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No, I hate both of those teams and that game was garbage.
If they played again for the championship I probably wouldn't even watch it.

I say yes, seriously who honestly believes Okie State or Stanford could beat lsu in the superdome?

Honestly, I don't see any team close to Bama or LSU. I say let them duke it out again.

Only drawback? Is it fair to lsu should they lose to bama?

It would be ludicrous to have a rematch for the MNC - one team would not have been good enough to win their own division, let alone their conference championship - but allowed to play for the MNC? No thank you.

I would not be excited about a rematch. I would probably watch the first half of the game.

IF Oklahoma State can go undefeated I would like to see them play against LSU for the NC.

LSU has played a very tough schedule and appear to be headed to an undefeated season so I think they definitely deserve to be #1.

How nice would it be to know that if you make the NC game you enjoy a significant home field advantage? LSU could possibly be playing for their 3rd national title for the third time in New Orleans.

So if that were to happen and Bama were to beat LSU this time, does that make them the National Champion?

Look, if we had a playoff system in place, more than likely these 2 would end up playing each other again. However, we don't and so Bama lost and is out. Plain and simple. If Stanford or Okie State or even Boise go undefeated and don't get the chance, then the system is worse than advertised.

It was a good defensive game but it wasn't the game all the over blown hype suggested. I don't want to see that again.

Bama lost on thier home field, and will likely not win thier division, let alone conference. Why would it be fair to LSU to go 1-1 vs Bama and have Bama declared NC's?

If we had a playoff that would be different, but you can't tell an undefeated Stanford or Okie St that they dont get a chance because the country THINKS bama is better.....that's ridiculous. We all saw how silly that was in 06.

Lack of common opponants in CFB seems to make people say Stupid things, because ranking teams involves HUGE AMOUNTS OF ASSUMING.

Bama had LSU at home, couldn't pull out the victory. Cry me a friggin river as far as wanting a 2nd chance goes. This is CFB and currently there is no playoff system, you lost, deal with it.

FTR I was staunchly against UM getting a 2nd chance in 06 as well, so I've been consistant with this.

Also FTR, where I thought LSU was the better team going into the game, coming out of the game, I feel 100% certain that I was wrong and Bama was clearly the better team, they completely neutralized the LSU Dline, which was very, very impressive.

But guess what? The better team doesn't always win.

They will go down as yet another great CFB team to not win a NC. There are Hundreads of those.

I thought the argument from all those SEC homers in 2006 against an OSU / UM rematch was:

1.) UM didn't even win their conference. Can't be a MNC without winning your conference.
2.) Every game is a playoff (since there is none). UM was "eliminated" from the playoff because of the loss.

Why don't these arguments apply now??? Is it because it is the almighty SEC where everything is greater. I live in SEC country and watch most of their games. Is it the best conference, yes. Probably very top heavy (3 teams) and the rest is ho hum. Just because they claim to be the best doesn't give them a right to play for the MNC.

IMHO, the bottom line is this: if you don't win your conference, you can't play for MNC (until a playoff comes), especially if you played the team that knocked you out of the championship race.

No thanks. I do not want to see a 6-3 BCS title game, marked with great defense, mediocre QB play, mediocre special teams and overhyped media coverage.
I will take Ok State or Stanford against LSU.
Luck put up a ton of points against a young and talented USC defense, and is the best cerebral hi IQ QB out there, he could do more against LSU than Alabama ever came close to.
In the end, outside of good hitting and defense, this game was a snooze fest. If this was the Big Ten, ESPN would have spun it as boring and conservative football.

No. Do I think that they are 1 and 2? Probably. But LSU would have to play the SEC Championship game and Bama gets to sit a home and then play LSU for all the marbles in NC game. Let's say Bama wins a close one and gets the big prize. So that would me LSU's win at Bama meant nothing. Without a playoff system it makes no since. So who's better since they split there games? LSU for winning on the road or Bama for winning the last one? Just doesn't seem right.