re: Two SEC West Teams in Playoff - Fox Sports

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Okie State should have played, not Bama. If you reverse the outcome in 2011 I don't see LSU getting a rematch.

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Exactly. If LSU loses on the road to Bama that season, hell even if the game had been in Baton Rouge, then won out, LSU would not have been given the mulligan like Bama. Saban got a huge soapbox to stand on to promote his team by being on the set of the SEC Championship broadcast while his and Okie St.'s teams sat idle. Gundy didn't get that platform to speak.

Also, if the word Oklahoma was only followed by "University" rather than "State University," Bama probable doesn't get the rematch. (Saying that if everything else was equal but it was OU rather than OSU, OU would have gotten in ahead of that Bama team that lost to LSU.) And let's not forget that the OSU-ISU game was on a multiple overtime game, on a short week, in a week where multiple people from the OSU athletic department died in a plane crash. You'd figure they would have been some consideration over a Bama team that lost at home to a division rival which prevented them from playing for a conference championship game.