Everyone lately has been talking about the upcoming LSU v Alabama football game on Saturday. And in an effort to not talk about that game, some have begun talking about the possibility of a rematch between LSU and Alabama in the BCS national championship game in New Orleans. Now should it be a close game between those two teams and of course every other teams ends up with at least one loss, then yes it is certainly a possibility for a rematch. But since we are playing what if's here, what if LSU beats Bama and the rematch is instead between LSU and Oregon. That is a scenario that has yet to be brought up from what I can tell. And that is a more likely rematch than the other one in my opinion. Now I don't believe at all that there will be any rematch what so ever, but under the unique circumstances of "what if" then I think the possibility certainly exists. And I think if Oregon beats Stanford and goes on to win the Pac-12 and Oklahoma St. and all the other unbeatens end up with one loss, then Oregon will get plenty mention as a repeat opponent for LSU instead of Alabama. Every SEC fan will certainly want to see the LSU/Alabama rematch but most people outside of the region probably will not. They will want their chance to dispel "the myth" of SEC dominance.
Unfortunately margin of victory can not be officially used to in calculating BCS standings. But should LSU beat Alabama this weekend, there will be a common opponent among Oregon and Bama. Will the voters use the final scores in determining who is a better team? They probably will, all while not allowing the computers to use the same criteria. Probably not fair, but hey that's life. What if LSU beats Bama by 13 just like they did against Oregon? Will the voters just move onto the next one loss team in line and skip the rematch talk? Most likely they will. It's the easiest decision to make/justify. The ironic part to this is that the voters could save face this year by voting LSU/Bama as #1/2 in the final polls and not having a repeat of 2006 (you know, the year when they were certain that Ohio State and Michigan were good teams only to watch both of them get crushed by Florida and USC respectively in the bowl games), but they probably won't. Had the voters gone the rematch route in 2006, then the string of 5 consecutive SEC champions would not have started and we could still be thinking that B1G football is the cream of the crop.
Speaking of which, Penn St only has one loss at the moment. Should Alabama win this weekend, what about a rematch between Bama and Penn St.? Yeah, that doesn't sound nearly as exciting. Maybe that's enough "what if" talk for now. We should probably stick to the philosophy of "one game at a time." At least for now. Until then GEAUX TIGERS!!!
