The Florida Gators chewed up and spit out the Ohio State Buckeyes like they were dog meat on a cold winter day in the swamp. The Gators routed OSU 41-14.    

Florida got all but one of the 65 first-place votes in the final Associated Press poll. Ohio State dropped from No. 1 and finished second.

“Honestly, we’ve played a lot better teams than them,” Florida defensive end Jarvis Moss said. “I could name four or five teams in the SEC that could probably compete with them and play the same type of game we did against them.”

Leak, maligned for never winning the big one, completed 25 of 36 passes for 213 yards and a touchdown. The Rambo-like Tebow threw for one TD and powered into the end zone for another.

Smith, meanwhile, joined a long list of Heisman Trophy quarterbacks — Jason White, Eric Crouch and Gino Torretta, among them — to fall apart in bowl games. He was just 4-of-14 for 35 yards with one interception, sacked him five times and held him to minus-29 yards on 10 runs.

The Gators dominated the Buckeyes. Ohio State played a pretty weak schedule as most Big 10 schools do and it showed. The layoff of 51 days for the Buckeyes didn’t help much either.