He turned down arbitration from the Rangers

As the top seed of this side in the playoff bracket, Alabama appears to loom over this group of teams as the grim reaper.It would take an upset of stunning proportions to ask the lower seeded teams to advance in this region.No 2: Alabama, SEC ChampionNo 15: Troy, Sun Belt ChampionNo 7: Oregon, PAC 10 ChampionNo. 11Iowa, At-Large of the Big 10In this sequence, we find the notorious defenses of TCU and Iowa along with the exciting offenses of Oregon and Cincinnati.The coaching of Skip Holtz and Frank Beamer cannot be overlooked when it comes to preparing a team for one game. In the No 1 versus No. 16 bracket we would no doubt find Texas moving past The Navy In the eight vs. nine situation it is anyone's guess.For the sake of advancing the discussion, let us say the Yellow Jackets wear down a tiring Ohio State defense and go ahead to meet Texas.While Ga Tech is extremely difficult to prepare for and contain, there would be a confidence about the Longhorn team which would allow them to subdue Paul Johnson's ACC Champions.In the bottom half of the bracket, No. 4 Boise State would find themselves stunned and stung by the ferocious defense of No 13 seated Nebraska.On the other side, No.

In a somewhat surprsing shoot-out between two top quarterbacks, Texas moves on to take its place in the National Championship game.. From the Alabama perspective, the disposing of totally outmanned Troy would be similar to the Tide-Misssippi State regular season game.The opponent in the following round would be the PAC-10 Champion Oregon Ducks. Going into Tuscaloosa, Oregon unleashes an offensive display not seen in that State since John McKay brought Sam Cunningham to town and put 42 points up on Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide in 1970.Never knowing what hit them, Alabama bows out of the playoffs following a devastating loss to the high-performance Oregon Ducks in a game close from start to finish.The bottom side of this bracket reveals highly respected TCU against CUSA Champion East Carolina and Big East Champion Cincinnati against Big 10 At-Large Iowa.The Hawkeyes are a very underrated team. In a shocking turn of events the Hawkeyes stun the Bearcats and move along to challenge fearsome TCU following the Horned Frogs' win over East Carolina.Iowa continues to shock the world by downing highly respected TCU to set the stage for the region final with Oregon.At this time the Hawkeyes run out of gas and their fine run ends at the hands of the explosive Oregon Duck scoring machine.Next stop for the Green and Yellow clad champions of the PAC 10The National Championship Game with Texas. In any other contest, it would be a simple matter to take the fearsome Ducks and their machine-like offense to simply bore a hole though the defense of any competitor.Not this time. Texas has the offense to score on Oregon, and score, and score.The Longhorns faced the best defense in the country in Nebraska for the Big 12 title, anyone else is a coffee break.And Oregon will not be able to run up and down the field on Texas since the Longhorn defense will be rested due to their time of possession advantage.In an interesting clash between highly talented squads, the Texas Longhorns would be the 2009 college football playoff champions.Will the Longhorns be champions in the one stop, one shot for all the marbles BCS Title GameNo one can say with any authority at this time but, many are convinced.

Texas will not disappoint their enormous fan following throughout the entire nation.As Wally Cleaver often remarked on Leave It To Beaver, "We'll see.". Ivan Rodriguez will reporditly take his catching experence to Washington and help try an develop young catcher Jesus Flores. Rodriguez, a 14-time All-Star with 13 Gold Gloves, has agreed to a two-year, $6 million deal with the Nats, MLB reported on Monday night. He turned down arbitration from the Rangers.The Associated Press reported that the deal is subject to the 38-year old passing a physical.Rodriguez was acquired by the Rangers in August last season, serving his second stint with the team on which he became a star. In the past few seasons he has bounced around, from the Yankees to the Astros and back to the Rangers.He batted .249 with 10 home runs and 47 RBIs last season.