re: Bama's easy schedule/hype the reason for their #1 ranking?

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Also that they backdoored their way in to the Natty last year after not deserving it, and beat LSU in the midst of a locker room revolt.

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I think Bama deserved to be in the game as much as anyone else. 2011 was a year in which LSU shouldn't have had to play a championship game. Their regular season was that good imo. But the BCS is not set up that way. In the '60s LSU would have been declared champion before the bowl.