For its latest trick, the BCS renders the SEC title game moot
"Is this the year you have to win your conference or the year you don't?" (AP photo)
Q: When is a conference championship really just a exhibition game?
A: When the BCS “system,” whatever that happens to be in a given year, gets its maladroit hands on it.
LSU faces Georgia for the SEC title Saturday at the Georgia Dome. If LSU wins, it will play for the BCS title. If LSU loses, it figures to play for the BCS title anyway.
This is college football, where we’re told Every Game Counts. This year another big fat asterisk gets attached: Every game counts except the SEC championship, which lately has counted the most. And that’s not the worst part.
On Sunday I was speaking with Falcons center Todd McClure, who has a figurative dog in this fight. (He played at LSU.) When I mentioned that I’d rather be Alabama, which is guaranteed not to lose another game before the final BCS standings are announced, than the Tigers, he said: “Do you think that’s fair?”
No, I don’t think it’s fair. The BCS is never fair. Occasionally there comes a year in which the outcry is minimal, and invariably some talking head will say, “The BCS worked this time.” Reality check: The BCS never works. The best the BCS ever can hope is to get lucky.
Case study in inconsistency: In 2007 Georgia was ranked No. 4 in the next-to-last BCS standings. The teams ranked first and second — Missouri and West Virginia — lost on the regular season’s final weekend. Georgia didn’t play. It finished atop the SEC East but was shaded by Tennessee on a tiebreaker. LSU, which had lost its final regular-season game to Arkansas, beat the Vols for the SEC title, and the Tigers got to play for the BCS title.
LSU moved from No. 7 to No. 2. Georgia didn’t play a game and slid to No. 5. Why? Because LSU coach Les Miles kept making the point that his team had “won its conference” and because the many talking heads on ESPN took up the cry. (As we know, what’s said on ESPN has an outsize effect on college football, the only sport in which opinions matter.)
Some of the same voices who’d lobbied for an Ohio State-Michigan rematch in the 2006 BCS title game dismissed Georgia a year later because It Hadn’t Won Its Conference. Never mind that winning your conference isn’t a criterion for BCS title inclusion. Never mind that Michigan hadn’t won the Big Ten the year before. This just seemed like the thing to say at that moment in time, and by golly those ESPN chatterers kept saying it until it became reality.
Georgia wasn’t passed just by LSU but also by Oklahoma and Virginia Tech; see, the Sooners and Hokies had won their conferences. After that season, the BCS considered making a conference title a prerequisite for a berth in the BCS title game but decided against it, which is a good thing if you’re Alabama but another pie in the face if you’re a fan of consistent thought.
If you’re a BCS hater — and who isn’t? — you have to root for Georgia to beat LSU and render this ongoing farce even more farcical. Picture the incongruity: The Bulldogs hoist the SEC championship trophy on Saturday night and trot off to the Sugar Bowl to play this year’s version of Hawaii, and 24 hours later not one but two SEC non-champions get invited to the game that’s supposed to reveal the nation’s best team.
And now you’re asking: Don’t LSU and Alabama look like the nation’s top two teams? LSU has been the absolute best team from start to finish, but the Tigers still have a game to play. The Tide lost its biggest game on its home field and has beaten two teams ranked in the BCS Top 25. If Oklahoma State, which is ranked No. 3 to Alabama’s No. 2, beats Oklahoma on Saturday, the Cowboys will have beaten five Top 25 teams and will be the Big 12 champ. Should Alabama get that nod just because it plays in the almighty SEC and is, you know, Alabama?
The problem with the BCS is that it can tweak its “system” until the cows come home and never be prepared for the vagaries of a given season. And with conferences expanding to elephantine size and schedules growing more imbalanced, this will only get worse. Four years ago Georgia was penalized for not playing in the SEC title game; this time Alabama could be handed a de facto semifinal bye.
Do I think the BCS is fair? Yes indeed. A fairly Big Crock of Sludge.
By Mark Bradley
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Soon to be whupped pup
November 28th, 2011
11:19 pm
Is it too late for UGA to back out of the seccg? Can we disinvite ourselves and maybe ask S. Carolina to step in. I hate to imagine to arse whupping that is going to be heaped upon the pups.
Blackoutanyone?
