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		"If [LSU-Alabama] was The Game of the Century, then I want my 100 years back...these two teams deserve a BCS championship rematch like Kim Kardashian deserves to keep her wedding gifts" (espn.go.com)		266
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RumsfeldsReplacement

2011-11-06 08:13:42 AM

If the BCS allows LSU and Alabama to play each other again for the national championship while there are still other undefeated teams, every single one of those undefeated teams should sue the shiat out of the BCS and the NCAA.

IKanHazaBukkit

2011-11-06 08:14:04 AM

Casual football fans are upset that the game was a defensive, and strategic one between two generals and their players? Who gives a fark, that was the best defensive ball I've ever seen on a collegiate level.

WhackingDay

2011-11-06 08:14:10 AM

Awww... you mean they didn't score a bajillion points? Wasn't the hype surrounding this game the fact that both teams ranked in the top 5 in total defense?

TheWhoppah

2011-11-06 08:14:24 AM

Boring game. Inept offense.
Alabama managed to score fewer points against LSU than Oregon, west Virginia, Florida, Auburn, Tennessee and Kentucky.
... and Alabama was the home team.

Igor Jakovsky

2011-11-06 08:15:11 AM

If I was Bama's field goal kicker, I think I'd GTFO of Tuscaloosa

Ham Sandvich

2011-11-06 08:15:18 AM

That was a tough, intense game, Eat my ass, arena ball fans.

TheWhoppah

2011-11-06 08:18:07 AM

Munchausen's Proxy

2011-11-06 08:19:36 AM

Very disappointed in the offense of both teams. I don't care if they are great defenses - great teams find ways to score more than 15 combined points. I had high hopes for the game, and it flat out blew. I found myself cheering for Arkansas and OKState, because I know Boise St will get the shaft once again

TheWhoppah

2011-11-06 08:21:51 AM

A low scoring game isn't always a sign of excellent defense. Two weeks ago the Cleveland Browns defeated the Seattle Seahawks 6 - 3.

The Alabama vs LSU game wasn't all about good defense; there was a healthy dose of 2nd tier offense. Neither team should be ranked in the top 5.

Cheops

2011-11-06 08:23:22 AM

Look at all those people with really bad opinions.

Munchausen's Proxy

2011-11-06 08:23:54 AM

TheWhoppah: RumsfeldsReplacement: If the BCS allows LSU and Alabama to play each other again for the national championship while there are still other undefeated teams, every single one of those undefeated teams should sue the shiat out of the BCS and the NCAA.

There are 20 teams that could be undefeated if they were playing the schedule of Houston and Boise. You don't get to run the table in PeeWee league and then demand a seat at the table. Sorry.

Then the NCAA should create the schedules instead of the AD of each school. I don't see teams lining up to play Boise State, especially after beating Oklahoma in a bowl, and VaTech and Georgia. You say, "But, but they don't play anyone" When they get the chance, they beat them. Until teams schedule them and beat them, then it is just score board, and your argument falls flat.

Nabb1

2011-11-06 08:24:09 AM

ESPN has been slagging this game since it ended. Last night, Chris Fowler looked visibly irritated when Urban Meyer and David Pollack said Alabama deserved the slot in the BCS title game over Oklahoma if the other undefeateds ahead of them lost. Then on Sportscenter, the anchors were going on about the Oklahoma State-Kansas State game being "better" than the match-up featuring a tight game between number 1 and number 2. And of course this has NOTHING to do with the fact that LSU-Alabama was on CBS, and the big games Alabama and LSU have left will be on CBS meanwhile what is left of the Big XII is promoted by ESPN and ABC. This is just laughable from a network whose "analysts" were wailing and gnashing their teeth about how Ohio State and Michigan should have met in the championship game after OSU beat Michigan in a 1-2 match-up in the regular season. You may recall that Florida went on to utterly destroy, humiliate, and emasculate the perennially over-rated and over-hyped Buckeyes. Of course, the Big Ten is also one of ESPN's marketing partners, too. Screw ESPN. All they care about is marketing their product.

blindy the pirate

2011-11-06 08:24:10 AM

You can't please some people. They biatch about how there is no defense in college ball, then when a great defensive struggle happens, it is a shiatty game.

