BCS Championship Game - #1 LSU vs. #2 Alabama

[ViRGE]

Christ, that was boring. I have to imagine that's what watching baseball during the dead-ball era was like.

 

[Muse]

I think if Musberger says 'honeybadger' one more time I'm going to puke

Oh, you mean I missed a chance to hear Musberger call a blowout? Lucky I don't have subscription TV.

Big Alabama fan I know said "we backed into the championship game." Guess LSU is really as bad as they looked in that other game, the one where they stank the first half and only pulled it out at the end. They really should have a tournament to decide the national championship. The BCS stuff has to go. The NCAA basketball tournament is so much better in terms of being a reasonable competition.

 

[ElFenix]

lol@this abortion

i hope they got terrible ratings and they realize they should never do this again

 

[mcmilljb]

Oh, you mean I missed a chance to hear Musberger call a blowout? Lucky I don't have subscription TV.

Big Alabama fan I know said "we backed into the championship game." Guess LSU is really as bad as they looked in that other game, the one where they stank the first half and only pulled it out at the end. They really should have a tournament to decide the national championship. The BCS stuff has to go. The NCAA basketball tournament is so much better in terms of being a reasonable competition.

You know what's funny? ESPN had analysts railing against the NCAA basketball tourney when George Mason made it to the Final Four. I think I even saw a newspaper complaining about it that year. The NCAA basketball tourney is a great format. You have to show up for every game otherwise you're going home.

However, a playoff probably wouldn't have settled this any better. LSU would have beat Stanford, and Alabama would have beat Oklahoma State. Then we would end up with this same game.

 

[manly]

However, a playoff probably wouldn't have settled this any better. LSU would have beat Stanford, and Alabama would have beat Oklahoma State. Then we would end up with this same game.

That's definitely better than the debate over whether 2 teams from the same division should be playing in the title game. Or whether #2, #3 or perhaps even #4 in a subjective ranking formula is deserving of being in that game.

Stanford was a make-able field goal from winning the Fiesta Bowl in regulation. I wouldn't be so sure that LSU beats them. And wouldn't you relish seeing if OK State (or perhaps an NFL team) can score on this Alabama defense? How can you be certain the same rematch arises?

The main problem with a 4 team playoff is that Boise State will still get relegated to some No Name game through no major fault of its own. If there's a say a 12-team playoff, all the lesser bowl games would disappear, for better (or worse). I'd advocate for 8-team playoffs and let the remaining bowl games fend for themselves.

 

[blurredvision]

However, a playoff probably wouldn't have settled this any better. LSU would have beat Stanford, and Alabama would have beat Oklahoma State. Then we would end up with this same game.

You'd still have arguing over seeding, but at least these teams would have a chance to play their way into the championship game instead of being forced to play in a bowl that history will forget about. The ONLY way to make it fair is to have teams play each other and settle it on the field.

 

[Sinsear]

College football and the bcs is a joke.

 

[MadRat]

LSU and Alabama played a weak schedule as the SEC was down this year. Neither team would have survived the 3rd and 4th ranked teams because neither had a threat to score on offense. The latter pair of teams had plenty of firepower to score. The only way to avoid exposing the SEC was to avoid competition. Look at South Carolina, they somehow got matched to play a weak Nebraska team when they deserved a top ten opponent if the SEC was so good.

 

[Via]

Shaun Alexander's tweet really summed it up for me. I think it was something to the effect of:

"A lot of people love Football. In Alabama we live it." Take what you want from that.

Maybe they have it right down there - life is short, enjoy it. It's better to work at a 7/11 and live in a trailer with a roommate, hang out with your friends playing poker and wathcing UFC every night, and live for college football Saturdays than to get stuck with a boring "real" job that takes up 50-60 hours a week and allows you no time for friends and family.

 

[edro]

Yeah the game sucked (second half was better), but I don't see why everyone hates the BCS this year in particular.
Just because a team lost a game, they should not be eliminated from the title game.
I don't give a crap if they didn't win their division... it's because LSU did and it was their only loss!

The BCS Championship isn't about whether or not you lost a game, it's about putting the 2 best teams against each other.

Alabama appeared to be greatly better (we will never know for sure) than Oregon, Arkansas, Standford, etc. I'm glad they got into the Championship game and won.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Sorry your team sucked so bad, get over it.

I'm not an LSU fan. Where did you get that from?

 

[Fingolfin269]

lol@this abortion

i hope they got terrible ratings and they realize they should never do this again

Should never do what again? Have the two best teams play each other?

 

[Fingolfin269]

LSU and Alabama played a weak schedule as the SEC was down this year. Neither team would have survived the 3rd and 4th ranked teams because neither had a threat to score on offense. The latter pair of teams had plenty of firepower to score. The only way to avoid exposing the SEC was to avoid competition. Look at South Carolina, they somehow got matched to play a weak Nebraska team when they deserved a top ten opponent if the SEC was so good.