November 28th, 2011
11:19 pm
Joe Bob Thibodaux………….Saban would curb stomp Les Miles in a game of paper rock sissors. I think a hard core strategy game such as battle ship could settle this.
get ur facts straight
November 28th, 2011
11:23 pm
Bama played most of the same teams as the Dawgs but the Dawgs had better stats. Dawgs held UF and UT to negative yardage rushing. Niether Bammer or LSWho did that. Ole Missy? Please Vandy and Uk are better. And, UGA played MSU better than LSWho
01HAWK
November 28th, 2011
11:23 pm
What color helmet and jersey will you DAWGS wear Saturday …………………LOL
Joe Bob Thibodaux
November 28th, 2011
11:24 pm
Blackoutanyone?
Hummm. I didn’t think of that.
Good idea. We could take a guess of what Bullwinkle would pull from his sleeve. You never know.
Winner take all.
Paul in NH
November 28th, 2011
11:24 pm
Blackoutanyone?
November 28th, 2011
11:05 pm
A plus one system is the only way to go. A full blown playoff would ruin the regular season. If you can’t finish in the top 4 then you probably have at least 2 losses and don’t deserve a shot.
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There are currently 7 Div 1 teams with 1 loss or less and at least 5 of them (LSU, Alabama, Stanford, Houston, Boise State) and probably at least one couple (VT) will end up with less than 2 losses after the conference championship games.
Red Stick
November 28th, 2011
11:27 pm
Yes TR, this is formerly Jumbeauxtiger. I got tired of having to type out so many letters.
Where you been since last Spring? 5IML seems to have been in hibernation until lately.
Joe Bob Thibodaux
November 28th, 2011
11:30 pm
Thibodaux, Bullwinkle pulls things from a hat not from his sleeve.
Red Stick
November 28th, 2011
11:31 pm
GTBob, a 9-9 regular season conference record for Connecticut, the NCAA basketball winner, is about like imagining 6-6 Ohio State winning college football’s national championship. Doesn’t seem right does it?
My point is with playoffs it could be flawed too just as the BCS.
A plus one model seems like a start to at least improve the system.
Tide Rising
November 28th, 2011
11:32 pm
get ur facts straight,
Son I think you need to get your facts straight. Bama and UGA had 5 common opponents- AU, Ole Miss, Miss state, Florida, UT, and Vandy. 5 of those 6 opponents Alabama beat by substantially greater margins. Same with LSU. Whatever common opponents they had as Georgia you can be pretty well assured that LSU dominated the majority of those teams by far greater margins than the dawgs. Hell the dawgs were damn lucky just to slide by Vandy. And a 9 point win over Kentucky? Seriously? I think we or LSU would beaten them by 50. MSU is the only team that Georgia played better than LSU. LSU substantially whupped Ole Miss, UT, Florida, by far greater margins. Damn some of you dawg fans are stupid.
Blackoutanyone?
November 28th, 2011
11:35 pm
Paul in NH…. of the six you named Stanford was destroyed at HOME by USC. Houston plays in Conference USA and has played no one. Boise St. went 1-1 this season against the only semi competetive competition on their schedule with a loss to TCU. You really want to ruin the whole regular season so a school like Houston who has played no one or some two loss school can have a shot at the National Title? Plus one would maintain everything that is great about college football and open the Title game up to more teams.
Blackoutanyone?
November 28th, 2011
11:38 pm
Paul in NH… further more all loses in college football are not equal. Such as losing a game to unranked Iowa State is not equal to losing a game to #1 ranked LSU in OT by 3 points.
Tide Rising
November 28th, 2011
11:40 pm
“I got tired of having to type out so many letters.”
Ya lazy ass cajun! Great to hear from you. As usual you were posting some common sense posts and then it up and hit me that I remembered that you changed your blog handle. Anyway, I’ve just been working a lot since last spring and just not blogging a whole lot. Besides I realized that about half the dawg fans just can’t be reasoned with anyhow. The first battle with LSU was quite a game. Physical, hard hitting. I was amazed the next day at how many ignorant asses all over the country talked about it being such a dud. BS! I think it sucks that you have to beat us twice. Lord knows had we won that first game I sure as hell wouldn’t want to play you again. So its unfair to LSU but its still the best 2 teams paired up. I’ll be back on to blog some more after Dec. 7th but in the meantime I’m just crazy busy. Anyway, great to hear from you and we’ll talk some more between now and the game of the century 2 and the bowl games in between. I’m predicting 17-13 whoever wins and a max score of 20-17 at the most- I think both teams will dent the end zone at least once. I see a bit more scoring but I just can’t fathom either offense scoring more than 20.