Game of the century? Maybe not. Game of the season? Definitely. Better than the tOSU -Michigan game that was the last game of the century? Yep

Tex Colorado the Arizona Assassin

2011-11-06 08:26:06 AM

Hilarious. If this game featured two teams from any other conference, everyone would be talking about how much the game sucked. Keep slurping that Kool-Aid.

ramblinwreck

2011-11-06 08:28:51 AM

RumsfeldsReplacement: If the BCS allows LSU and Alabama to play each other again for the national championship while there are still other undefeated teams, every single one of those undefeated teams should sue the shiat out of the BCS and the NCAA.

This mentality irritates the shiat out of me. Boise State fans seem to be the worst of the petulant and pretentious children of late. Just like when Steve Young was whining and crying in front of a Congressional committee because his pour, pour BYU Cougars were consistently left out of the BCS. "We play a weak schedule and we demand to be treated as equals!"

ramblinwreck

2011-11-06 08:30:14 AM

Pratty

2011-11-06 08:30:32 AM

I didn't watch but a bit of the game while eating, but...HOW many field goals did Alabama miss?

It seemed like a decent game, but no Game of the Century.

/2007 Fiesta Bowl
//Everyone went HOLY shiat.

SkankyB

2011-11-06 08:31:51 AM

Tex Colorado the Arizona Assassin: Hilarious. If this game featured two teams from any other conference, everyone would be talking about how much the game sucked. Keep slurping that Kool-Aid.

Agreed. If it were two Big Ten teams, the entire south would biatch and moan about the "2 yards and a cloud of dust" football that was going on.

HaywoodJablonski

2011-11-06 08:34:52 AM

It's easy to boast a great defense when your conference has no offense

Nabb1

2011-11-06 08:36:09 AM

Tex Colorado the Arizona Assassin: Hilarious. If this game featured two teams from any other conference, everyone would be talking about how much the game sucked. Keep slurping that Kool-Aid.

Whether or not it was a good game (and I think it was very dramatic, but not well-played) is a completely different issue from whether or not those two teams are the best in the country. Certainly either one is far better than Oklahoma.

TheWhoppah

2011-11-06 08:36:47 AM

Munchausen's Proxy: I don't see teams lining up to play Boise State

Boise State only has a shiatty schedule because they want a shiatty schedule.

BSU demands a million dollar travel-only payday but a "home-and-home" is a bullshiat option since Boise is a terrible road location. Their entire stadium has only 35,000 seats, the city is in the middle of nowhere and it is really farking cold the second half of the season. Boise could play as many powerhouse teams as they wanted if they accepted normal payday games like the Louisiana Lafayette, Middle Tennessee or Eastern Michigan.

MisterLoki

2011-11-06 08:38:30 AM

It was a perfectly fine game. Off the top of my head USC vs. Texas, OSU vs. Miami, & Boise St. vs OU were all better games.

HaywoodJablonski

2011-11-06 08:40:34 AM

MisterLoki: It was a perfectly fine game. Off the top of my head USC vs. Texas, OSU vs. Miami, & Boise St. vs OU were all better games.

Auburn versus Utah State was better

Ham Sandvich

2011-11-06 08:40:46 AM

ramblinwreck: RumsfeldsReplacement: If the BCS allows LSU and Alabama to play each other again for the national championship while there are still other undefeated teams, every single one of those undefeated teams should sue the shiat out of the BCS and the NCAA.

This mentality irritates the shiat out of me. Boise State fans seem to be the worst of the petulant and pretentious children of late. Just like when Steve Young was whining and crying in front of a Congressional committee because his pour, pour BYU Cougars were consistently left out of the BCS. "We play a weak schedule and we demand to be treated as equals!"

With the nutty realignment going on and the constant gripes from mid-majors about never getting a shot, I think there's need to be a top-down readjustment of conferences. 5 or 6 regional Big Time conferences attached to regional Small Time conferences, with a promotion and relegation clause.

The TV money is too good for some teams to let that happen and I'm sure some people will whine about tradition.

Tex Colorado the Arizona Assassin

2011-11-06 08:42:35 AM

Munchausen's Proxy

2011-11-06 08:43:29 AM

ramblinwreck

2011-11-06 08:44:46 AM

Komplex

2011-11-06 08:45:04 AM

TheWhoppah:
BSU demands a million dollar travel-only payday but a "home-and-home" is a bullshiat option since Boise is a terrible road location. Their entire stadium has only 35,000 seats, the city is in the middle of nowhere and it is really farking cold the second half of the season. Boise could play as many powerhouse teams as they wanted if they accepted normal payday games like the Louisiana Lafayette, Middle Tennessee or Eastern Michigan.