Played a week schedule? I've already written it about 3 times in this thread but maybe I'm missing something. LSU beat the winner of the Orange and Rose bowls? What more should they have to do out of conference in order to prove anything?

Some people will never be satisfied. We need a playoff. Even then I'm not sure people will be satisfied.

 

[Fingolfin269]

The main problem with a 4 team playoff is that Boise State will still get relegated to some No Name game through no major fault of its own.

Boise State. Man screw those guys. This was the year!!! If only they could have gone undefeated I'm 99% sure they would have been playing LSU last night.

 

[dmcowen674]

The BCS Championship isn't about whether or not you lost a game, it's about putting the 2 best teams against each other.

The BCS will always be a joke until it adopts an NFL playoff system.

 

[pcgeek11]

LSU and Alabama played a weak schedule as the SEC was down this year. Neither team would have survived the 3rd and 4th ranked teams because neither had a threat to score on offense. The latter pair of teams had plenty of firepower to score. The only way to avoid exposing the SEC was to avoid competition. Look at South Carolina, they somehow got matched to play a weak Nebraska team when they deserved a top ten opponent if the SEC was so good.

This is the funniest post in this whole thread.

Weak schedule? How many ranked teams did LSU beat>>>> That would be 9 top 25 teams and won 8 of them, and they beat most of them by a good margin.

Alabama played 6 top 25 teams and won 5 of them..., and they beat all of them by a good margin.


Weak schedule my ass.

 

[rcpratt]

I'm interested to see last night's ratings.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I'm interested to see last night's ratings.

It looks like bowl ratings have been down across the board this season. Pulled the following from LA Times:

The four BCS bowls--the Rose, Orange, Sugar and Fiesta--drew a average rating of 10.9, well below last season's combined average of 13.9.

Does anyone remember if the national championship was on cable last year as well? If not then I'm sure the ratings are not going to fare well in comparison. It may very well go down as the most watched cable program though.

 

[BAMAVOO]

Yeah the game sucked (second half was better), but I don't see why everyone hates the BCS this year in particular.
Just because a team lost a game, they should not be eliminated from the title game.
I don't give a crap if they didn't win their division... it's because LSU did and it was their only loss!

The BCS Championship isn't about whether or not you lost a game, it's about putting the 2 best teams against each other.

Alabama appeared to be greatly better (we will never know for sure) than Oregon,Arkansas, Standford, etc. I'm glad they got into the Championship game and won.

Bama beat Arkansas 38-14

 

[SP33Demon]

LSU and Alabama played a weak schedule as the SEC was down this year. Neither team would have survived the 3rd and 4th ranked teams because neither had a threat to score on offense. The latter pair of teams had plenty of firepower to score. The only way to avoid exposing the SEC was to avoid competition. Look at South Carolina, they somehow got matched to play a weak Nebraska team when they deserved a top ten opponent if the SEC was so good.

I see you're a Huskers fan, that partly explains it.

LSU didn't play a weak schedule, do you watch college football? They crushed two of the highest powered offenses in college football, Oregon with the best running back in the country LaMicheal James and WVU with the #1 all purpose player in the country Tavon Austin. Maybe you missed highlights of the Rose and Orange Bowls where Oregon had 621 yards/45 points and WVU had a record 70 points (10 TDs) vs NCAA's "coach of the year" on Clemson.

No offense but your post qualifies as the dumbest I've read all week.

 

[SP33Demon]

It looks like bowl ratings have been down across the board this season. Pulled the following from LA Times:



Does anyone remember if the national championship was on cable last year as well? If not then I'm sure the ratings are not going to fare well in comparison. It may very well go down as the most watched cable program though.

Don't remember what last year's drew. Tebow vs Steelers drew a 25.9 rating to put things into perspective.

 

[dbk]

Shaun Alexander's tweet really summed it up for me. I think it was something to the effect of:

"A lot of people love Football. In Alabama we live it." Take what you want from that.

Maybe they have it right down there - life is short, enjoy it. It's better to work at a 7/11 and live in a trailer with a roommate, hang out with your friends playing poker and wathcing UFC every night, and live for college football Saturdays than to get stuck with a boring "real" job that takes up 50-60 hours a week and allows you no time for friends and family.

that's sad

 

[MadRat]

Alabama should have been in the game. They weren't even runner up in their own conference. /sarcasm

 

[NeoV]

MadRat - please stop posting in college football threads - you are clearly out of your league

 

[tmc]

disclaimer - i support bama.

whether bama should have been in the title game is debatable - but, the battle between bama and lsu is clearly won by bama. the loss to lsu involved some luck as bama missed some opportunities - in other words, bama lost it, rather than lsu won it. this game was all bama. period.

yes, a playoff from:

conference champions of: ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12, and SEC
wild cards: 6 teams

so, a total of 12 teams - just like current NFL (6+6 in the two conferences) - battling it out in playoffs would work.

having said that - i honestly don't think any of the other teams could have stood up to bama/lsu. they would get pulverized.