Outcome of SEC Championship won’t impact LSU’s BCS opportunities
Welcome to championship week. Raise your hand if you expected Georgia to be in this position back on Sept. 11th. That was the day after the supposedly devastating 45-42 loss to South Carolina. To his credit, Bulldogs’ coach Mark Richt did, as his comments after that game indicate.
Since then the Bulldogs won 10 straight, culminating with Saturday’s 31-17 win over Georgia Tech to conclude the regular season. Now it gets real interesting!
Georgia’s season began with a rather lackluster loss to No. 5 Boise State in the Georgia Dome. Now the Bulldogs head back and will face an even bigger challenge in No. 1-ranked LSU in the SEC Championship Game. No one’s giving them a chance to win. The early lines I’ve seen have the Tigers favored by 11.5 to 13 points. So Las Vegas is expecting a rout.
What I think is most interesting about Saturday’s game is the apparent lack of bearing it will have on LSU’s BCS national championship hopes. Virtually every prediction out there has the Tigers still playing in the title game even if they lost to Georgia and even if that loss was a blowout.
There is even some speculation that LSU could clinch a share of the national title with a win over Georgia on Saturday via The AP vote.
That has brought forth some previously unfathomable reasoning. LSU coach Les Miles was asked this past weekend if he had considered resting some of his players and kind of taking it easy for the SEC championship game. Miles’ response was predictable.
“Just so you know, there is no way this football team goes to Atlanta and doesn’t play its best,” he said.
The truth is, the bigger the stage, the better LSU has played this season. The Tigers’ season began with a game against a top 5 Oregon team in the “Jerry Dome” in Dallas and they’ve had “monumental” contests all year, with trips to West Virginia, Alabama and Arkansas. They seem to do their best where the lights are brightest.
“We’re used to being on the big stage,” Miles said Sunday. “I think our guys translate the glare of the lights to making plays in the game. I think they did that against Oregon in Dalaas and they’ve really done it right on through Alabama at Alabama. So we’re kind of comfortable in domes and we’ll look forward to seeing if we can the exact same thing.”
Expect the Bulldogs to get LSU’s best shot.
So does anybody here have a problem with the SEC championship game being rendered moot with regard to the BCS title? And does anybody believe Georgia has a chance in this game?
Meanwhile, we here at the AJC are treating it as a meaningful game. We have a lot of great coverage plans so be sure to check back regularly for updates as we’ll post everything online as quickly as we have it. And feel free to offer suggestions for stories or particular subjects you’d like to see covered.
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MY Dawg
November 29th, 2011
12:00 am
Bama in Atlanta : Wow I hate to admit out of all the shot I have read, yours is my favorite. The media loves the image of Les and Nick. They say the right thing and change voters minds at the flick of the tongue. Mark is obviously a mild and meek leader. Bobby Bowden said it best, “i don’t know if he’ll be able to make the hard decisons”. Ga got left out in 2007, point blank. The system was flawed then and it’s still flawed now. I heard the talking heads on espn say, that the whole body of work should be considered. Really! I heard them talk about this team and that team having to overcome freshman woes, injury, suspensions, etc. What the hell has Ga overcome, all of the afore mentioned. Bama got their shot at home. I think the SEC is the dominant league by far, but a repeat should be out of the question, BCS or not. I did see NIck Saban lobbying for just that on an espn interview Saturday nite. Nuf Said, UGA beat LSU, then Mark get on the soap box! If you want to be the Best, you have to beat the Best. If you beat the best, you are the best. To He77 with the BCS.
Vince Doodly
November 29th, 2011
12:30 am
Yawn. LSU will put a smack down on the dawgs. This wont even be close.
L.A. BULLDAWG
November 29th, 2011
1:06 am
UGA HAS SIZE AND SPEED ALSO, TO MATCHUP WITH LSU! AARON MURRAY IS A BETTER QB, THAN AJ MCCARRON, JOSH WILSON, AND ANYTHING OREGON HAD TO OFFER! THE STATS, BEAR THAT OUT! UGA’S PLAYMAKERS ARE YOUNG, BUT, EXTREMELY TALENTED! BRING IT ON!
UGA
November 29th, 2011
1:10 am
“Expect the Bulldogs to get LSU’s best shot”
just can’t do that. Not when, in the back of their heads, LSU players (and coaches) know there’s something bigger at stake.
