re: Pretend LSU beats Alabama in 2 weeks..

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Kinda like thinking you're entitled to a rematch in a Championship Game against a team that beat you on your home field? That seems like it requires a lot of intellectual hoops, but when it comes to finding a way to get Bama into a playoff, it seems the majority of talking heads figure out how to fit through those hoops.

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No, because the goal of the game is to get the 2 best/most deserving teams in the game. If they played earlier in the year so be it. That's irrelevant.

So once you dispatch of the irrelevant argument you can get down to determining who the 2 best teams are. The 2011 Alabama/Oklahoma St argument is a legitimate one and I think there were points on both sides. I'm not too prideful to admit that, nor am I too prideful to say if I were LSU I'd throw my hands in the air.

But just like beating a SEC team in the regular season doesn't mean you cancel the SECCG in lieu of a rematch, the same thing applied here. I'm sure Auburn would have loved that in 2017 themselves, but it isn't how these things work.