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LSU would drop to #2 if they lost to arky or Georgia. They still go to the National Championship Game But Bama couldn't anymore.
Why do you think they wouldn't?? who would go if they Lost one of the Games?

Well hell, get the SEC to let us take UGA's spot and we will take it.

I'm sympathetic to an aspect of your post, but all things considered I don't think following your reasoning to its full conclusion solves any real problems.

Let's assume LSU wins out (thus immediately eliminating Arkansas from discussion). IF Oklahoma St. loses then a one-loss team will play for the national title. So the issue is how to decide who is the most deserving one-loss team. If, according to your reasoning, Alabama does not deserve to qualify because they lost at home to the #1 team in OT by 3, then that same logic would also seem to disquality Oregon for losing by 13 albeit on a neutral field. Moreover, if those two teams are disqualified, then the case is even worse for Oklahoma, who laid an egg at HOME to a mediocre Texas Tech (2-5 conf., 5-5 overall). How how can anyone disqualify Alabama and Oregon based on high-and-mighty principles and then give Oklahoma a free pass to the NCG after such a monstrosity. Whom do you want LSU to play, Clemson?(!)

I'm sorry, but if all the contenders are one-loss teams then, as you admit, Alabama (assuming they win out) is by all accounts the most worthy one-loss team. While I grant that LSU would get a rawl deal by the circumstances, your solution is to shift the raw deal from LSU to Alabama. But that creates two problems: not only does it (1) do nothing to solve the fact that someone is going to get a raw deal (merely shifting the burden from LSU to Alabama), but it also (2) gives LSU the further privilege of playing against the not-second-best team in the nation for the title. So LSU gets a double-deal based on this policy.

I can see why you think if anyone is going to get screwed by circumstances then it needs to be Alabama rather than LSU (victor's spoils as it were), but my problem is that it not only shifts who gets screwed, but also confers even more advantage on LSU by letting them play not-the-next-best-team for the national title, which is what I thought the point of the BCS was. Your argument boils down to: We deserve to play the third best team in the nation because playing the second best team in the nation would be a travesty.

Let's recap. "Um we already played the second best team and won.(You're saying Alabama is the second best team) So apparantly(misspelled might I add) bama isn't the second best team, they were beat at home(contradicting your first sentence). Deal with it (no problems with sentence 3).

One issue is that some of you want to conceive of the regular season as some sort of de facto playoff system. But this just doesn't make good sense IF there aren't two undefeated contenders at the end of the season.

Alabama and Oregon would be disqualified, fine. But this would perversely not penalize Oklahoma for losing at home to a team that could very well finish the season 5-7. So Bama and Oregon are disqualified for one loss to LSU, while Oklahama suffers no harm for losing at home to Texas Tech, who very well might finish 5-7? This "soluton" is at least as unfair as the "travesty" of LSU potentially having to play Bama twice.

If there aren't two undefeated contenders at the end of the season, the best one-loss team deserves to play. You simply cannot treat the regular season as some sort of de facto playoff *if* there are not two undefeated teams standing at the end of it; if you're going to think of the regular season as a de facto playoff, then in cases where there is only one undefeated team at the end of the regular season that team should just be awarded the title outright, which will happen only in your fantasies. The best one-loss team at the end of this may be Bama, in which case you must defeat them to be national champs. Deal with it.

I think that a lot of us get it including you, the whole season is a playoff system. My team may not make it and if they don't I understand why.

I didn't read the whole thread, but if you can't win your conference, then you can't win the MNC in my opinion.

I'm an avid Bama fan and don't care how we get into the NCG as long as we get there. That said, I completely agree w/ the poster. It isn't entirely fair for LSU. However, I don't think LSU will lose and either team will still have multiple weeks to rest prior to the NCG. So the resting thing isn't a big point to be made.