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2011 BCS Championship Open Thread.

This one's for all the marbles.  Or the one big marble.  Whatever.

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This one's for all the marbles. Or the one big marble. Whatever.

Alabama Crimson Tide @ LSU Tigers for all the marbles. You know the deal, you know what's at stake.

Enjoy the game.

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I was going to make a thread. Looked and Viola!

Thanks Glenn. I was running late!

I was also.

We were watching OSU-OU in basketball. :-)

I want to change the channel but this WV-UCONN game is pretty good.
Already looking like another defensive stand off.

I think each team is playing a bit conservative, afraid of a turnover that could turn the tide of the game. :)

Turn the tide? haha Pun intended?
Maze ankle or hamstring?
Looked like a hammy....too bad , he got hurt in the last game too
Probably too early for a cramp.
LSU is playing way too cautiously.
I'm pulling for Bama. Who've you all got?
I am really torn but probably LSU

I think they have had the type of season that deserves to have a championship

What is the spread?
Bama -2.5
And I thought I had picked the underdogs. :-)
LSU opened as the favorite
LSU, I have several friends from down there.
Bama, only because I work with a very nice older gentleman that is all about Bama and the Rammer Jammer song.

Otherwise, I wouldn’t be picking sides.

Bama

My Dad taught there when I was a kid.

I dont care who wins

just wanna see a good game

Basically the same here, but I feel the need to pick one to cheer for.
it amazes me

why fball players dont break more bones, I’d have casts everywhere on me lol

Me too, even when I was their age. ;-)
Yeah, those guys are tough...it is a violent game
Hard to see many sustainable drives in this game.

Special teams and turnovers will be the key in my opinion.

I can barely do aseaofblue

much less anything on facebook lol

"Do you guys know how to post videos to FacebooK"
Bama is using their TEs well

That will get them a few first downs, but not sure it is is going to net much on the scoreboard.

Very nice Bama!
For all of the Honey Badger's virtues

He’s only 5’9

Yep, I keep thinking he will be a special teams specialist in the NFL

Bob Sanders was a similar build I believe and he was always hurt

Sanders was a kamikaze nut.

Claiborne is the better cover corner.

This is a great SEC football game.

Every yard given grudgingly, every play a war.

I love it.

Yep, I think I have seen a few teeth flyin'

:)

3D TV, really??? I can barely keep up with my remotes and they want me to keep up with glasses too? Me thinks NOT!!!
LSU getting cute with the hurry up offense wounder if they will stay with it???
Where is Richardson?
And why are the TV guys not mentioning it?
Exactly, so I asked you all.
That tricky Saban....may be just short
Paid off!
Wow!...that was razor thin
Half an inch!
game of inches ;;;; like it should be
In a game of yards, inches make the difference.
Speaking of inches...

LSU has one of the most amazing stats I think I’ve ever heard. They have only given up 22 inches per punt return for the entire season. Don’t think I have ever heard of such a thing.

All that sneakiness for nothing!
LSU's mouthguards look like pacifiers. '-)
I think we are being hoodwinked.

The teams are off partying somewhere and we are being shown a replay of the first meeting.

Heh.

It does look a little like that.

missed opportunities ... bama close to having two touchdowns and a blocked field goal - lot like last time
This might be even less scoring than the first game.....
LSU would be up a creek

Without Wing right now

If they had Tebow on the team

they could, get ready for it, be getting by on a wing and a prayer.

Ahh, just poured a 2nd half libation
I just poured sum nyquil, does that count lol
you end up the same either way :)
lol
robitussin w/codeine-super sick, probably won't make it through this game but making a valiant effort.
my hats off to ya

hope you feel better soon

Wow, you know to party ;)
I'm impressed I can still type ;)
you're doin just fine lol
They are keying Trent big time.....

Bama will need to use play action off him more

I think an air bag just deployed!!
Hanks

is going to be one sore kid tomorrow morning

Alabama is rollin' now
LSU needs to answer
That was a big stand for the LSU defense.

A touchdown there would have hurt

I should have named my son Barkevious

Guaranteed stud FB player name

haha

I think Colt is one too.

I don't undertand ...

… why Lacey is going in close to the goal in place of Trent Richardson.

Richardson is an incredible back.

But LSU’s defense is really stout.

LSU is just laying back

waiting for the 2nd half.

Is that what we are calling it? Laying back?
you could come up with some other adjectives as well ... score is all that really counts
Mistake there by LSU .... that was a good play
My brother in law is a HUGE Bama fan (in all senses)

But he is in Las Vegas for the Miss America pageant. His wife is a dance coach for Miss Alabama.