7576DAWG
November 29th, 2011
1:19 am
LSU and Alabama are the two best teams in America . If they played 6 times each would win 3 times. Because of this I think that since LSU out scored Alabama and thus won the game , even though Alabama was clearly the better team but didn’t win I think that LSU should play Oklahoma State if they beat Oklahoma and Alabama should play Stanford since the BCS ranks them 3rd and 4TH. Instead of us seeing a rematch I would rather the SEC ’s best play two other teams and show just how much better they are than the next two team’s on the BCS list. LSU would beat Oklahoma by 35 to 40 point’s and Alabama would beat Stanford by at least 21.
My reasoning for this is because the BCS is the only major college sports team that does not have a playoff system . Even AA football has a playoff as does Baseball and basketball . The BCS are Power control freak’s that are ruining 1- A football.
The two best examples are when Auburn wasn’t in the Championship game in 2004 because the MEDIA wanted to see the top two ranked Quarterback’s play each other, when 90% of America , except Oklahoma and Southern Cal fan’s, knew that Auburn was the best team. Then in 2007 Georgia was pasted over for LSU even though most people knew at the end of 2007 Georgia was the best team. The BCS will always be a prejudice , unfair system and until we get a 16 team playoff college football will continue to be a joke and after the conference championship games are played the bowl games are ONLY about the money. Who win’s really mean’s nothing.
J Smith
November 29th, 2011
1:21 am
None of it will matter because uga will be trounced in the SEC game. LSU will destroy uga…
Dawg In Macon
November 29th, 2011
1:25 am
I may be in the minority of Dawg fans that believe UGA should not have played in the National Championship Game in 2007, (although they should have been given the opportunity to play a quality USC team and not an inferior Hawaii squad but the “mighty Rose Bowl” took a # 16 Illinois team). Yes I know they made it up to #14 to qualify but that was ONLY due to “the mighty Rose Bowl” politics that petitioned the voters to move Illinois up so the “mighty Rose Bowl” could retain their Big 10 – Pac 10 tradition.. It is true that by years end they had one of the best teams but those two early losses kept them out of the SEC game. It was fair then and it should be fair now. BAMA had LSU at home and LOST. I don’t care how they lost or by how many. Bama did not win the West and I don’t care if Green Bay is in their division (and I am not 100% certain that LSU isn’t as good as the Packers) you should have to at least win your side of the table to be considered. Let’s assume that LSU takes care of business this Saturday and BAMA goes ahead and gets the invitation based on the fact that EVERYONE at ESPN is telling the voters how they are suppose to vote (because we all know that the ESPN crew knows more about college football than everyone else…………………..and hmmmmmm I also find it ammusing that ESPN has coverage of ALL the BCS games). So let’s assume that BAMA wins 7-6 in the title game. LSU should still win the National Championship because they would have have outscored BAMA 15-13 in both their head to head match-ups. Yes, both LSU and BAMA have great teams but the ESPN crew (up until recently) have ALWAYS said the regualar season matters and it is the body of work. LSU went into Tuscaloosa and won. It was ugly but never-the-less, they won and AT BAMA so LSU deserves to get to play another team from another conference and whip their butts.
Most SEC fans and all of ESPN want to see another LSU-BAMA match-up but if you live anywhere else in the country you could care less about a rematch. Assuming OSU beats OU this week, a LSU-OSU title match would be much more intersting (to me).
Better yet, lets just have an 8 or 16 team playoff and let it be decided on the field. If you had an 8 team playoff and it turned out to be LSU and BAMA, then that is A-OK by me. But as it stands now, the system stinks. Their are always flaws and corruption when it comes to polls. Coaches know more about football than anyone and their poll counts 1/3, yet coaches don’t see other teams play as much as sports writers do. Most sports writers are gifted at writing and “think” they know more about sports than anyone yet 99.9% of them couldn’t win as many games as Lee Corso did even if they had a team with 100 five star blue chippers. The computers are the most unbiased because they look at schedules and how your oponents did but schools have little control over their schedule (they can only control out of conference games). The West has evolved into the powerhouse of the SEC but it hasn’t always been that way. The UT and UF programs are down now but that is not Georgia’s fault. It just so happened that UGA didn’t have BAMA, LSU or Ar-Kansas on the schedule this year. That is the way the schedules fell this year.
