Yes we watch SEC football because it's the best, we actually play DEFENSE. 5 teams with 10 wins and 3 teams in the top 10. But I guess you are right, we are down. Please stop being a hater, every time you post it's an admission of ignorance. It's not your fault, you are blinded by envy. Look at the bright side of Bama and LSU playing each other means you can rejoice in the fact an SEC team will lose the big game.
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Alabama is the second best team in the nation, just so happens the second best team in the nation is from the same conference as the best team in the nation.
Why should there not be a rematch? For all intents and purposes the first game was played to a tie.
It needed a ridiculous over time rule to decide the tie breaker.
Only an idiot would not want to see a rematch to see a 60 minute tie breaker game.
Sucks to be Okie State, if they did not choke on their opportunity to a crappy Iowa State team, as a what? 3 TD favorite? they would not be bitching and moaning right now.
Oh? If Okie State did not play in a nanci-boi, lingerie flag football conference, they would not be 10 and 1 right now.
The next team Okie State plays that has any sort of defense, will be their first game.
The BCS Championship game is the game played by the #1 ranked team versus the #2 ranked team.
NOT the #1 ranked team versus the #2 ranked team who is not from the same conference as the #1 team.
#1 versus #2
LSU versus Alabama
Deal with it.
It's going to be a moot point anyway after the Sooner beat Okie State outright later today.
One last point?
game is in Louisiana and it will be a huge home crowd advantage for LSU.
How so?
1) Both schools get the same amount of tickets.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the two teams playing in the title game get 17,000 tickets each.
2) Alabama and Louisiana are practically neighbors, if Mississippi didn't get in the way.
You make it sound like it's a major inconvenience for fans of Alabama to get to New Orleans.
It's like a trip to the corner store to them.
Hop on I-59, drive straight for a few hours, you are there.
It's a little over a 250 mile drive.
It's not like the Tide fans have to travel to Bangor Maine, which they would if they have to.
Trust me on this, there is no HUGE HOME CROWD ADVANTAGE, both teams will be represented equally?
3) There is no home field advantage either.
Both teams have not set foot in the Superdome all year, it's a neutral field, LSU played all their home games at Tiger Stadium this year, not one game has been in the Superdome.
Carry on dude.Comment -
I am neither a LSU or Alabama fan.
I think defense had more to do with nine total points then 'choking'
Choking is losing to a crappy Iowa State team as a 3 TD (or whatever) favorite when you can control your own destiny.
Sorry, losing to Iowa State in that situation is the essence of 'choking'
Carry on dude, do yourself a favor, don't bet the Houston Cougars today either.Comment -
This is an interesting statement to me as in no other sport do we think this way. When the Patriots win the Super Bowl, do we go back and suggest the Jets won because they beat them in the regular season? Same applies for NBA, MLB, etc.
It's like the NCAA Football minds can't understand that we have a regular season followed by a reshuffling into the "postseason"
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A rematch works only if LSU wins again. Otherwise, we've proved nothing.Comment -
I'm in the camp of "if it is indeed Tide versus LSU for all the marbles, and if 'Bama does win the rematch, split vote city, co-champs"Comment -
See this is the typical SEC fan response... an assumption of envy and an air of superiority as if they are entitled to being the best conference year in and year out...
Guess what fools...not all of us on here are big FAN BOYS... some of us are on here because we actually make money gambling on a sport we love...
I am no BIG 12 fan boy or homer... in fact my team is not even in the BIG 12... the fact is all the computers have the Big 12 ranked number 1 for a reason...MATH...
Very hard to argue against numbers (THIS YEARS NUMBERS) until teams actually get on the field and play the game out...
Seems to me like SEC fan boys might be a little scared to get on the field with Okie St or Stanford.... There might actually be some prestige to lose and some crow to eat after January 8th...
BTW... mark it down right now... If UGA limits themselves to 1 turnover and does not allow LSU to return kicks... (i.e. all touchbacks on kickoffs and fair catches on punts) then I am giving you a promise that they cover the number and will have a 50/50 chance of winning the game... LSU is not invincible...Comment -
The team that's played 6 teams winning record who they are 5-0 against with the opportunity to be 6-0.
Instead of a team who's played 4 teams with winning records and is 3-1. Who's quality wins are Arkansas, Auburn and Penn State.
Not much of an argument when it comes to resume's.Comment -
And Alabama is more deserving b/c of the amazing schedule they played?Comment -
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Dude, the SoS of Alabama and Okie State is almost identical.
Okie's SoS is slightly tougher, but insignificantly tougher.
For all intents and purposes, the two teams SoS was equal.
Moving forward.
Okie State yields 28 points a game.
Okie State's only loss was to a crappy Iowa State team as an almost 3 TD fave.
Alabama's only loss was to #1 LSU, and for all intents and purposes that game was a tie, it took an awful overtime rule to determine a winner.
Okie State needed 52 points to beat Kansas State, because K State dropped 45 on the Cowboys.
Okie State barely got by an overrated Texas team.
Okie State got 2 favorable referee calls to beat Texas A&M by a point back in September.
With the exception of the LSU game, Alabama was never challenged all season
Mind you the SoS of Alabama and OK State are virtually even.
Once again, throw out the LSU game, Alabama was NEVER CHALLENGED.
Look it up.
Tide beat every ranked team they played, with the exception of LSU by 3 scores or me.
I get it, you are a 'Bama hater, but look at this objectively.Comment -
Even if Alabama wins, how would that make them "national champions"? LSU would still have a much more impressive resume. They would be 1-1 head to head (with LSU having beaten Alabama on their own home field), LSU played a tougher schedule and LSU is the SEC champion.
So in what way could Alabama be considered a real national champion?
They should not rematch. Even if Alabama does win, LSU should be the AP National Champion and the "BCS Championship" will be meaningless.Comment -
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So, by your logic, and team inferior to Alabama deserves to play LSU?
(not you AP)Comment -
Haters keep hating, and I will watch the game on Jan 9th with personal interest. ROLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!!!Comment -
I'm not a bama hater by any means. But the reason Bama wasn't challenged all season is b/c they played a soft schedule. All those ifs about how they needed 52 points to beat K State, calls going their way, doesn't matter. If they both end the year with one loss, it's obvious who has a better resume. You only play 4 teams with winning records and go 3-1. Your best wins are Arkansas, Auburn, and Penn state versus Baylor, Kansas State, Texas, and pending Oklahoma. Better body of work should play for national championship that's all I'm saying.Comment -
If you were such a big time gambler then you would be analyzing the match-up to find value, but yet you claim to make money gambling all the while whinning about Bama's rematch. A real money making gambler would post his play or post nothing at all, not argue why some other team deserves a chance.
I will give credit where it is due...great post about UGA/LSU, spot onComment -
Okl St belongs in final game
Bama did not even have to play the last few weeksComment -
Of course... how can you even ask that? You think Boise State should get into the BCS ahead of TCU just because they would be favored on a neutral field?
The ACC sucks. I would still rather see V Tech.
Or of course OK St. (assuming one of those teams wins tonight).
Alabama can not win a real national championship. There is nothing they can do in one game to surpass LSU. They had their chance, at home, and they lost. There is nothing they can do against this 13-0 SEC Champion to surpass them in one game.Comment -
i think the fact that every fan outside of Alabama and Sec country would like to see a different game. Why not give Okie State a shot? Again, Bama lost at home. Give someone else a shot.Comment -
Great thread, everybody voicing their opinion without anybody getting personal.Comment
......Well said