He knows whats best.

Alabama's defense is #1 in the nation in 3rd defense....

LSU cant be in 3rd and long against that defense. Herbie was right

Score Bama!!!!!
9-0...might be all she wrote ;)
Three field goals in this game ...

… is like three touchdowns.

Yss, could have been much worse for LSU ...
LSU is holding back.

They will bring in their secret weapon, Lee, to get the offense going in the 2nd half.

Saban and Kirby Smart have this defense in a zone

LSU just has no answers right now.

FG Championship Of The World

Typical field position game.

chip kellys sure is squeaky lol
OK .... $64 question ... Bama wins close game = split NC???
The AP voters picked Alabama 2nd in the final polls

I think they would give them the #1 spot

That's the way the cookie crumbles I guess... hate it for LSU they have played a real murder's row of a schedule
If this isn't a winner take all,

then what’s the point?

I've never really understood how that all works.
Really its not a close game to this point ... Bama playing very well
2nd Half and LSU shows it has a friend at the Colorado School of Mines too?

.. and we see the “jet sweep” or whatever they are calling it today!

http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2012/1/5/2684591/dana-holgorsen-colorado-school-of-mines-orange-bowl-2012

YAWN

Six quarters of football 8 field goals made. What four missed/blocked?
Chip Kelly must be going crazy, thinking “Darn Kicker”.

Oh well, Thierry Henry returned to Arsenal today and scored the winning goal. Beautiful goal. For a few seconds, the years rolled back and the young Henry returned. Lackluster game other than that with Arsenal in complete control throughout and that game was more interesting than the first half of this game.

Maze's reaction is sad.
They are pickin on the Honey Badger
Honey Badger don't give a $#*%.
I was really hoping for a TD but I guess a FG will do.
LSU has started slow before

One TD and this is a game again.

Does Miles consider going with Jaret Lee soon?
Lots of chatter for that
Bama didn't prepare for Lee. Who knows what might happen?
I predicted it above.
LSU still didn't make it across mid ield
Must be because Bama is knocking the f out of them.
lol .... I noticed that too
Mathieu is being neutralized

in part because Alabama has only punted once. We’ll see what happens here.

NM out! See you guys Wednesday. Now I must sleeeeep.
Arkansas pounding Miss St 75-58
This is total domination by the Alabama defense...Total!
Jefferson has to be done now.
Maybe they could use him at LB, though
That's a blown knee
that was really nasty looking
It looked like a knee to me as well.
This is the equivalent ...

… of death by Chinese water torture for the Tigers.

This is one of the best defensive performances for a defense in championship history
Looks like the LSU defense has spent way too much time on the field ...
yeppers ... they haven't been able to defend the "3" very well .... Bama is 5 of 7 from 3
Wow.

LSU still hasn’t crossed the 50.

The 50 yard line is to LSU

like the goal line is to Bama

NEVER been a shutout in a BCS game. Wow what defense we are seeing.
Wow, Brent is right..."a mauling"
There will be a high tide in New Orleans tonight.
Eight quarters of football

and finally a TD.

TOUCHDOWN

Going to watch a few more minutes of Tora Tora Tora on the Military Channel and then off to bed. (I switched back just in time to see the TD. Man that would have been a bummer. OSU and OU is looking good too.)

What a boring game. Just like expected.

Elephants, Tigers, Honeybadgers, .... its been been a "zoo" ... night y'all
Only an extreme homer

would vote for LSU now.

agree...... dominating performance by alabama ..... off to work now - crap :(
That, my friends, was a good old fashioned whoopin'
Loss Cost "Hatter" $5.7M

Not only was Les Miles out-schemed and out-coached the Bama beat down cost him $5.7M in contract bonuses over the next 6 years.

This loss covers 6 years? Must be some contract!
That has to hurt.
From what I have read

in the national press. This game alone will do more for a playoff system than anything to date. There will never be a championship game among two team from the same conference and there will be a playoff system next year. What a dull and uneventful game. TV ratings really sucked.

A playoff system should not preclude

a championship game between teams from the same conference, it should just make it a little harder and more justifiable should it happen.

I'm completely annoyed the only touchdown scored was after I fell asleep!
snooze you lose .... :)
exception for drug induced coma .....
Dang it!

Didn’t know you had a thread on for THE game. By the way, that was a fantastic game. Bama’s D was all world, thought I was looking at more of the NFL playoffs. ;-)

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