I remember a time when you could lose early and get better by years end and be rewarded for that. It happened at least once with Free Shoes Univesity
I have said alot and none of it matters. Stop the garbage and GIVE US A TRUE PLAYOFF SYSTEM like every other sport has. Win it on the field. Win it on the court. Finally, I will say that IF we had a play-off system this year, I honestly think it would come down to LSU and BAMA but as they system stands right now, BAMA should not be in consideration. The system is only as good as ESPN tells us it is.
Next I will tell you why the Heisman Trophy award has become a farce.
7576DAWG
November 29th, 2011
1:34 am
The bowl alliances have made the Bowl games a joke when a 4TH ranked team with 2 losses play a 24Th ranked team that has 5 or 6 losses. Guess who will win by 6 touchdown’s. That’s one reason the Orange Bowl is the biggest joke of all and just about nobody watches the game. When I was young that Bowl was one of the most popular to watch because it matched two of the best teams in the nation. I use to watch all the bowl games played, now I watch the Sugar and the Championship game if one of the teams are from the SEC. I also will watch Georgia if the Bowl opponent is not an embarrassment pick. If neither teams are from the SEC I usually don’t watch any of the Championship game because I know an SEC team got screwed some how by not being one of the school chosen to play for the championship. Thing’s need to change to make the final poll legitimate.
UGAKev
November 29th, 2011
2:11 am
Well I guess I am fixing to start claiming national championships like Bama has always done. So If Georgia wins the rest of their games this season they are the National Champions in my mind just like all those nationals championships Bama claims back in 1592. I am just sick and tired of the BCS. Just remember the Pac-10 is somewhat to blame for us not having a playoff system yet because they are scared to death they will never get a team to the title game again if that happens. Plus they are afraid the Rose bowl tradition will be broken.
Go Dawgs
1942 National Champions
1980 National Champions
2002 National Champions
2007 National Champions
Hopefully 2011 National Champions
Had enough
November 29th, 2011
4:47 am
Roll Dawgs
RGP
November 29th, 2011
6:14 am
If LSU loses to GA in SEC championship they shouldn’t play for national championship. The LSU-ALA game was BORING anyway with 9-6 score. All defense and very little offense. Makes for a snooze of a game.
GT
November 29th, 2011
7:08 am
I think the country is mad the second best team is sitting at home and maybe the third so Georgia can play. The only meaningful win Georgia has had after all those games is Tech and that was mediocre. I think Georgia needs to win this game before it starts appraising this year’s team. It may not mean any thing to this country in fact they are mad Georgia is in the way of good football right now, but if they win it is significant and the first significant win they have had this year. Then and only then can you start talking about how good the coaching staff has gotten. To me the jury is still out.
Coarch
November 29th, 2011
7:10 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.
gomdawg
November 29th, 2011
7:16 am
WOW GEORGIA WINS SEC AND THE # 2 AND # 3 TEAMS OF THE SEC PLAYING FOR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
GT
November 29th, 2011
7:19 am
South Carolina is probably the screwed party here.
Coarch
November 29th, 2011
7:23 am
Georgia may not win the SEC, but they should certainly get a trophy for whiniest fan-base.
Joe
November 29th, 2011
7:24 am
The polls in college football are just a popularity contest and ESPN has way too much influence. It’s really a joke when you think about..a big scam.
gomdawg
November 29th, 2011
7:25 am
SOUTH CAROLINA WAS SCREWED WHEN THEY LOST STUPID GT
TampaDawg, Les Miles will NOT have losing record to Mark Richt 4 days from now. Hit while iron is hot.
November 29th, 2011
7:25 am
TampaDawg November 28th, 2011 1:55 pm
“Trivia: Who is the only SEC team that Les Miles does not have a winning record against?”
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*Les Miles has a losing record from 2005 through today to *UGA and to Penn State. *Les Miles will NOT have losing record vs Mark Richt 4 days from now.
