re: 2011 Alternative Scenario

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You lost me there with "the way a champion should". Must I bring up 2003 and 2007 LSU? While you didn't get a rematch in either title game, you most certainly did not control your destiny from start to finis Obviously. But the difference is that Alabama did NOTHING after their loss to earn their way back in to the game. LSU certainly did in 03 and 07, and so did OSU. LSU also had the most impressive wins in the country in 07 as well. OSU beat the best team on their schedule in the final game by five touchdowns to win their conference while Alabama sat at home. Was the Arkansas win in SEPTEMBER truly so overwhelming as to overshadow a win like OSUs over an Oklahoma team just as good as Arkansas?? And I admitted Alabama was better than LSU, but that's in hindsight after 1/9. I certainly wouldn't have accepted that in December. But the media had already annointed Bama as the better team despite the scoreboard. Alabama got the same benefit of the doubt that OU did in 03 after losing their last game. A benefit that the media was so outraged by they broke off from the BCS and split the title. LSU was coincidentally, and infuriatingly, the victim in both of those cases. It leads many of us to feel like a media whipping boy from time to time, and I challenge any fanbase to say they wouldn't feel the same

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