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Originally Posted by Sowa
It's going to be a real shame if Bama plays LSU in the national championship. How can fans that claim that the SEC is the best conference continue to say so if the best SEC team dodges the best non-SEC team in the title game. Ok St. could be better than LSU and Bama, but we would never know. If Ok State loses on Saturday then it's a moot point, but if they win they deserve to be in.
In 2006, a lot of Big Ten folks and others wanted a rematch of Ohio State - Michigan in the title game as they had a monster of a game to end the season. However, smarter heads prevailed and Florida got the shot and destroyed the Buckeyes and USC beat Michigan. SEC fans should feel the same way about this year. You can't claim conference dominance if you don't play the best teams from other conferences. Especially this year as the SEC really wasn't that amazing.
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The big difference there is that Florida's loss was to a pretty damn good Auburn team and OSU's loss is to a pretty average Iowa State team. I'd rather see a new game than a rematch, but at the same time I don't see a team that really earned themselves a spot over Alabama, at best it's pretty much even between Bama and OSU.
I do think that winning you conference should be a prerequisite for participation in the NC game though, so I'd bar Bama based on that.