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[NCAA-F] BCS Championship

This is the game, the match-up that will propel us into the first steps of a playoff: +1. (I'm not watching it... no interest in seeing what I expected to happen actually happen. Two evenly matched teams playing twice? one wins the first, the other wins the second--that's the way it usually goes. But, he who wins last, wins "most".)
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"Sorry for not responding to your post, but either I haven't seen it yet, or what you said was so devoid of substance that I found it utterly uninteresting."

You aren't missing much. It's 15-0, Alabama, and LSU has not been past the 50-yard line all night. A 15 point lead in this game is a 5 possession advantage...a route, if you will.

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In the immortal words of Sean Connery, "Suck on it BCS, suck it long and suck it hard."

Bullshit Championship Series has lived upto it's name. Div 1 college football is a disgrace.

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Y'know, I'm of the age when the National Championship was decided on New Years Day. Waiting more than a week past New Years just takes all the wind out of the sails. Everyone has gone back to work. Holidays are over. New Years NEEDS to be the day. Have a triple header. One game after the other, capped with a prime time National Championship game.

Here's my rant...I didn't even know the Cotton Bowl still existed. Or the Sugar Bowl or the Citrus Bowl and even the Orange Bowl. Why? Well, for one, the proliferation of corporate bowl games has diluted the field. The other reason is they messed with the date. New Years Day is bowl day.
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I'm a man, but I can change. If I have to. I guess.

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Completely agree Shaner, hence why Div 1 CFB went from a mostly joke to a complete joke. The first part of the joke are all the bowls which have gone from 15ish when we were growing up to anyone can fuckin get in 35 bowl games. Then of course you have this Bullshit Championship Series where "every regular season game matters" (yet this year the last couple didn't for LSU and Alabama) which was supposed to prevent split national championships and we are looking at the very real possibility of that happening.

And you are right, now it's the GoDaddy.com Bukkake Clean Up With Swiffer Presented by Hertz with backing by Dodge powered by GE Cotton Bowl.

What does an elephant have to do with an algae bloom?

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Miles even made the case postgame that LSU should be in consideration for the AP title based on its season-long body of work, including the previous triumph over Alabama.

“That’s for the voters to figure,” Miles said.

When the coach of a team that was shut out in the championship game is arguing that he should win the championship anyway, the system is an unqualified disaster.

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The winner of the BCS title game (there is no NCAA "championship game" for FBS, therefore no "champion") is the winner of the BCS title. The voting is used only to determine who gets into the game. The "system" (and I use the term loosely) is what it has always been: a means for making more money (which is its one success). The AP, however, is not part of the BCS.
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"Sorry for not responding to your post, but either I haven't seen it yet, or what you said was so devoid of substance that I found it utterly uninteresting."

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Being a Tigers fan, I must say that was the most painful 3 quarters of football I've ever had to endure watching (yes, I turned it off after 3 quarters).

I will hand it to Bama, they put it to the Tigers. They most certainly came to play "Big Boy" football.

Congrats to Alabama. You were obviously the better coached team this time.
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Not only does Jesus save, but he makes nightly off-site backups.

I will go out on a limb and say the SEC will win their 7th straight title next year, with LSU leading the way. They're losing basically no one.

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The only real question was whether they'd place LSU at #2 or lower. #1 was never in question (unless you're a Mad Hatter).

(No, I haven't looked--not interested.)
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"Sorry for not responding to your post, but either I haven't seen it yet, or what you said was so devoid of substance that I found it utterly uninteresting."

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Lowest rated BCS title game in history:
»content.usatoday.com/communities···rating/1

ESPN's BCS title game Monday drew a 13.8 overnight rating -- the lowest rating in the BCS system's 14-year history.

That 13.8 translates to 13.8% of households in the 56 urban markets measured for overnights. The previous record low was a 14.3 for Miami-Nebraska at the 2002 Rose Bowl. Last night's game was down 14% from last year's Auburn-Oregon title game on ESPN and down 24% from Alabama-Texas on Fox in 2010.

CAPTIONBy CHERYL GERBER, AP Iimages for Allstate
The new low isn't surprising. Alabama's 21-0 win was less-than-suspenseful, both schools are from relatively sparsely-populated states and from the same conference -- and there wasn't much controversy surrounding the game. And the schools had already played earlier this season in an overtime game where neither team scored a touchdown. CBS coverage of that game drew an 11.9 overnight

Coming into the title game, ESPN's BCS ratings were already down 10%.

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