TonyD in Orlando
November 28th, 2011
11:51 pm
If Richt wasn’t so soft and such a hypocrite, the Dawgs would have more cred. LSU is going to beat them down and make Mark quit just like Urban Crier.
Joe Bob Thibodaux
November 28th, 2011
11:54 pm
That photograph of Lester Miles indicates one of two things, either he is presenting the secret hand shake or he is a Vulcan.
Paul in NH
November 28th, 2011
11:55 pm
Blackoutanyone?
You started by saying that a 4 team playoff would not result in any teams with 1 loss or less being left out and then when I pointed out that there are going to be at least 6 teams with 1 loss or less this season you switched to saying that a number of 1 loss teams don’t deserve to be in a playoff. In the same post you say that a plus 1 system would open up the title game to more teams. Ever heard about consistency?
cdpridg
November 29th, 2011
12:03 am
Want to give you Mark major kudos…best damn article you or anybody else has ever written!!
BroncoBilly
November 29th, 2011
12:03 am
Georgia beats LSU on Saturday….and Oklahoma beats Ok. State…and the NC game should be Georgia vs. Stanford….would be a great game….fun to watch. If the NC game is LSU/Bama….send me an e-mail about who won…already seen it and its boring as hell
Kelly
November 29th, 2011
12:06 am
Until we have a playoff ALL arguments are subjective and that’s why the system blows.
Dawgma
November 29th, 2011
12:12 am
Back to your point about every game counts. Let’s go even further and quote some of those ESPN gurus: “Every game is a playoff game in the regular season. If you want to play for the NC, it’s simple, win your games”. Ok, taking that in mind, didn’t Alabama lose its playoff game to LSU. This is where there case is lost. We need a playoff. If you stick with the BCS, then they need to make it a stipulation that you HAVE TO WIN YOUR CONFERENCE. If they don’t do that then at least go to a +1. 1 plays 4 and 2 plays 3. Winners play each other for NC. Still would rather see a playoff, either the top 8 or 16 teams. It can be done and still incorporate the bowls.
Joe Bob Thibodaux
November 29th, 2011
12:18 am
This is a question of the highest order. We better trust the SUPER COMMITTEE with this.
On the other hand, in the words of one who can divine truth from pizza toppings:
“I have all this stuff swirling around in my head”. Yeah, the way to go is 9, 9, 9.
Good night folks,
JBT
Rob
November 29th, 2011
12:23 am
I have heard all the arguments of the fact that alabama and LSU are best two teams in nation right now and should get to play and I agree in fact that through year they have been best BUT this proves the point because as mentioned in 2007 the bulldogs were the hottest team in nation and clearly if not most dominate then second by long shot and didn’t get opportunity any Alabama fans who make that argument are idiots because they lost this season to LSU and there should never be rematch UNLESS decided by playoff where the other team EARNS the right to play instead of backs into it because of losing!!!! I am not arguing the UGA should have a shot at bcs championship if it beats LSU BUT if it does it will leave the nation with no true champion(either one that lost conference champ or one that split games with other team) and maybe just maybe there will be a playoff
Kelly
November 29th, 2011
12:34 am
Dawgma: The experts at the network no longer to be named will say whatever is convenient for them to say at any given point. Playoff is really the only way to settle this mess. And I realize that fans from all the other schools have accused UGA fans of ‘woulda, shoulda, coulda’ but every fan here has done that at some point or other because the system necessitates it. Coaches aren’t immune either, as both Miles and Saban have both gone on record, saying that those who don’t win their conferences have no business in the NCG. As has May and Herbstriet. The BCS makes idiots of everyone and it’s designed to create controversy because controversy converts into ratings. Marketing 101. I put this link up the other day. It’s pretty good, perhaps a bit rough around the edges, but a great start: http://www.angelfire.com/ne2/bcs_exposed/playoff.html
Blackoutanyone?
