and a touchdown to show he's no weak link and No. 2 Alabama rekindled memories of Paul "Bear" Bryant with the convincing victory Saturday.

Alabama (13-0) moves on to Pasadena for the BCS championship game. Tebow and the Gators (12-1) will likely settle for the Sugar Bowl, denied a shot at their third national title in four years.

When it was over, there were a range of emotions.


A college football "national championship" in the highest level of collegiate play in the United States, currently the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), is a designation awarded annually by various third-party organizations to their selection(s) of the best college football team(s). Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) football is the only NCAA sport in which a yearly champion is not determined by an NCAA sanctioned championship event.

* Bowl Championship Series (not an official NCAA championship, includes only Division I FBS teams)
* National football championship (this article pertains to systems of determining a national champion prior to and including the BCS)
* NCAA Division I Football Championship[17] (includes only Division I FCS teams)
* NCAA Division I FCS Consensus Mid-Major Football National Championship
* NCAA Division II National Football Championship

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