This is why you lost the Civil War.

ramblinwreck

2011-11-06 08:46:18 AM

Munchausen's Proxy: TheWhoppah: Munchausen's Proxy: I don't see teams lining up to play Boise State

Boise State only has a shiatty schedule because they want a shiatty schedule.

BSU demands a million dollar travel-only payday but a "home-and-home" is a bullshiat option since Boise is a terrible road location. Their entire stadium has only 35,000 seats, the city is in the middle of nowhere and it is really farking cold the second half of the season. Boise could play as many powerhouse teams as they wanted if they accepted normal payday games like the Louisiana Lafayette, Middle Tennessee or Eastern Michigan.

Again, how does VaTech and UGA fit your argument? The traveled, played and won. Wasn't UGA ranked in the top ten when they played? Either play them or shut up about them, They have consistently won against BCS teams, yet all anyone hears is they "have not proven themselves yet". How many more top 25 teams do they have to beat? Really, what is the number?

Playing one BCS caliber team per year doesn't qualify one for a BCS championship when everyone else is playing 6-10 a year.

blindy the pirate

2011-11-06 08:47:44 AM

Tex Colorado the Arizona Assassin: Hilarious. If this game featured two teams from any other conference, everyone would be talking about how much the game sucked. Keep slurping that Kool-Aid.

Everyone IS biatching about how this game sucked. I am not even close to being a SEC homer, but it played out as advertised. A defense dominated game against two titans.

Someone said it better the the thread yesterday; other conferences put their best talent on offense, the SEC puts theirs on defense.

TheWhoppah

2011-11-06 08:52:34 AM

Munchausen's Proxy: How many more top 25 teams do they have to beat? Really, what is the number?

They need to be undefeated.
They need to beat two top-10 teams and at least 1 more top-25 team.
At least one of those defeated teams needs to be a 1 loss team that is STILL be in the top 10 at the end of the year.
The other must have no more than 2 lossess, must be in the top 20, and both losses to top 25 teams.
Thats really what it will take before BSU has a legit arument for the title game.
This is not so hard. It is what deserving teams do every year.

velvet_fog

2011-11-06 08:52:37 AM

TheWhoppah: Munchausen's Proxy: I don't see teams lining up to play Boise State

Boise State only has a shiatty schedule because they want a shiatty schedule.

BSU demands a million dollar travel-only payday but a "home-and-home" is a bullshiat option since Boise is a terrible road location. Their entire stadium has only 35,000 seats, the city is in the middle of nowhere and it is really farking cold the second half of the season. Boise could play as many powerhouse teams as they wanted if they accepted normal payday games like the Louisiana Lafayette, Middle Tennessee or Eastern Michigan.

A playoff could go along way in solving this issue. It would force Boise to defeat 3-4 (depending on how many teams are in the tournament) of the best teams in the country in a row to win a championship. Boise can beat anyone on a single game basis. But can they survive the gantlet of 3-4 ranked teams in a row? A playoff could answer that. Bowls can't.

My feeling is that FBS should contract from 120 teams down to about 80-90 in eight conferences, put in a playoff and have every conference champ and eight at-large bids selected by a committee similar to the one for NCAA basketball (which really does a phenomenal job almost every year) in a 16-team playoff.

Will there be flaws? Yep. Is it better than the BCS? Anything is better than the BCS, whose sole purpose is to get the most appealing bowl match-up for TV and not match the two best teams in the country, which are probably still LSU and Alabama.

Tex Colorado the Arizona Assassin

2011-11-06 08:53:11 AM

More "Boise asks for too much money" FAIL: The University at Buffalo got $900,000 to play at Tennessee Link (new window). Buffalo is getting $975,000 to play at Georgia Link (new window)

Why shouldn't Boise get a million? Tennessee actually would have made more money if they scheduled Boise. There were about 15,000 empty seats for the Buffalo game. Those seats wouldn't have been empty for a Boise game.

starlost

2011-11-06 08:57:42 AM

no way. if this had been played in a blizzard or monsoon the stats would have made sense but.....
fta
Classics don't have four interceptions, four missed field goals, 13 penalties, one fumble, one botched punt return and zero touchdowns. A punter shouldn't be the best player on the field in a classic.

