Alabama vs LSU for the NC?? Not so fast my friend...

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Lots of football yet to be played...
Saturday, Nov 19 #4 Oregon vs USC
Saturday, Nov 19 #5 OU vs #22 Baylor
Saturday, Nov 19 #6 Arkansas vs MSU

Other games of interest with (possible) NC implications...
Friday, Nov 25, #1 LSU vs #6 Arkansas
Saturday, Nov 26 #3 Alabama @ #24 Auburn (Iron Bowl)
Saturday, Nov 26 #4 Oregon vs OSU
Saturday, Nov 26 #5 OU vs Iowa State
Saturday, Nov 26 #7 Clemson* @ #12 So. Carolina
Saturday, Dec 03, #5 OU vs #2 Ok State
*Longshot

#8 VT, #9 Stanford, and #10 Boise State are out of it.

As the ol' saying goes, "It's not over until the fat lady sings". She's just getting warmed up...
 
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OU reeeeealllly needed Ok St to be ranked 2 when they played.

Being ranked lower than them wont help as much
 
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All Alabama has to do is win out, and they probably won't even have to play in the seccg to do it.

Oregon and Oklahoma don't have enough to build enough points to overtake bama.

It's happening.
 
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True, but that's the beauty of it all...anything can AND, more times than not, does happen. That's why they play the game, right?
 
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To me if you can't even win your side of the conference you don't deserve to play for the BCS Champ. Your punishing LSU by playing an extra game and Bama loses to LSU and doesn't have to play the extra game LSU would have to play. Just can't understand how this is remotely fair.
 
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jasonvol18 said:
To me if you can't even win your side of the conference you don't deserve to play for the BCS Champ. Your punishing LSU by playing an extra game and Bama loses to LSU and doesn't have to play the extra game LSU would have to play. Just can't understand how this is remotely fair.
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I feel the same way. However, it's also not fair that other conferences that don't have a championship game are allowed to play for the BCS title game either. There should definitely be a playoff scenario to keep it fair.
 
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The only "upsets" I'm seeing (if you can call it that) are SC over Clemson and OU over OKST. Other than that...
 
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davethevol said:
I feel the same way. However, it's also not fair that other conferences that don't have a championship game are allowed to play for the BCS title game either. There should definitely be a playoff scenario to keep it fair.
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I agree with that as well..Oregon or Oklahoma if they both win out should go over Bama. JMO and I would say that if it was UT. But if they do rematch it will be in LSUs territory.
 
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govols120 said:
The only "upsets" I'm seeing (if you can call it that) are SC over Clemson and OU over OKST. Other than that...
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I like USC (play loose w/ nothing to lose) over UO. Also, Alabama vs Auburn, the 'Barnies too have nothing to lose I expect HCGC and OCGM to (completely) open it up in the Iron Bowl. JMO
 
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I know it is not likely to happen but what if LSU loses in the SEC championship. I would say that unless the just get killed they should still be 1 or 2 since they have already beat the first 2 teams behind them. So that would potentially leave the SEC champ in the BCS with LSU and Bama 1 and 2. There can only be 2 schools from the same conference in the BCS games right? So what do they do?
 
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HCVF said:
I know it is not likely to happen but what if LSU loses in the SEC championship. I would say that unless the just get killed they should still be 1 or 2 since they have already beat the first 2 teams behind them. So that would potentially leave the SEC champ in the BCS with LSU and Bama 1 and 2. There can only be 2 schools from the same conference in the BCS games right? So what do they do?
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Losing to UGA wont still leave them at 1 or 2.

You want to go your scenario though, there's a rule in the BCS in case such happens. If a conference has an AQ bid won by a team and neither the 1 nor 2 team overall is winner of said conference championship automatic qualifier, than the BCS can take 3 teams from that conference
 
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Or worded a bit more clearly:

No more than two teams from any one conference may receive berths in BCS games unless two non-champions from a BCS conference finish as the top two teams in the final BCS standings, in which case they will meet in the National Title Game while their conference champion will play in their conference's BCS bowl game.
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jasonvol18 said:
I agree with that as well..Oregon or Oklahoma if they both win out should go over Bama. JMO and I would say that if it was UT. But if they do rematch it will be in LSUs territory.
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Well...if they took Oregon it would just be a rematch as well...Remember LSU and Oregon faced off. Also, OU lost to a horrible Texas Tech team. They're the worst one lost team imo.
 
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Bama/LSU II would be the best for the fans viewing pleasure. It would also be the two best teams squaring off which is the whole point of the BCS. I know people were disappoint with the first game, but if you go back the last 4 years all of the games have came down to the end.
 
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IMO, Bama vs LSU II would be a much better game than #1.

Both teams would know how to handle defenses a little better. Bama would win 24-17.
 
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BigPapaCat said:
IMO, Bama vs LSU II would be a much better game than #1.

Both teams would know how to handle defenses a little better. Bama would win 24-17.
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Or if 96 UF FSU was any indication, Alabama runs away with it before the 3rds even over and it ends up a 20-30 pt win at game's end
 
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TrueOrange said:
Or if 96 UF FSU was any indication, Alabama runs away with it before the 3rds even over and it ends up a 20-30 pt win at game's end
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But, everyone must admit that Les is a great coach. They will lose, but Les will calm his players down and LSU will play a good 2nd half to make it reasonable.
 
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BigPapaCat said:
But, everyone must admit that Les is a great coach. They will lose, but Les will calm his players down and LSU will play a good 2nd half to make it reasonable.
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Not so much an issue of whether les is a good coach or not. It's just the case tends to be that when you're given rematches like these that the team who earlier lost a close game (esp if from mistakes and miscues) they come out with a big chip on their shoulder; not only to play mistake free but as to win by so much that the previous game looks like an accident


....actually more times than not it seems the rematch of a good game is a blow out and vice versa; you just don't often get 2 good/great games
 
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TrueOrange said:
....actually more times than not it seems the rematch of a good game is a blow out and vice versa; you just don't often get 2 good/great games
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I dont think this will ring true for this match. I cant see a Bama or LSU defense giving up more than 30 points. At best i predict a 20 point swing for Bama.
 
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BigPapaCat said:
I dont think this will ring true for this match. I cant see a Bama or LSU defense giving up more than 30 points. At best i predict a 20 point swing for Bama.
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Then bama winning by 20 something?...just saying, statistically more times than not, 2nd matchup of a close or messy game has quite a tendency to end up one-sided (as well as vice versa)
 
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TrueOrange said:
Then bama winning by 20 something?...just saying, statistically more times than not, 2nd matchup of a close or messy game has quite a tendency to end up one-sided (as well as vice versa)
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I agree. But as said before...I personally dont see the defenses giving up much. Both these teams have quite a few future NFL players. If anyone wins by a lot...then Bama, because they are gonna be so pumped.
 
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