I am sure the debate of rivalries will continue for some time. It's what we college football fans will do until the season starts. The four months between spring games and the start of fall practice are probably the worst period in a college football fans' life.

Because we don't have much to entertain us in this respect, we turn to the analysis of our chances for the following year and making profound statements on what our rivals are looking like and who (if anyone) can beat us in the upcoming year.

For those of us who know the intensity of the Florida/Florida State rivalry, we normally circle this early or as soon as we get the schedule. It's always the last regular season game of the year and used to always have some type of title implications involved for one of the two teams.

As long as I can remember going to Gator games there have been three things that happened on Thanksgiving weekend. Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, shopping on black Friday, and Florida versus Florida State on Saturday, primetime, carried by some network, and billed as the game to watch.

This game has been tagged as "the Governors Cup" or even "the Sunshine Showdown," and there have been fights on the field before the game and fights on the field after the game. One fight ensued because it was thought that Gator quarterback Doug Johnson threw the ball at Bobby Bowden during warmups. Johnson later apologized.

There is what has been tagged "The Choak at DoaK" where a Steve Spurrier lead team went into the fourth quarter leading 31-3. Florida State came back and scored 28 points in the final period alone to tie the game and that's how it ended, 31-31.

From 1990-2000, Steve Spurrier lead the Gators up against Bobby Bowden twelves times. Two of those were Sugar Bowls appearances, one was a National Championship game. All twelves times both teams were ranked in the top ten and every time Spurrier went to Tallahassee, he came home to Gainesville with a loss.

The Seminoles have beaten the Gators ranked No. 1 and the Gators have beaten the Semnoles ranked No. 1.

Then, there was the dedication of Bobby Bowden Field in 2004. Ron Zook already has his walking papers as the head coach Florida, and it would be his final game. The Gators come away with a win from Doak Campbell for the first time since the 80's, and the streak of victoires in Doak has continued through today. In Gator Nation, we affectionately refer to the field as "Ron Zook Field."

I think by now you get how heated this rivalry has been, if you weren't already aware.

But, in comes Urban Meyer. He has not lost to Bobby Bowden....ever. In 2005 at Florida Field, he got a 35-7 victory, in 2006 at Tallahassee it was 21-14, in 2007  in "the Swamp," it was 45-12, and last year on Bobby Bowden Field again it was 45-15. Now I could have left out the specific scores but it still feels good to gloat.

My point being that those scores are indicative of the disparity in the programs. The programs have and still are heading in opposite directions. Bowden has experience more losses, low recruiting years, and more off the field issues than anytime in his program's history.

And, of course I am going to quote, "it's not a rivalry if only one team is winning."

Now, the Gators expect to win. And, with walk on water Tim Tebow, the Seminoles expect the Gators to win again this year.

In 2008 on the way to a National Championship, in the pouring rain Tebow executed like it was a sunny day. The receivers caught like it was a sunny day. And, the Gators scored three more touchdowns after Percy Harvin was injured. Bowden said, before the game that, "he hoped the rain would slow him down."

Well, it didn't and this game is becoming slightly boring to some of us in Gator Nation. Please give us some real competition.

I for one want the Seminole to get back to national prominence or at least some relevancy in their own conference. Please just make this a game.

But for the time being, the Gators own the Seminoles and it is no longer a rivalry. We go into the season preparing for showdowns with Georgia, Tennessee, and LSU. Florida State has sadly become a Senior Day Game at home and a gimme last regular season game on their field.

To quote a Florida State message board writer..... "the economy is down and the Gators are up, if this isn't hell then I don't know what is."