YouWinAgainGravity

2011-11-06 08:58:22 AM

RumsfeldsReplacement: If the BCS allows LSU and Alabama to play each other again for the national championship while there are still other undefeated teams, every single one of those undefeated teams should sue the shiat out of the BCS and the NCAA.

It pains me to say anything that might be interpreted as defending the BCS, but if a rematch happens, it won't really be their fault or because they 'allow' it. It will be completely on the uninformed, shiatty voters in the Coaches/Harris polls. Alabama won't get back up to #2 unless those voters decide to put a team that isn't even going to win its own division that high on their ballots.

Gonz

2011-11-06 08:59:17 AM

If you watched a minute of that game, you know that both defenses came to flat-out play.

As one of my friends put it, I have bruises just from watching.

machodonkeywrestler

2011-11-06 08:59:38 AM

Munchausen's Proxy 2011-11-06 08:43:29 AM
TheWhoppah: Munchausen's Proxy: I don't see teams lining up to play Boise State

Boise State only has a shiatty schedule because they want a shiatty schedule.

BSU demands a million dollar travel-only payday but a "home-and-home" is a bullshiat option since Boise is a terrible road location. Their entire stadium has only 35,000 seats, the city is in the middle of nowhere and it is really farking cold the second half of the season. Boise could play as many powerhouse teams as they wanted if they accepted normal payday games like the Louisiana Lafayette, Middle Tennessee or Eastern Michigan.

Again, how does VaTech and UGA fit your argument? The traveled, played and won. Wasn't UGA ranked in the top ten when they played? Either play them or shut up about them, They have consistently won against BCS teams, yet all anyone hears is they "have not proven themselves yet". How many more top 25 teams do they have to beat? Really, what is the number?

UGA was absolutely horrid at the beginning of the season (their ranking was a preseason ranking), so I really don't think a 2 touchdown win over them is anything to brag about. If they were in the SEC West, the would be the 4th or 5th best team.

TheWhoppah

2011-11-06 09:01:21 AM

velvet_fog: A playoff could go along way in solving this issue

I don't fully agree. A playoff does not determine which team was best this season, it only determines which of several good teams got hot at a lukcy time. For example, the Cardinals just squeaked into the baseball playoffs on the last day of the 162 game season. The Cardinals played well in September but this would never have been possible without an epic collapse by the Braves. The Cardinals went on to win the World Series but they were not the best team in baseball this year... not even second best.

Baryogenesis

2011-11-06 09:02:43 AM

TheWhoppah: Boring game. Inept offense.
Alabama managed to score fewer points against LSU than Oregon, west Virginia, Florida, Auburn, Tennessee and Kentucky.
... and Alabama was the home team.

We have a winner. The defense, while great, doesn't completely excuse the lame offense.

HaywoodJablonski: MisterLoki: It was a perfectly fine game. Off the top of my head USC vs. Texas, OSU vs. Miami, & Boise St. vs OU were all better games.

Auburn versus Utah State was better

Stanford-USC triple OT

Tex Colorado the Arizona Assassin: The real reason nobody will schedule Boise? They're chickenshiat.

There's no reason to. If they beat Boise then it won't matter because people will say Boise plays in a weak conference and they were never as strong as people thought. If they lose to Boise then you just lost to a team from a weak conference, oh, and you paid them for the privilege. There's no doubt the system sucks. Boise can't get a fair shake and fans miss out on potentially great football. However, just because the system sucks doesn't mean Boise gets a free pass on the weak schedule.

Tex Colorado the Arizona Assassin

2011-11-06 09:03:08 AM

GimpyNip: I'd feel like a pretty big loser cheering on some college I didn't attend.

THIS x1000

It amuses me to no end when some mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, double-digit IQ wonder says something to me when Syracuse loses a game. If you've never been inside the bursar's office of the university you cheer for, I don't give a shiat about what you have to say.

TheWhoppah

2011-11-06 09:04:28 AM

velvet_fog: Anything is better than the BCS, whose sole purpose is to get the most appealing bowl match-up for TV

Football is entertainment. The purpose of the BCS is to maximize the entertainment value of football. What's the problem?

