Florida took over at its 24 and Tebow then led a 76-yard drive to clinch the game, capping his brilliant second half with a four-yard jump pass for a touchdown to David Nelson with 3:07 left.
"It was the kind of drive that you have to have in a game as close as this one," Meyer said. "It meant Oklahoma needed two touchdowns to win, and it took important time off the clock."
Tebow completed 18 of 30 passes for 231 yards with two touchdowns, and also rushed for 109 yards in 22 carries.
"The biggest thing is his ability to run and scramble," Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops said. "They got players going left, players going right, and he keeps it. A lot of it is design and a lot of it is him."
Harvin, nursing a sore ankle, led the Gators with 122 yards rushing.
The argument over this year's national champion may rage on at Utah, Texas and USC, but the chance for a split title is virtually dead.
There was an outside shot, with a close Oklahoma win, that the Associated Press might have crowned a different champion. But when the final poll was released, Florida received 48 of 65 first-place votes and finished No. 1 easily.
Utah Coach Kyle Whittingham, whose team finished 13-0 after a Sugar Bowl win over Alabama, will hold a news conference today to discuss the way a controversial season ended.
Really, though, there's nothing anyone can do now to deny one-loss Florida (13-1) its collection of victory spoils.
Oklahoma (12-2) will be kicking itself for weeks. The Sooners' offense, which averaged 54 points a game this season, never got in sync. The frenetic, no-huddle style Oklahoma wanted to play was slowed early by the game's crawling pace.
"Clock issues, they waved off a flag, whatever, it interrupted play quite a bit," Stoops said.
With the score tied at 7-7 in the second quarter, Oklahoma blew two key scoring opportunities inside Florida's 10. First, Gators defensive tackle Torrey Davis stuffed running back Chris Brown on fourth-and-goal and then, right before the half, Major Wright intercepted a Sam Bradford pass at the one with three seconds left.
"We had some opportunities to really make a difference in the first half, and came up short," Stoops said.
Bradford said he should have never thrown the pass.
"I tried to force one in there when in all reality I should have thrown one out of the back of the end zone and taken three points," he said.
