Listen, I love Kirk Herbstreit.  I think he's one of the most open-minded analysts out there, and when he says watch college football from twelve to two in the morning, he obviously is telling the truth.  When everyone was down on Notre Dame last year, Kirk stood up for them, and overall, I think he does a bang-up job in his work, both as a color commentator and as an analyst on College Gameday.

But despite Gary Danielson turning into some sort of attacking, SEC-loving war monger and Kirk retaining his ever-present cool on the same Michigan radio station, I have to side with one tiny factor of Gary Danielson's argument, which, and I'm not sure if he planned this, debunks Kirk's theory that Michigan deserves to play over Florida because they're better:

Nobody knows.  Yes, Kirk, Gary, Bob Davie and a host of others are paid to say what they think about college football, but that doesn't mean these opinions should affect who should play for the championship.  According to Kirk, since he watches so much college football and knows in the pit of his everlasting soul that Florida would beat Michigan, then logic follows that he should correctly pick the majority, if not all of, the bowl game winners correctly.  The sad thing is he won't, and he can't, because despite watching Florida, Michigan and a host of others all season, it's still very possible to not know who will be better on any given Saturday.

The numbers favor, ever so slightly, Florida, as sorta proven by myself and SMQ in the wake of Saturday's games and Sunday's maize and blue catastrophe.  Kirk doesn't want to look at the resumes - they don't mean anything to him - but you must.  ESPN analysts get it wrong, as you can see here, where the braintrust involved unanimously picked Miami to sweep over Ohio State in the Fiesta.  

All the analysts got to see Georgia and West Virginia play a lot last year, yet that didn't stop them from deciding the Mountaineers didn't belong on the same field as the Bulldogs.  We don't know.  By Kirk saying that resumes don't matter and we should choose who plays for the title solely based on our own eyes, he loses the argument to Gary Freakin' Danielson.  It doesn't make me happy, but it's the truth.

Somehow, Gary stumbled into winning this thing despite screaming for the hosts to name non-quarterbacks from the SEC and completely contradicting himself time after time.