November 29th, 2011
12:43 am
Paul in NH… “Ever heard about consistency?” Ever heard of hooked on phonics? Feel free to recheck my original post. Where did I say there wouldn’t be any teams with one loss or less being left out? I said “If you can’t finish in the top 4 then you PROBABLY have at least 2 losses and don’t deserve a shot.” While I think a full blown playoff would kill the regular season and water down many traditional rivalries, I would like to see the championship game opened to more teams. I stand by my statement if you can’t get in the top 4 at season’s end then you don’t deserve a shot. Look here milkdud I realize I’m attempting to talk college football with someone from NH but if your going to try me you best get yo facts right. Look at Houston, Boise State and Virginia Tech’s schedules. You think they deserve to play for a National Title? It’s one thing to complain about the current system but at least come back with a legit argument.
Tdawg
November 29th, 2011
12:43 am
So by using your lodgic turd rising, Georgia should have played for the National Title in 07. I mean Georgia lost to Tennessee, the co-champs of the SEC east and LSU lost to Kentucky,the doormat of the SEC east, which by the way Georgia beat. What am I talking about. Yall thought that just because LSU punked Alabama’s rear end out, that LSU should have played for the title. Georgia has one thing that Alabama will not have this season. Georgia will have that SEC East Conference throphy and may yet have the SEC title. Knawing at that gut ain’t it runner-up. Suck on that turd rising
Blackoutanyone?
November 29th, 2011
12:50 am
Dawgma… yes Bama lost to LSU by 3 in OT. That effectivley knocked them out of the BCS until (stay with me here) Oklahoma State lost to Iowa State, Oklahoma and Oregon both lost for second time and Stanford lost at home to USC. What is so hard to understand? Who do you want to play for the Championship? All you people are complaining but I don’t hear ya throwing a better match up out there.
Blackoutanyone?
November 29th, 2011
12:51 am
UGA = #4 in SEC West
Blackoutanyone?
November 29th, 2011
12:56 am
Tdawg… Tide Roll is not a Bama fan. Why you people keep letting that individual troll you is beyond me. I truely believe Tide Roll is actually someone from the AJC to work you guys up. Tide Roll never replies to anyone’s remarks and knows little or nothing about the Bama program. Not hard to figure out.
Tdawg
November 29th, 2011
1:25 am
Blackoutanyone? Are you really that retarted. You one dense person. Your logic is beyond idiocy. How in hedes can you say for a fact that a team with a 11 and 1 record is better than a team in another conference with the same record? No way can anyone with an ounce of sense know what would happen unless two teams were to meet. Using your stupid way of thinking, Michigan and Ohio State should have played for the title instead of Florida and Ohio State. I don’t give a crap what you think. You have no eartly idea as to what would happen if Alabama were to play Standford, Oklahoma St., VaTech, Oregon St., Oklahoma, or even Georgia. Alabama’s claim to fame is beating Auburn, a team that Georgia beat just as badly, an overated Arkansas team that had to have miracle comback against a not so great Texas A&M team and was punked out by LSU. Penn State just got slapped silly by a team that gave you all you could handle.Not to mention Oklahoma has beaten more top 25 teams is actually ranked higher than Alabama in the computer polls. Funny as heck ain’t it. The machine is the only one using any common sense. Ole yea. Almost forgot the most important thing. You lost the game of the century in your own back yard. Is that a choking sound that I hear. Why don’t you climb off that high horse and join the real world. Bama blew their shot. You know, they choked. Now on the other hand, if there was a playoff, sure Alabama should be included, as should 16 other deserving teams. Not the ridiculous 4 that you are talking about. I mean how can you pick the number 4 team, if the number 5 team has just as good of a record. Nope 4 won’t cut it. Also your thinking that a playoff would ruin the regular season is another blow to your small thinking. We get that from a lot of Alabama fans, so don’t feel left out. Ask the St. Louis Cardnials, the Green Bay Packers, the Dallas Mavericks, the AA and AAA schools what they think of the playoffs? Kind of dumb way of thinking, we also get a lot of that from Alabama fans. Anyway’s it’s kind of stupid thinking that every sport on this earth has a playoff system except NCAA Div. one football. Of course if Alabama were to get what it deserves, you would be crying for a playoff.
Tdawg
November 29th, 2011
1:37 am
Blackoutanyone? Have you ever heard of this. Win your own conference before claiming that you should play for the NT title. Hum, where have I heard that before? I want what is fair and that is the title should be played for by the best teams from their respective conferences. Guess what fool? Alabama ain’t one of them. Of course you just want Alabama in the title game even if they choked in the “game of the century”. I suppose they could call this one, the rematch of the century, because teams just as deserving as Alabama got shafted by ESPN, again. Just do us all a favor mr SEC West Runner-up. Go for a drive. A very long drive, because you are one dumb man. Then again, I suppose you could be a woman?
