There's still some football. Bama vs LSU for Championship? (or not)

However, they get to see each other every year anyway. Having the two best SEC teams play each other leaves us with #3 and below going against other conferences best teams. Also, after SC, Arkansas and Georgia there is a drop off to the next level of SEC teams that might get waxed in their bowls.

LSU will probably beat whoever it is that the BCS selects.

“Don’t talk about playoffs”! ;-)

That LSU team lost to not 1 but 2 unranked opponents – a 7-5 UK and an unranked Ark team in the last game of the season. Georgia, who was also 2 losses and playing better than anyone in the country was argued by ESPN folk that they could not be considered for NC game b/c they didn’t even win the SEC East (not true, actually – it was a tie but UT won the tie-breaker due to a head to head win).

Now, we let ‘Bama play in the NC game against a team they already lost to AT HOME and ignore an OKL ST team that played a better schedule (5 ranked teams v. 3 for ’Bama for example) – of ’Bama’s only 4 teams with winning record, one was Ga Southern, a Div 1-AA(whatever it is called now) team.

I’m an SEC homer – but I think LSU is being screwed by having to beat a team it already beat once on the road again – and if it loses – it is like the first win never happened. Every game counts in college football, right? Well, not if you’re Alabama or LSU.

Look, I think Alabama and LSU are the 2 best teams, but ‘Bama doesn’t deserve another shot – it is unfair to LSU too. And it is unfair to Okl State which does have a better resume of wins that ’Bama. The SEC already has one team in the NC game. Insisting on 2 in this situation is wrong.

[If the two best teams were from the SEC east and SEC west, and they split two games (one regular season and one SEC champ game), then I could see the argument for the NC game rubber match. Not the case here. Just wrong.]

I’m not saying OSU is a #2 team, just that there seems more to gain for the SEC and football in general if OSU faces LSU and Bama can go on to beat some other team.

These two teams have almost NFL-level defenses, and very good offenses. I’m not quite so sure this next game will be like the last one. Probably it will be more like 21-7 or something.

The “Basketball on grass” games rarely make it to the BCS championships. The old saw that “defense wins championships” has never been more true than today.

UK and Arkansas.

And Georgia, which was probably the hottest and best team at the end of that year, was snubbed (and jumped in the final poll by teams that did not even play the last weekend) for the NC game. Why? B/c, according to the same talking heads that support Alabama this year, Georgia did not even play in the SEC championship game.

Huh. These guys could be politicians. Flip flop much?

and doesn’t need to validate their standing. If LSU plays Bama and loses by one point in OT then Bama gets the National Championship? Ugly scenario. Guess we’ll find out tonight how last nights pasting of OU by OSU effected the voters.

If every game counts in college football because we don’t have a play off, then every game counts. That means LSU already beat ‘Bama and OU – they should get fresh meat – not allow a rematch to steal the first win as though it didn’t happen.

by having Bama play OSU for #2. (We definitely won’t see that matchup.) It really might come down to whether the voters think #1 has already been established through the regular season.

I would love hear to the excuses for LSU-Bama if Boise St had been undefeated (and they would be the last two years if they could find a field goal kicker).

But I assure you – even if Boise St had been undefeated, and despite UGa’s resurgence this year, ’Bama would have been in the championship game.