The 2011 college football season concludes tonight at the Superdome in New
Orleans when No. 1 LSU faces No. 2 Alabama in the BCS National Championship
Game. And history will be made on a few fronts. This game is a pick’em on
Bovada’s NCAA football betting odds.
This is the first time in BCS history that a
regular-season rematch occurs for the national championship. Pre-BCS, it
happened back at the end of the 1996 season when Florida State beat Florida at
the end of the regular season but that was clobbered by the Gators in the
Superdome for the national title. This will also be the first loss, obviously,
for an SEC team in the national title game. That conference has won the past
five national championships (obviously will add a sixth) and is 7-0 all-time in
the BCS Championship Game.
Back on No. 5, LSU and Alabama met in the
“Game of the Century,” an ugly 9-6 overtime win by LSU in Tuscaloosa. Alabama
won the statistical battle in that one but missed four field goals, including
one in overtime. It was the second-fewest points scored in a game matching the
nation’s top two teams. LSU was one of just two FBS schools to rush for more
than 100 yards on Alabama's top-ranked rushing defense this season after
churning out 148 yards.
It should be noted that back then LSU started
Jarrett Lee at quarterback; he has been supplanted by
dual-threat Jordan Jefferson. Lee was 3-for-7 with two picks
before being pulled for Jefferson in the first meeting. Throw out that first
meeting, and both teams won every game by double digits. These are the nation’s
top two defenses, and the total is at a record low 40.
There is some
talk that should Alabama win an ugly game that some AP voters might vote LSU as
their champion – Alabama is automatically the No. 1 team in the ESPN/USA Today
Poll with a win. Some have even said that BCS No. 3 Oklahoma State might get
some AP votes as No. 1 if the Tide win this game.
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