J Smith
November 29th, 2011
1:44 am
Dear bulldog nation:
It is amazing & unfortunate how uga people live in their own little world… all you uga people still think K. Moreno won the Heisman, don’t you? You still think it was good sportsmanship to charge the field on a 1st quarter TD against Florida, don’t you? You still think it was unfair when Spurrier ran up the score when he was at Florida, don’t your. uga fans continue to act like 6-year old brats, throwing a tantrum when you don’t win. Stop whining about 2007. Your going to keep talking about what should have been… Wake up! This is 2011. And after LSU trounced uga in the SEC game, you will resume your decline into irrelevance. Collegiate football does not revolve around uga. The SEC does not revolve around uga, & even the great state of Georgia does not revolve around uga.
But don’t worry! You can pretend that your bowl game is the national championship, & when it is all said & done, you will be national champions in your own little world; the national champions of “bulldog nation.”. Isn’t that your style? Just like your posters of K.Moreno that said “HE.IS.[the]MAN,” in a fancy way of writing “Heisman.”. There are two words to describe the uga football program: FANTASY FOOTBALL!
Tdawg
November 29th, 2011
1:45 am
Blackoutfool Standford did not lose to USC. Are you driving yet. Hopefully in a really fast car.
Dawgma
November 29th, 2011
1:50 am
Blackoutanyone…..I’m not saying Bama isn’t the 2nd best team in the country, even Saban said: “If you don’t win your conference, you have no business playing for the NC”. But that was a few years ago. We all know how he feels about that now. I love SEC football, but it happened to UGA, they didn’t win their conference and were snubbed because of it and now you could have the possibility of 2 teams in the NC game that didn’t win their conference, IF LSU loses to UGA.
SawThat1nce
November 29th, 2011
1:57 am
espn sux
SawThat1nce
November 29th, 2011
1:57 am
so does the bcs
BCS and NCAA have NO / ZERO credibility, if they allow Alabama to play for the NC. The PAC 10, ACC, BIG 12 and BIG 10 ought to break away from the NCAA and the BCS. Where is Kenn Starr? Somebody needs to Sue the NCAA.
November 29th, 2011
2:02 am
BCS and NCAA have NO / ZERO credibility, if they allow Alabama to play for the NC.
The PAC 10, ACC, BIG 12 and BIG 10 ought to break away from the NCAA and the BCS.
Top Reasons – Alabama playing for the National Championship Stinks…
1. Alabama ALREADY LOST to LSU – this year!
2. Bama is no better than any other one-loss team. They have ONE win vs a current top 10 team.
3. It is not even remotely fair for Alabama to get 2 chances and other teams get ZERO chances. The PAC 10, ACC, BIG 12 and BIG 10 ought to break away from the NCAA and the BCS.
4. Bama has beaten only one decent team all year. Most of their oppenents are now around .500. Bama can not schedule Kent St, North Alabama and Ga Southern and then claim to be the best. Next year (2012), they are playing Western Kentucky &Western Carolina. NCAA = Zero Credibility.
5. Many teams with MUCH better resumes have been kept out of the NC over the years because those teams failed to win their Conference Championship. Alabama didn’t even make it to the CC.
6. Bama offense (QB / WRs / K) just PLAIN sucks / stinks / sorry / predictable / horrible / etc ..
7. They are the most one-dimensional team ever (as in only 1 stellar player).
8. Nobody wants to see Alabama try to run the ball and punt all night again. They already lost.
9. If Bama loses again – the rest of the nation (except LSU) feels cheated.
10. If Bama wins, the rest of nation (including LSU) feels cheated. Either way, the fans feel cheated. This is is HORRIBLE for college football fans, the NCAA, the BCS and everybody.
Congress needs to disband the NCAA and the BCS, if this happens
11. I can’t think of another way to phase it:
They Already Lost. They Already Got Beat. They already had a chance.
They already failed to win. They already blew it.
saint simons
November 29th, 2011
2:04 am
Georgia = Deliverence.
It’s great to watch ESPN and the BCS elite grab a hold of Georgia’s ear year after year.
(((((((((( squeal ))))))))))) hahahahahahahahahaha
sckot
November 29th, 2011
2:21 am
If LSU and Alabama play for the championship and Alabama wins… both teams have 1 loss and beaten each other once. Who is the national champion then?
