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re: Travis Gregory Stano says SEC should get 3 playoff teams
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:31 am to DawgsLife
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:31 am to DawgsLife
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Honestly, now....what team do YOU think was better than LSU or Alabama?
LSU was the best team that year and they proved it by beating Alabama on the road in the most hyped up regular season game we have ever seen.
When two evenly matched teams play, the team who lost always has the emotional advantage the second time around. Plus, the second game was at a neutral site (Alabama had at least 40% of the crowd there) with over a month to prepare. And, LSU had to play an extra game and beat Georgia.
It doesn't matter if they were the two best teams. They already played and LSU won. The only way to replicate the first game would have been to play the third game in Tiger Stadium with only two weeks for each team to prepare in the midst of the season. The game should have been between LSU and Oklahoma State.
Who remembers what happened in the first game? Who considers LSU to have been the best team in the SEC that year? Because of the artificial second game, it rendered all that was accomplished in the regular season meaningless.
Now, multiply that out and that will happen again and again over the years. Regular season games won't matter as much because you know that you always have a chance to sneak back in. The national picture will supersede the conference title, and that is exactly how ESPN, a national network, wants it. They want college football to be like the NFL. That way they can make more money and we, the fans, get a cheapened experience.
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Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:36 am to AlaTiger
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LSU was the best team that year and they proved it by beating Alabama on the road in the most hyped up regular season game we have ever seen.
You could make that argument, and it would be a good one. OR, you could say Alabama dominated in the bigger game that was hyped more on a bigger stage on a neutral site. The first game was so even it was near impossible to tell who the better team was. And, again, I can't think of another team that year that was better than LSU OR Alabama.
I'm a little shocked to see anyone say they do not want to see the two best teams play for the National Championship. I believe there has been precedence that two teams that have met in the regular season then met in a national championshp game. Not positive, but I think I saw tha somewhere.
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:37 am to AlaTiger
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LSU was the best team that year and they proved it
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When two evenly matched teams play, the team who lost always has the emotional advantage the second time around. Plus, the second game was at a neutral site
See the 1999 SECCG for an example. Alabama went into the swamp and beat Florida 40-39 in over time. As an underdog in Atlanta they beat Florida's teeth in. Take off the purple and gold glasses
Posted on 9/10/14 at 10:39 am to AlaTiger
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Because of the artificial second game, it rendered all that was accomplished in the regular season meaningless.
No, it didn't. Both teams had to have the records they had in the regular season in order to make the National Championship. If they had stumbled several times during the egular season they would not have gone. The regular season was still vey important. Did the second game hurt LSU? SURE, it did. No denying that. I wish georgia had had that chance, though!
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