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The OG Kickoff w/ Connor and Will

It Just Meant More: The 2009 SEC Championship, AKA Tebow's Tears

The OG Kickoff w/ Connor and Will

Connor O'Gara

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

The guys have a monumental game to look back on. The 2009 SEC Championship between No. 1 Florida and No. 2 Alabama was the first of its kind. It's also the ultimate passing-of-the-torch game. Connor and Will dig into what made this such a pivotal game, not just in SEC history, but also in the history of college football in the 21st century. And of course, the guys discuss the Tebow tears. Email us at TheOGKickoff@gmail.com to share your memories from that day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, what's going on? This is the OG kickoff. I am Kyle Gara. Subscribe to the OG kickoff on YouTube. Will? It just met more. We have a dozy of a game today just in terms of storylines.

0:22.4

We are doing the 2009 SEC Championship, a game in which we somehow have not done,

0:28.1

number one Florida, number two Alabama.

0:31.1

Well, you could make the case that while this game is a dud in terms of late game intrigue, this does not

0:39.8

have the same sort of late game intrigue that last week's game did with the Ole Miss, Tennessee,

0:45.3

Lane Kiffon, and Reunion and Knoxville game. This is one of the single most, you know what,

0:51.2

I'm just going to say it is the single most important passing of the torch game in college football in the 21st century, fair or not? I very much agree. And we'll get into this as far as what the future could have held for Urban Meyer and all of that. But yeah, I mean, I think this was truly the birth of joyless murder ball, right? So when people are saying, hey, we want to return to joyless murder ball. Hashtag journalist murder ball, we just beat you by nine points. No, no. Joyless murder ball is like the fourth quarter of a game is academic because we are physically destroying an undefeated returning national champion with like a high asman winner with a Hall of Fame head coach. That is joyless murder ball.

1:27.7

That you're exactly right.

1:28.5

This was a very bleak game at the end.

1:31.2

It was like watching a war document.

1:33.5

Alabama took Florida soul.

1:35.2

They took all of Florida superpowers, not full monstars, but basically at certain points, that's what it felt like.

1:43.5

And we have a decade and a half of history since that game to back up the fact that this was a passing of the torch game.

1:52.3

It felt like it at the time, given all the talent that Florida was going to lose to the NFL draft, most notably one Tim Tebow, who will, if you're watching this on YouTube, this game was in fact the Tebow Tears game.

2:06.4

And that's probably the way that most people remember this game.

2:10.6

And if you go on YouTube and try and watch the full version of it, go to that second comment.

2:16.1

Yeah, everyone, you know, everyone's just here for the tibbo tears that's

2:19.5

probably really the intrigue of watching all four quarters of this game because with

2:25.0

62 seconds left in this game one tin tibbo cried on national television and we're going to be

2:31.6

he's going to be hearing about it for the rest of his life yeah i'm going'm going to try to get us a new fresh background for each number one of these.

2:37.2

I think that this was just an iconic image in SEC history.

2:40.2

I'm going to ask you a question here, Kyle.

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