UGAKev
November 29th, 2011
2:27 am
LSU and Virginia Tech Blackout
UGAKev
November 29th, 2011
2:29 am
If Virginia Tech avenges their lose to clemson in a pretty impressive fashion I say they should get the shot to play LSU.
clay
November 29th, 2011
4:56 am
Best article ever written mb. Very nice piece
PurpleNGold
November 29th, 2011
5:35 am
No one in Baton Rouge is writing stories like this. Know why??? Because LSU isn’t going to lose. Only Georgie fans would be so arrogant as to think they have a chance… and here’s some real news, no one but Georgie fans are rootin’ for LSU to lose.
PurpleNGold
November 29th, 2011
5:42 am
Tdawg, let me put this in terms you may (but most likely won’t) understand. IT AIN’T 2007!
PurpleNGold
November 29th, 2011
5:43 am
I always knew that Georgie fans were a bunch of crybabies, but each year you outdo yourselves. Hilarious!
130on2
November 29th, 2011
5:57 am
Everyone complains about the BCS but it is far better than what we had before. We rarely had anyone’s version of number 1 and 2 play each other.
Geaux ahead, make my day
November 29th, 2011
6:40 am
Saints > Falcons
Dawgs >> Georgia
I’m seeing a pattern here.
GUFFAW at the mere suggestion that LSU and Bama are ranked so high bc they didn’t have to play UGA this year. GUFFAW at the entire, weak ass SEC East
Geaux ahead, make my day
November 29th, 2011
6:45 am
Falcons < Saints
Dawgs < Tigers
Georgia < Louisiana
Dr. Lou
November 29th, 2011
7:07 am
A single elimination tournament style playoff system would be a wonderful idea for the current FBS college football league. Of course, we would need to appoint a Football Czar to eliminate the existing conferences and weed out about half of the current members of the FBS in order to make it work. (Sorry ’bout that Boise State and Houston)
Once we have established these new “Super-Conferences”, then we’ll only allow Conference Champions to compete in the playoff series. That will make for more interesting OOC games, since these will no longer count toward playoff eligibility. A team could lose all of it’s OOC games and still go to the playoffs, even if the second-place team in their conference has a better overall record.
This would prove to be a much better system, since it would theoretically introduce a greater opportunity for a poorly performing team to get lucky and back into the playoff series. Unfortunately, it is possible that (even under this new, improved scheme) the same old elite teams would still dominate the National Championship. While the best team doesn’t always win – they usually do.
I guess the best part is that we could change all of the rules and the Boise State and Georgia fans would still whine like little girls when they got left out of the Big Dance.
dmr
November 29th, 2011
7:12 am
Georgia got screwed in 2007 in my eyes, NOT because of the BCS Title game. Although, looking at history through the 2011 prism makes it look so. Georgia had to go play in the Sugar Bowl against an undeserving Hawaii team. And what did ESPN say all week leading up to that game? Colt Brennan will pick Georgia apart. Georgia’s never seen a prolific passing game like they are going to see. Georgia can’t get enough pressure on Brennan. And what did we get? 8 sacks, 4 INT’s, and a blow out victory.
Everyone in the Country knew the two hottest teams in the Country at the time were UGA and USC (Trojans). The bowl tie-ins prevented what would have been a great game…Georgia v USC in the Rose Bowl.
Moreover, go back and look at who LSU lost to and who the Hokies lost to and when they lost those games.
The NFL works because it is decided on the field. Not always the “best” team advances in the playoffs, but the team who is playing the best at year’s end. I would agree that the regular season is a “playoff”, but it must be win and advance. Alabama is by far the second best team in the land. However, from a contrary point of view, they were given the chance to beat LSU. And since LSU was #1 and Bama was #2, all of the decided advantages were given to Bama to make the game even. Game was played on home field, in front of home crowd. Mistakes killed Bama, but so it goes in playoff games.
Dr. Lou
November 29th, 2011
7:19 am
Georgia is lucky to be in the East Division of the SEC. If the SECCG matched the two best teams in the Conference, then we wouldn’t have to watch these blowout games like the one we had last year or the one that’s coming up this weekend. Alabama and LSU could get their rematch over with and the winner could then take on the Third best team in the nation for the NC game.
Of course, the Georgia fans would still whine – it’s what they do.