Did the LSU-Alabama Rematch Really Kill the BCS?

I think it sped up the process. Kill it? Ehh

It was dying anyways. People were tired of pollsters + computers decided who they thought were the two best teams were out of 130 at the end of every season. It makes no sense.

4 team playoff is the start of something great for CFB.

Pretty much pointed to as the reason we went to the playoff by a lot of sports talking heads.

Another interesting part of the article. What could have been for Miles and this program :-(

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The game impacted the future of Les Miles just as much, as the former LSU coach himself admits. He thinks the Tigers would have beaten Oklahoma State in the title, and that he might still be the coach if they had. LSU had escaped Tuscaloosa with a 9–6 overtime victory during the regular season, but Alabama’s title-game romp began its current seven-game winning streak in the rivalry, the first five of those coming with Miles on the LSU sideline. Miles was fired in September 2016, one month into his 12th season. “Oklahoma State could have played in that game and changed the course of history in my mind,” he says. “I enjoyed Mike Gundy and am happy the success they’re having [at Oklahoma State], but I’m betting they don’t stop us and I’m betting our pass rush is unstoppable. I think we’re going to win that game. I just do.”

A second national title for Miles in four years would have boosted LSU’s recruiting haul, the coach says, to further “stay in a competitive heap with the guy [Saban] doing the best job in college right now.” That’s why Miles hates to admits the fact that the BCS did get it right in 2011. “Alabama was easily the second-best team in the country,” he says.

His biggest regret in a coaching career that spans nearly four decades remains his team’s preparation leading up to the rematch. He wishes he had better motivated his players to play a team that they’d already beat. “The head coach, me, did a poor job,” he says.

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no, it only killed my soul

I liked the BCS. Needed to be expanded to 4, though.

It definitely did. Between the lack of interest for a regional game and the fact that many people would have watched to pull for, in this case Oklahoma St, to beat the best of the SEC, it was going to be and was a ratings disaster.

This was the only time in the BSC history that when there was 2 teams very close for the second spot, that the one that would have the biggest impact on viewership wasn't selected. This was an unusual situation, because in all of the other BCS cases, the team that would have the most viewership also would bring in the most fans.

Bama brought lots of fans, I believe allot of kids in Alabama got a trip to NO and 2 days off of school for Christmas so there fans could afford the tickets. That was or third BCS championship in NO and the were multiple times the amount of kids than the first 2 combined.

Yes. That was the final nail in the coffin. They announced the formation of a playoff about a month later.

The LSU-Alabama rematch helped put a sour taste in a lot of people's mouths that helped bring about the 4 team playoff, at least for a lot of folks outside the SEC.

And last year's UGA-Bama game may bring about an expanded 6 or 8 team playoff.

Plus, while it made sense at the time, the seeding was off with Clemson at #1, as they were shown to be the weakest of the 4 teams there.

Absolutely