Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Rematch is on ....Bama vs. LSU, part deux

should be a heck of a game....look for more points this time.

Hope so on both !!!!RTR

What's the cheer?

Oh ya ROLL TIDE!

Hope so. Les Miles is doing a heck of a job at LSU. LSU is definitely the best team in the country without a doubt. I think Alabama is the second best team.

WE NEED A PLAYOFF SYSTEM!!!

Les is on ESPN right now, saying all the right things, in Les-speak. He's still honored to get Bama again.

Well, I hope Bama's kicker has his $hyte wired tight this time.

better hope they don't need long NFL kicks to be in the game.

I agree. We had two deserving teams vying for #2 and unfortunately, someone got the shaft.

OSU was deserving as well. They're going to rain on someones parade in a bowl game.

Bama/LSU should be a great game though.

ALL SEC CHAMPIONSHIP. It doesn't get any better than that for a conference.

JM

Blaming those kickers for missing 45 and 50 yarders is a mask for poor decision making on the side lines.

Bet you won't see that again.

Saban really surprised me on that. But I'm sure he woke up the next morning smacking himself in the forehead too.

I hate rematch bowl games.

Alabama should have to beat LSU twice in order to claim the national championship.

I guess that's it for me too - Alabama wins. You have 2 teams with one loss and both to each other. You can't really claim at all that one's better than the other - for sure.

This is as it should be.

OSU got beat by freaking Iowa State. I mean...c'mon.

Wonder what impact, if any, this will have on viewership for the NC.

OK, time for some thoughts from the old dinosaur who, as everyone knows by now has not one whit of interest in having a NATIONAL CHAMPION or a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, but just loves to see college football games, especially ones that provide intriguing match-ups.

My first thought, and I know that this has been said many times, many ways, but I don't think that I've seen my take on it. LSU and Alabama have already played. LSU won. College football is unique in that the number of games played makes (or at least should make) each regular season game one of great importance. You can't go on a losing streak (I don't believe even a one-game losing streak) and consider yourself in the same category as undefeated teams. Division I-A (still the unrepentant dinosaur) college football doesn't have (shouldn't have) an unimportant preseason or a system whereby you can wander through the season and make a run at the end (shouldn't have that either). It is not a double-elimination tournament.

My second thought grows out of the first. If we must have a NATIONAL CHAMPION, it doesn't follow that we have to have a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. It looks to me like the NATIONAL CHAMPION has already been determined. LSU beat all comers during the regular season. No one else did that. What purpose would it serve to have them play a one-loss team, especially Alabama. Should the other team win, they both have one loss. Whoopee.

My third idea (or ridiculous notion, depending on your feelings) again grows out of the previous one. Since we have a clear #1, rather than having them replay #2, why not have #2 play #3 to reach a definitive conclusion about who should be which? To me, that would provide a much more interesting game than would one between #1 and, already-beaten-by-#1, #2.

It should be #1 LSU -vs- #4 Stanford in one bowl game and #2 Alabama -vs- #3 Oklahoma State in another bowl game. Winners play for the National Championship Bowl Game. Just my $.02, YMMV.

NYH1!

I was hoping it would be OSU vs. LSU just to shut the GD Ok. homers up. LSU would have stomped the living crap out of them, and they would have been ranked lower than 2 after the bowl games. Bama is WITHOUT DOUBT better than OSU, and they know it along with everyone else who has watched the two teams play this season.

What I wanted to see was:

LSU vs. OSU (reasons as stated above)
Bama vs. Stanford, simply because Stanford does not belong in the top 10
Ark. vs. Stanford or Oregon


Grats to LSU and Bama. SEC domination continues.

Not a bad idea. But LSU would rather take the field to prove they're the best, then watch who's going to be second best. At least I believe they would.

NYH1!

Won't take much for me to decide that "whatever" is better than watching.

well, there is a lot to be said for just calling LSU the champ and letting everybody else brawl for second, third and fourth.

but obviously the difference between LSU and Bama is not a great deal, although I believe LSU will beat them in New Orleans by more than they did at Tuscaloosa.

would have preferred OKS and Bama getting Stanford or whoever...would make a more definitive statement.