NCAA Football Odds: LSU and Alabama In BCS Championship Game
Monday, December 05, 2011
by Bodog Sportsbook
Expect plenty of howls about the flawed BCS system out of the state of Oklahoma for the next month as the Big 12 champion Oklahoma State Cowboys were unable to overtake Alabama Crimson Tide in the BCS standings, meaning the No. 2 Crimson Tide will play top-ranked and unbeaten LSU Tigers for the national championship on Jan. 9 at the New Orleans Superdome. Thus it’s obviously a certainty that the national champ will come from the SEC for a record sixth straight season.
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The Tide were off this weekend and barely held off Oklahoma State, which impressively crushed Oklahoma 44-10 on Saturday night. That moved OSU up from No. 5 to No. 3 in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll but the Pokes couldn’t make up enough ground in the Harris Poll and the computer rankings. Certainly an argument can be made that a team that wasn’t even first in its own division, much less didn’t win a conference title, shouldn’t play in the national title game. But that happened back in 2003 with Oklahoma (lost in Big 12 title game) and 2001 with Nebraska (which didn’t even play in the conference title game).
And an argument also could be made that the national championship game shouldn’t be a rematch of a regular-season game, but that happened back in the 1996 season (pre-BCS) when Florida lost to Florida State in the regular-season finale but routed the Seminoles in the Sugar Bowl for the national championship. There has never been a championship rematch in the previous 13-year history of the BCS, nor has there ever been a championship game with both teams from the same conference.
LSU beat Alabama 9-6 in overtime in Tuscaloosa back on Nov. 5. Alabama outgained LSU but missed four field goals, including Cade Foster's 52-yard attempt in overtime, and threw an interception at the LSU 1-yard-line in the loss. It was the second-lowest scoring game between a No. 1 and No. 2 team ever – LSU and Alabama won all of their other games this year by double digits. LSU QB Jarrett Lee threw two picks against the Tide, but he’s now behind Jordan Jefferson and hasn’t seen the field in the past two games.
Oklahoma State’s only loss this year was 37-31 in double OT to Iowa State, missing a potential game-winning field goal at the end of regulation by inches. The Pokes now head to the Fiesta Bowl as the Big 12 champ.
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