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Now for the WHOLE PICTURE, NOT JUST PART OF THE PICTURE :
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.87 Win % vs ACC Mark Richt 2005 through today
100 Win % vs ACC Les Miles 2005 through today
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.00 Win % vs Big East Mark Richt 2005 through today
100 Win % vs Big East Les Miles 2005 through today
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.60 Win % vs Big XII Mark Richt 2005 through today
100 Win % vs Big XII Les Miles 2005 through today
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.50 Win % vs C-USA Mark Richt 2005 through today
100 Win % vs C-USA Les Miles 2005 through today
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.64 Win % vs SEC Mark Richt 2005 through today
.72 Win % vs SEC Les Miles 2005 through today
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LSU BCS NC # 1 every poll 2007, beat 2 top 10 teams
UGA # 2 in 2007, beat 0 teams finishing top 10
LSU 2005 gave Miles losing record to Richt 1-2 ended # 6
UGA 2005 beat Miles but ended up # 3 team SEC at # 10
42-16 LSU 2005 through today SEC (43-16)*
37-20 UGA 2005 through today SEC (37-21)*
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74-17 LSU 2005 through today all games (75-17)*
64-25 UGA 2005 through today all games (64-26)*
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.81 Win % 2005 through today Les Miles
.71 Win % 2005 through today Mark Richt
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NOW WHO THE HELL IS THE BETTER COACH
TampaDawg ?
Coarch
November 29th, 2011
7:34 am
Georgia should just be thankful that a team from the Eastern Division gets to play in the SECCG, no matter how bad they are. If the SEC matched the two best teams for the Conference Championship, then the East would not have a team playing in the game – this year or last year. Georgia is the fourth best team in the SEC West. That’s not too shabby… For Georgia.
Top Dawg
November 29th, 2011
7:34 am
Not to take anything away from LSU, but LSU played Arkansas in Baton Rouge this year. Contrary to the article, they did not take a trip to Arkansas.
Top Dawg
November 29th, 2011
7:37 am
The BCS is a joke, which I have been knowing for years. Now, maybe EVERYONE recognizes that the BCS is a joke.
Coarch
November 29th, 2011
7:38 am
Alabama shouldn’t play in the BCSCG, because they already lost to LSU.
Likewise, Georgia shouldn’t play in the SECCG, because they already lost to South Carolina.
GT
November 29th, 2011
7:44 am
Stupid? The whole country sees a milktoast schedule. If Georgia and South Carolina had played the same schedules this would not be in a discussion but USC had to play Ark. who is in most minds a top 10 team and certainly capable of beating Georgia. No team on Georgia’s schedule was rated as less than a touchdown underdog. Beat LSU and then we have a discussion, this game is far more important to Georgia than to LSU. It is the third team that is real you have played the other two you loss to. The local press have been homers the whole year giving the weak schedule a pass, the rest of the country has not. Win and you are right, lose and you really are about what people say you are and why you are excited about that is beyond me.
DISNEYdawgs.com
November 29th, 2011
7:52 am
They are excited TODAY because today is 4 days from when they have NOTHING to say about anything AGAIN.
Dontavius Supremo
November 29th, 2011
7:52 am
So, which is more irrelevant, the SEC Championship or the BCS Championship??
Coarch
November 29th, 2011
8:00 am
@Dontavius Supremo
The SEC Championship is less relevant, because the rules force the SEC to allow an undeserving team to compete simply because of the division in which they play. That works most of the time, but in the past two years, the SECCG has meant very little. Neither Georgia, nor South Carolina have been the second best team in the SEC for the past two years, and everyone outside of Georgia and South Carolina understands that simple fact.
Les Miles has been SO MUCH BETTER than Mark Richt 2005 to today looking at both résumés
November 29th, 2011
8:02 am
.64 Win % Mark Richt vs SEC 2005 through today
.72 Win % Les Miles vs SEC 2005 through today
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.71 Win % Mark Richt vs all teams 2005 through today
.81 Win % Les Miles vs all teams 2005 through today
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Les Miles has won as many games vs teams finishing this season in the AP Poll Top 10 as Mark Richt has won all 11 years here. Mark Richt is NOT winning this game. He has no TB, no FB, no punt return coverage, no kick-off coverage, his offense fumbles the ball and throws interceptions, his offense settles for field goals in the Red Zone and misses those he settles for, and his Quarterback gets sacked for us – These are ALL the very Strengths of LSU and why LSU has not just played a tougher schedule but beat 4 teams in the top 25 today while Mark Richt has LOST EVERY GAME vs teams in the top 25 today. This is a NON-CONTEST. Brag it up DISNEYdawgs.com while the iron is hot. 4 days from now, you will rue every post you posted here. I promise.
