College Football

Crowning the queen of college football

The deciding play of the Sugar Bowl merely set up the shot ESPN was waiting for, but it had nothing to do with any players or coaches.

After Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron was strip-sacked and as soon as Oklahoma’s Geneo Grissom dove into the end zone for a touchdown, ESPN cameras zoomed in on McCarron’s beautiful model girlfriend, Katherine Webb, for her reaction.

And oh what a reaction it was, one of shock and dismay, Webb covering her face with both hands in disappointment. Webb was shown early and often in Alabama’s 45-31 loss to Oklahoma on Thursday night, a year after she drew nationwide attention during the BCS championship game.

You remember that exchange. When cameras panned to her during the game, broadcaster Brent Musberger went gaga.

“You quarterbacks, you get all the good-looking women,” said Musburger, 73. “What a beautiful woman.”

“Wow!” his partner, Kirk Herbstreit, said.

“Whoa!” Musburger added.

“A.J’.s doing some things right down in Tuscaloosa,” Herbstreit said.

“If you’re a youngster in Alabama, start getting the football out and throw it around the backyard with pop,” Musburger said.

Webb is definitely more important to ESPN than Lindsey Duke, the stunning girlfriend of Central Florida quarterback Blake Bortles. The network didn’t show her once during the Knights’ 52-42 win over Baylor in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Wednesday night. And it appears she was in attendance.

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Duke doesn’t have the popularity of Webb, though Duke has appeared across the pages of the Orlando entertainment magazine Axis and a Google search draws million of results. Bortles, a possible top-five NFL draft pick this spring, said she is “way more famous than I am.”

When asked about her, Central Florida coach George O’Leary fawned: “She deserves 6 million Googles.”

Central Florida’s game, with Bortles on the field and Duke in the stands, had all the makings for another Webb moment – except ESPN refused to acquiesce.

They preferred waiting a day to show more of Webb.

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