Members of the Oklahoma football team celebrate winning the Big 12 Championship football game against Missouri Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008 in Kansas City, Mo. Oklahoma won the game 62-21. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

The college football regular season is over, and the marathon of bowl games that runs from mid-December to Jan. 8 is still a couple weeks away.

College football’s most prestigious award, the Heisman Trophy, will be announced Saturday, followed soon after by others such as the Davey O’Brien and Walter Payton awards.

And as usual during this time of year, these come on the heels of Hollywood’s Golden Globe Nominations, which are to be announced Thursday.

Sports fans and movie buffs alike will tell you this year’s college football season provided as much drama as The Dark Knight and stirred up more controversy than Brokeback Mountain.

If this season had been a movie, I’d definitely buy the DVD. Or at least RedBox it.

With that in mind, here are a few awards of my own, presented Oscar-style, to tide you over until, well, the real things.

Best Actor: Sam Bradford

This was a tight race, but the sophomore quarterback’s additional screen time Saturday night against Missouri sealed the deal.

Bradford turned in the best performance of the season, leading the Sooners to Miami while along the way putting up numbers you’d only expect to see in a video game.

The Heisman-hopeful accounted for 53 total touchdowns and 4,464 passing yards, finishing with a record 186.28 passer efficiency rating. All three are higher than the numbers any of the previous 10 Heisman-winning quarterbacks recorded.

Best Director: Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly

Injuries plagued the quarterback position at Cincinnati this year, as five different quarterbacks started at least one game for the Bearcats.

Sam Bradford attempts a pass. Zach Butler/The Daily

Apparently someone forgot to tell Kelly. All he did was win a school record 11 games en route to this year’s Big East title.

Thanks to Kelly’s masterful direction, Cincinnati is playing in its first BCS game in school history.

Best Picture: Texas Tech 39, Texas 33.

By far the best game of the year, and not just for what it meant to OU fans.

This game was great theatre in itself, but throw in all the national title implications that were surrounding it, and there is no other game even close.

The Longhorns’ second half comeback. Tech’s game-winning drive capped by Michael Crabtree’s touchdown catch with one second remaining. The sea of red and black that descended upon the field following the Red Raider victory.

This all combined to produce the most exciting game of the regular season.

Best Documentary: The Utah Utes

This award essentially goes to the best of the non-BCS schools.

The Utes, champions of the Mountain West conference, finished the season with a perfect 12-0 record and are headed to New Orleans to play Alabama in the Sugar Bowl.

Utah also turned in an undefeated season back in 2004, ending the season with a 35-7 win over Pittsburgh in the Fiesta Bowl.

Two BCS victories in as many tries is exactly what Utah needs if it wants to remain in the same sentence as the traditional powers from the six major conferences.

Best Editing: The Florida Gators

Following their home loss to Ole Miss in late September, the Gators returned to the drawing board and made the biggest change of the season.

Since that game Florida has embarked on a nine-game winning streak that has been nothing short of mind-boggling, outscoring opponents by a combined total of 445-117.

Five of those nine victories have come against teams that either are currently ranked or were ranked at the time. The most important came Saturday against then-No. 1 Alabama in the SEC championship game.