re: Bowl Game if LSU doesn't make the ship

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Then what BCS bowl do you imagine we would go to, since the east winner would go to the sugar? Orange, Fiesta, or Rose? Can we get lsumatt to answer this because I am really curious about this.

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A lot of the talk here has been that LSU would end up in the title game.

Here's the order:

Fill up #1 and #2 -- let's just say Oregon and TCU, just for kicks, in the BCSNCG. For argument's sake, 11-1 LSU is sitting there at #3 and 12-1 Auburn is sitting there at #4.

Then we fill in the auto bids from the conferences:

Rose -- Wisconsin (Big Ten champ) vs. ???
Sugar -- Florida (SEC champ) vs. ???
Fiesta -- Nebraska (Big 12 champ) vs. ???
Orange -- Va Tech (ACC champ) vs. ???

Then, based on the rule that states that after the conference champs, teams #1 and #2, and any auto-qualifying non-BCS conf team are slotted (and Notre Dame, but that's not relevant this year), #3 is given an auto bid. #4, since it is in the same conference as #3, does not get an auto-bid. Thus the importance of LSU getting to #3 if Auburn loses the SECCG; getting to #3 would be a lot easier if Auburn is 11-1 before the SECCG. Pitt, at 7-5 or some shitty record like that, is the last auto-qualifier.

The Rose, since it lost one of its champs, and because it does not have to take a team that is a non-auto-qualifier (I believe that the rules state that only one non-AQ team in the BCS top 12 or 16 gets an auto-bid; other teams can qualify but are not automatically given a slot), will pick first from the eligible at-large teams and the auto-qualifiers. They are followed by the Sugar, then the Orange, then the Fiesta.

I would guess, just off hand, that Pitt, LSU, Stanford and Ohio State are in the bowls. Pitt will be the last pick, so congrats Fiesta -- Nebraska vs. Pitt.

Rose will take a top 6 Stanford team to face Wisconsin.

Sugar will have an SEC team in it, so it'll likely take Ohio State to face UF.

I think that leaves LSU in the Orange Bowl against Va. Tech.