bulldog steve
November 29th, 2011
8:03 am
Anybody that thinks Les MIles will rest players is crazy. The BCS game is 6 weeks away. They are coming guns a blazing and the Dawgs better have their A game to have a chance. But they DO have a chance if they play like they did against Auburn. Even if LSU loses, they deserve to be in the BSC game. I don’t feel the same way about Alabama though. A LSU loss, lessens the “quality loss” for Alabama and I think OK State deserves a shot if they take care of OK. But only if LSU loses.
Coarch
November 29th, 2011
8:05 am
“But they DO have a chance if they play like they did against Auburn.”
Auburn ain’t LSU. Les probably won’t start subbing players until the second half.
GT
November 29th, 2011
8:14 am
Look at LSU. How can you play a more meaningful schedule. They have done the exact opposite of Georgia and that is one of the reasons the country is perplexed with a system that allows the fourth best team and I am not sure it wouldn’t be the the fifth best to play for the best conference championship in the country against a really remarkable team that has proven beyond a dealt how good they are. Oregon was in the national finals last year and unlike Auburn has some resemblances of a team the year before. We are being cheated out of what could be a significant game by a system that has allowed this. And Georgia is faking the results like a questionable catch hoping to fool the refs with huge help from the local press who are trying to help out the local promoters of the SEC Championship game. We will have two SEC teams in the NC game, which is maybe what caused this injustice in the first place. Maybe that was the results the clever people in the SEC wanted, and more power to them for having three great teams in one conference. If Alabama had to play LSU in Atlanta one would be totally eliminated from the championship game that really counts. Let em play Georgia, local flavor, sparing partner that probably can’t win, will draw interest and money,at a local level then the SEC rakes in the money with two team in the NC. Nobody can be that smart but it sure works well for the SEC, and the rest of the country is duped or maybe Alabama is not penalized for playing in a top heavy conference, and maybe teams like Georgia get a strong tailwind for being associated with these great teams.
Les Miles has been SO MUCH BETTER than Mark Richt 2005 to today looking at both résumés
November 29th, 2011
8:14 am
An experienced head college football coach, does NOT let off an opponent. There is zero reason to even contemplate such. It is just our great coach who plays down to his opponents. There will be no freight train LSU will wonder who hit it. There could not possibly be a worse match-up for UGA than this one game this one year, this one week.
The ODDS today are 13 and 14 points now showing up in Las Vegas.
Brag away Richt-0-Philes for you shall not have only your opinion heard of Mark Richt is the # 4 best coach in all of America when he isn’t even the # 4 best coach in his own conference this GREAT YEAR.
Les Miles has been SO MUCH BETTER than Mark Richt 2005 to today looking at both résumés
November 29th, 2011
8:19 am
Mark Richt is ranked # 5 in the polls of just SEC teams, and this is supposed to be a GREAT YEAR for Mark Richt ?
eyeswideopen
November 29th, 2011
8:26 am
Hey all of the woofing is over, the dream team time is now, step up show what you got,quit all the whining about where your ranked and where ala is ranked and why ala is in the bcs championship game without winning a cnf,and all that crap, as usual dawg whining ,…dream team dawgs are being called…”show what you got” and then talk
Dream Team
November 29th, 2011
8:38 am
Exactly.
bartender
November 29th, 2011
8:39 am
lsu is the good step brother taking his ugly step sister(ga) to her prom and guess what…all she wants to do is WHINE…lol,or woof
Prom
November 29th, 2011
8:41 am
That’s not true.
The vast majority of real Bulldog fans know exactly where we are today and where we will be 4 days from now.
LSUTigerinATL
November 29th, 2011
8:49 am
Can UGA win? Of course, anything is possible in football. Will they won? No chance. LSU is stronger, faster and deeper at every position than Georgia and just about every other team in the nation besides Bama. LSU will win by at least 30. GEAUX TIGERS!
Prom
November 29th, 2011
8:51 am
about that
Mike T.