HaywoodJablonski

2011-11-06 09:04:38 AM

TheWhoppah: Munchausen's Proxy: How many more top 25 teams do they have to beat? Really, what is the number?

They need to be undefeated.
They need to beat two top-10 teams and at least 1 more top-25 team.
At least one of those defeated teams needs to be a 1 loss team that is STILL be in the top 10 at the end of the year.
The other must have no more than 2 lossess, must be in the top 20, and both losses to top 25 teams.
Thats really what it will take before BSU has a legit arument for the title game.
This is not so hard. It is what deserving teams do every year.

media.columbiamissourian.com

Kurmudgeon

2011-11-06 09:04:52 AM

Corporate ball, College division will get what it wants, fark ya if you think different.

YouWinAgainGravity

2011-11-06 09:05:59 AM

Can we please stop with the 'nobody will schedule Boise' garbage? It's as ridiculous as the 'Boise would be the 4th or 5th best team in the SEC west' arguments. They've had a ranked BCS opponent every year now for awhile.

DontSpitOnMyMind

2011-11-06 09:06:11 AM

"The Game of the Century" featured four missed fieldgoals. To LSU's credit, one was blocked. When a team missed three field goals by their own hand, it doesn't make for a good game. It makes for a sloppy game. The idea of this being the best game of the year/century should also be compared to the Seattle vs Cleveland game in week 7 this year, as it was "the worst game in years".

dalbuc

2011-11-06 09:06:29 AM

I'm of the little bit of both opinions. There was great defense played....on the running games. Both teams can run the ball and the fact that that didn't work all that well is a credit to both defenses. Neither passing game was shut down by great defense as much as just inept offense and particularly bad QB play. Even against the vaunted LSU secondary there were plays to be had and the Bama QB just missed them. Lee had a pair of brainfarts and Jefferson couldn't throw the ball in the ocean from the beach so Miles never let him really try.

I suspect in the end those are the two best teams in the country because I don't think OSU or Stanford can stop the run well enough to expose the QB's on either team to the situation where they have to win the game.

Baryogenesis

2011-11-06 09:06:44 AM

TheWhoppah: velvet_fog: A playoff could go along way in solving this issue

I don't fully agree. A playoff does not determine which team was best this season, it only determines which of several good teams got hot at a lukcy time. For example, the Cardinals just squeaked into the baseball playoffs on the last day of the 162 game season. The Cardinals played well in September but this would never have been possible without an epic collapse by the Braves. The Cardinals went on to win the World Series but they were not the best team in baseball this year... not even second best.

The best team isn't decided at the end of the regular season for a reason. Or maybe we should give Lebron and the Cavs a few rings...

blindy the pirate

2011-11-06 09:07:42 AM

Tex Colorado the Arizona Assassin: More "Boise asks for too much money" FAIL: The University at Buffalo got $900,000 to play at Tennessee Link (new window). Buffalo is getting $975,000 to play at Georgia Link (new window)

Why shouldn't Boise get a million? Tennessee actually would have made more money if they scheduled Boise. There were about 15,000 empty seats for the Buffalo game. Those seats wouldn't have been empty for a Boise game.

Putting Boise in the group with Buffalo, New Mexico State isn't helping the cause. The paycheck games are scheduled as automatic wins. Boise is going to have become road warriors, and not expect to be paid for it. If they can't get games scheduled then, it would be a legitimate argument

MtnByker

2011-11-06 09:09:51 AM

Tex Colorado the Arizona Assassin: More "Boise asks for too much money" FAIL: The University at Buffalo got $900,000 to play at Tennessee Link (new window). Buffalo is getting $975,000 to play at Georgia Link (new window)

Why shouldn't Boise get a million? Tennessee actually would have made more money if they scheduled Boise. There were about 15,000 empty seats for the Buffalo game. Those seats wouldn't have been empty for a Boise game.

Because they want a one and one thrown in. If they get a million to go to big school to play, everyone gets money. But Boise wants the big school to play at there house which means crap money. They keep hiding behind this and until they actual play a better schedule they should be kept out of the top 10.

influx

2011-11-06 09:11:38 AM

HaywoodJablonski: It's easy to boast a great defense when your conference has no offense

You guys make this claim every year. Yet every year the nation throws its best offense at the SEC champ in the BCS Championship and what happens?

See: '06 Ohio St, '07 Ohio State, '08 Oklahoma, '09 Texas

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