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BRtoATL
LSU featured on college football live on ESPN

Doesn't matter if he truly deserves the comparison. The story line is what's important, and everyone knows that Saban is THE head coach in college football, so not sure at all why you would try to diminish the supposed esteem in the eyes of the media, ESPN. That is a clear consensus.

I would not care at all, as long as it had no effect, but in college football there is this thing called voting which affects this thing called polls which affects who gets to play in the Championship game. Media opinions especially driven agenda, does matter.

Yeah, there IS A 'thing called voting.' In fact, a group of coaches and human poll voters voted Oklahoma State FIFTH AND SIXTH after they destroyed Oklahoma to win the Big 12 title.

All the other voters voted Okie State no lower than third, except Saban who voted them FOURTH.
Hmmmmmmm.

If this group of BCS human poll voters (not sure what credentials they had) and coaches had voted Oklahoma State 3rd or 4th, Alabama would """""""""""NOT"""""""""""""" have been in the Superdome Jan. 9.

It had NOTHING to do with where they voted Alabama, rather it was this certain skewed faction of weirdly biased people who voted the 12-1 Big 12 Champion FIFTH OR SIXTH.......behind HOUSTON !!!!!!!!!!!!

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Bogota

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Posted on 5/24/12 at 8:38 pm to MetryTyger

Exactly, and that was well known, that OK State could usurp Bama with enough voters giving OK State a proper final ranking. So the push back for OK State was enacted to protect Bama's position--which appears to be an act of collusion by a sub-collection of voters, as you alluded to. And it was close and tight even then, and the BCS computers which don't reveal their algorithms did not respond as well as it seemed they should for OK State--otherwise they still might have gotten in.

But ESPN certainly drove an agenda, and politicked like real politicians do and they weren't simply bystandards, and that's a shame. Obviously enough voters were convinced that they needed to do whatever they had to do to preserve Bama's position.

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