As a Florida girl and a Gator girl, college football has an extra special place in my heart. While I didn’t attend as many Florida games as I wanted to… hindsight you know how that goes… I was graced with the access to see Tim Tebow and the boys win in all the orange and life glory they were.

As I sit here watching the Sugar Bowl, ironically on a come down high from the Georgia- Oklahoma Rose Bowl, I get a sense of the special deep pride these Bowl games give to the students who continually add to the bevy of successful graduates these amazing school bring.

My brother is a very proud UCF Knight, and their epic superior win with the perfect season was truly remarkable. I was so proud to be even tangentially associated with the proud Black and Gold.

These players are doing this game for more than just playing. They are carrying a century of successful alumni along for this ride. They carry years of hard work, ultimate integrity, generations of passion, and literal blood, sweat, and tears of millions of fans. To say the pressure’s on is a blatant understatement, for the pressure is releasing at that moment. This is it for them, they have to let it all OUT! Blow off all the steam from the semester, catch every ball, and leave it ALL on the field.