November 29th, 2011
8:52 am
Georgia was the hottest team in the country at the end of
2007 season.Was told we could not play for NC BECAUSE WE DID NOT WIN OUR DIVISION OR CONFERENCE.BCS, ESPN, NICK SABAN AND LES MILES ALL SAID IT.NOW IT’S DIFFERENT THEIR
ALL HYPOCRITES.GEUX DAWGS!
flatsdawg1
November 29th, 2011
8:56 am
Now that we’re done wrecking Tech,.us dawg fans love this time of year when we get an extra game to watch and have a shot at going to Sugarland! Don’t get me wrong, the dawgs definitely have a shot, but this LSU team is something special. They are the only team i’ve seen who doesn’t bring up safeties to stop the run. They are a special defense. The dawgs are back on defense but this will be all on our offensive line. I believe we can slow their offense way down, but the O-line will tell the story,if we can run it, Murray will throw it around enough for us to have a good chance. LSU is not unbeatable, but Mr. Richt needs to get them believing!! Maybe Herschel could come in and give em a pre- game speech. Gooooooo Dawgs! Sic em!! Woof Woof!!!
The bulldawg idiot predicted we would go 12-2 in 2010
November 29th, 2011
8:58 am
Nuff said
Mike T.
November 29th, 2011
8:58 am
lsu is the good step brother taking his ugly step sister(ga) to her prom
Wearing that ugly ass Purple and mustard yellow.
Step boy may get his eyes clawed out. Goooo Dawgs.
dboy jones
November 29th, 2011
8:59 am
Let the trash talking begin!! Did anyone see Jarvis Jones comments about our (UGA’s) defense compared to LSU’s? Well Sheppard #10 from LSU responded to Jarvis comments…It’s own now!! GO DAWGS
SLim
November 29th, 2011
9:00 am
After reading most of the posts associated with this article, I feel that LSU fans don’t want a rematch with Alabama, because they know there’s a good chance they would lose. LSU has played great to this point and the last team they want to play is Alabama in the NC game (remember Alabama and LSU were tied 6 all at the end of regulation). The real reason LSU fans don’t want a rematch…they know the only team that can beat them is Alabama. LSU fans are scared of a rematch period.
Prom
November 29th, 2011
9:01 am
Mike T.,
LSU was # 1 in 2007 and UGA # 2 because LSU beat two (2) teams who finished up in the AP Poll Top 10, and because Mark Richt beat zero (0) teams who finished up in the AP Poll Top 10. Mark Richt also lost to two teams who sucked, one for example who was 6-6 and did not even play in a bowl game. LSU was so much better than UGA in 2007 that the only claim to fame Mark Richt has for 2007 was that he was OUT OF THE CONFERENCE RACE early in the season and then won games while the top teams lost.
SLim is right
November 29th, 2011
9:07 am
LSU will absolutely lose to Alabama in re-match. Alabama missed 4 field goals, any one of which beats LSU. That will NEVER happen again. Alabama was the better team that day. Alabama will be the better team this time, too. You are absolutely correct that that is why every LSU fan who has posted to all these UGA blogs about The SEC Championship Game 4 days from now has every one of them said that they do not want Alabama in a re-match, that Alabama doesn’t deserve it in their biased opinion.
Nick Saban, of course, is the REAL REASON
SLim
They know Nick Saban is BETTER than Les Miles.
xan
November 29th, 2011
9:10 am
It’s bull Sh*t is UGA wins they should be considered, And beating the No.1 team is a statement all games count. This is the Title game.
Misty From Macon
November 29th, 2011
9:23 am
Georgia doesn’t deserve any respect NOR a chance to even THINK about playing for a national title. They got HUMILIATED by an over rated BOISE STATE and now they think they’re all that because they beat some loosers in football?!? Ten Straight ain’t diddly unless your 10 straight wins were over quality opponents.
Let’s look at their quality of work this season:
They beat Coastal Carolina (A Football powerhouse)
They beat Tennesee (down decade), Vanderbilt, (barely), Florida (down year), Kentucky (basketball school) and Auburn (minus Cam).
They couldn’t be South Carolina AND they got EMBARASSED by Boise State!! Yet they deserve to go to a BCS Title Game?!!
Gorilla Biscuit
November 29th, 2011
9:30 am
Misty, get back to your sewing.