re: Why Bama gets a pass, but not Florida?

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We can't help it that LSU being in the game caused ratings to plummet.

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LSU was in the three highest rated college football games last season, not you (at Bama, vs. Ark, SECCG).

And, FTR, the BCSCG rated lower than Miami-Nebraska (please note the similarity.

Oklahoma State was NOT the only team screwed by Bama being put in the Natty.

LSU was the other one. The message sent to college football teams and their fans was this:

It doesn't matter if you go undefeated playing away from home against Oregon, West Virginia, Alabama, and Georgia. (Two of whom won their conference; the third at least played for their conference title) We're going to make you play one of those teams again, rewarding them for losing and punishing you for taking on the toughest schedule in modern college football history.

It doesn't matter if you win an extra game on your schedule and have more wins than any one else in the nation.

It doesn't matter what the criteria for determining the BCSCG matchup was in the past when two teams with same record vie for the other spot even though we know fans don't like it when a non-conference champion is put in the game (hence the bad ratings).

Beating a team on the road with two weeks to prepare isn't as impressive as beating a team at a neutral site with 6 weeks to prepare.

Losing on the road to a lesser team on a short week is worse than losing at home after a bye week.

The system is going to reward teams that lose the most important game on their schedule if we like that team better than another one because, well, they've won more historically.

And, yes, Ranters, we LSU fans are pissed about this and will be for awhile. Since some of our fans create and maintain this board, suck it up. We'll bitch about it whenever we want to.