Could LSU lose to Alabama in the National Championship and still be #1?

[FirstTimer]

It's possible. Miami won the National Championship in 1991, but Washington finished first in the coaches poll, after winning the Rose Bowl. Essentially, Miami and UW were co-champions.

Though, the NCAA doesn't recognize Washington as the football champion in 1991.

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[Golden Taters]

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Would it be possible for LSU to be ranked first in the coaches poll even if they were to lose to Alabama?

 

[FirstTimer]

I'll take the team that wins on the road over the team that wins on a neutral field every time.

But if Alabama wins the NCG in New Orleans...then....

 

[RainboUnicorn]

I guess another thing to ask you guys is if it plays out this way and Bama beats LSU by a FG or less than a TD then who would you give your #1 vote to? IMO LSU would still have a better body of work than probably any other school.

 

[FirstTimer]

I guess another thing to ask you guys is if it plays out this way and Bama beats LSU by a FG or less than a TD then who would you give your #1 vote to? IMO LSU would still have a better body of work than probably any other school.

Whoever the Cartel tells me to vote for.

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Honestly, if the game plays out the way the first meeting did...but Bama wins..I'd vote for........Houston when they win their bowl game and are undefeated.

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Srs. I'd vote LSU.

Same mount of losses. Better resume.

 

[FirstTimer]

They're playing the Sugar Bowl in Baton Rouge this year?

Someone better tell the Marriott in New Orleans about this...

Whatever. The whole state smells the same since Katrina anyways.

 

[FirstTimer]

And can't the AP vote to go a different way with their poll? Isn't that what they did with USC back in the early part of the 2000s?

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God damn it Glen. We've already covered all of this.

 

[FirstTimer]

Notre Dame to the ACC= :fap:

 

[ram29jackson]

ESPN owns a ton of markets/channels and keeps saying that this game has to happen, they are shamelessly promoting it left and right...but i say, let it happen..something like this should push the idea of a playoff because who would stand for the BCS/NCAA saying 2 teams deserve a national championship from the same conference without proving themselves against other conferences? this is pathetic and another version of a fix...on another note, the all powerful NCAA said UCLA could sign a bowl waiver and be eligible for a bowl with a losing record LOL...thats like some dumb house rule while playing Monopoly against some cheater..just pathetic...that aside, I dont want bowls completely gone, having college football almost all December helps make the holidays for a football fan

 

[DSpydr84]

I'm not even touching this thread... :shifty:

 

[NAHSTE]

I think it would just for the fact that the BCS was created so there woul dbe no more split titles. That there woul dbe more definition in who the champion is. A split title would blow the biggest part of that mission statement up. A split title based on a poll the BCS used to use..and the other major poll in the land would reflect really poorly on how well the BCS was doing in determining who the best team in the land is.

This. After the debacles that were 03 and 04, they decided to add this 5th game, which wasn't really the solution people were asking for. When people were asking for a "plus 1" in those days, we wanted a semi-final and a final between the top 4 teams. This would be perfect 99% of the time IMO. Instead, their idea of a "plus 1" was literally to just add an extra game of the same significance. Adding the extra BCS game actually backfired, IMO, because it has watered down the other bowls significantly.

Another major problem with the system we have now is that when the schools agreed to add a 12th game (purely for money of course, but hey let's all say that a playoff would create too many games for student athlete's to endure) they decreased the likelihood that two teams would be able to go undefeated, creating the types of clusterfucks we have now or in '07.

In short, this system has never not sucked balls.

 

[Woy]

Notre Dame isn't better FT.

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Don't use my smiley in a post with the words Notre Dame in it.

 

[cynismus]

I dunno why this is even a debate. If Alabama wins, the BCS computers will self-destruct.

 

[RainboUnicorn]

After what happened today now I hope Alabama wins by a a field goal. It will cause all kinds of controversy.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

ESPN owns a ton of markets/channels and keeps saying that this game has to happen, they are shamelessly promoting it left and right...but i say, let it happen..something like this should push the idea of a playoff because who would stand for the BCS/NCAA saying 2 teams deserve a national championship from the same conference without proving themselves against other conferences? this is pathetic and another version of a fix...on another note, the all powerful NCAA said UCLA could sign a bowl waiver and be eligible for a bowl with a losing record LOL...thats like some dumb house rule while playing Monopoly against some cheater..just pathetic...that aside, I dont want bowls completely gone, having college football almost all December helps make the holidays for a football fan

word up, homeboy

 

[NAHSTE]

LSU has probably already won the AP poll, let's face it. First team to finish #1 in every computer and human poll in the BCS era. Arguably the best regular season of all time. Beat the teams ranked #2, 5, 6, and 15 in the final poll.

Give us the trophy now, faggots.

 

[KnightNoles]

http://cfn.scout.com/2/1135504.html

One side note – if you’re wondering why nearly every voice at ESPN is united in proposing the single argument that there IS no argument on who should be playing LSU… If you’re wondering how a network that usually encourages us to debate every possible nuance of CFB has now for two weeks been unified in selling us a single message, I remind you of this little ditty:

The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network recently paid $2.25 billion, that’s with a B, for broadcasting rights to the SEC for 15 years…AND ESPN now owns the broadcasting rights for our sports’ BCS Championship game as well.

Yes, ESPN has its fingers in nearly every conference, but nothing to the scale it has invested with the SEC. That’s a lot of motivation to support the LSU/Bama brands…in a neck-and-neck situation, especially. Somebody bang a gavel and keep it in the family.

 

[IamMedellin]

lil off topic but...

LSU shop Hacked to sell Bama gear
http://www.lsushop.net/

 

oh n dat dRK skin in the middle could get it

they :troll:in LOL

 

[s@ppisgod]

http://cfn.scout.com/2/1135504.html

Yeah, that sounds about right. You could tell leading up to this that they were full of shit, and it came out in spades today. Analysts explaining why "the match-up the people want to see" isn't the best match-up is just funny. ESPN is a joke. They choose an opinion they want people to have and they push it like there's no tomorrow. This is why I don't get into politics. I have to worry every time I turn on the TV about who approved that message. I shouldn't have to worry about who ESPN is in bed with before I watch an hour of what they now pass off as "sports" coverage, or sport-related storyline/controversy coverage. Which pisses me off, because ESPN would usually be all over a united masses against the BCS, because buying into universal outrage sells. But instead, it's just another SEC overlords report featuring college football....
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[FirstTimer]

LSU has probably already won the AP poll, let's face it. First team to finish #1 in every computer and human poll in the BCS era. Arguably the best regular season of all time. Beat the teams ranked #2, 5, 6, and 15 in the final poll.

Give us the trophy now, faggots.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football_team

Notre Dame beat the #1(Miami), #2(USC), #3(West Virginia) ranked team in the nation. #9 Michigan from week 1? Finished #4

Final polling(AP/Coaches)
Miami 2/2
Michigan 4/4
West Virginia 5/5
USC 9/7

Unanimous champions.

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