re: The reason behind the anti-Bama sentiment

agreed

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Play OSU and all those worms stay in the can.

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Agreed. If LSU beats Bama again and OSU, as Big12 Champ wins its BCS bowl, you have an unnecessary and valid controversy.

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I think the point is if the first game was at Tiger Stadium and LSU lost, would there be a rematch?

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Ding Ding!!! Winnah!! I seriously doubt it.

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1. This rematch talk stands conventional thinking on its head. College football operates under the assumption of lose and you're out. If you lose, it's out of your hands. While I know the BCS does not exclude rematches, conferences are set up, and have historically been set up to determine a champion. Said champion is awarded the opportunity to play against another conference champion (or at least a team from another conference) because of College football teams play roughly 10% of the available teams. That's a pretty small sample when compared to other sports. To omit and exclude the sample pool from the other 90% of teams, several of which have comparable resumes (OSU and VT in particular), has not been the way it works. This is irksome.

2. There is the assumption that a rematch would not be granted the other way around. I think there is a feeling that a rematch would not occur if it were any team other than Bama. Had LSU lost, they would be looking in. To compare, would you see Arkansas, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, or Auburn with the identical resume being propped up for a rematch?

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This is complete conjecture and completely false. The BCS rules address a situation where two teams from the same conference play in the NC game even when neither won the conference. Clearly, the BCS expects rematches and expects teams to end up in the NC game even if they don't win their conference. LSU fans act like they are getting cheated. If anyone is cheated, it would be OSU. But OSU's coach told reporters today that although he doesn't have a vote, if he did, he would vote Bama #2, OSU #3. I don't know if I would call it fear, but I would call it concern. If we had a +1 4-team playoff, Bama and LSU would still end up playing in a rematch. It would just happen a week later. Rematches happen in all other levels of football, high-school FCS, NFL, etc. Heck, if Virginia Tech wins the ACC, it will be in a rematch game against Clemson.

It is not "anti-Bama sentiment":
It simply places LSU in a "No win" situation.
If we win (Again! ) against Bama, nothing is affirmed. We've already beaten them on the road.
And others (Okie state, Stanford, etc.) will claim the title is tarnished, b/c they didn't get a shot at all.
And we have to beat the same, excellent team TWICE to claim the title.
It's fair to no one.

PatriotAlum, as has already been discussed ad nauseum, how would you like it if the roles were reversed, and the Tide had to beat LSU twice to win the BCS, yet LSU would only have to beat the Tide once to win the BCS? Are you gonna tell me you would've thought that was fair?

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I can't seem to remember - who did OkSt lose to?

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I can't seem to remember - who did The University of the Damned at Tuscaloosa beat?

It's all LSU faulf, we did not beat them by a couple of tds.

It comes down to weight of what you think is important. Is putting the best two teams on the field important? If so, rematch. If you think the teams who earned the right to play for the championship should play, (if OK state wins vs OK) then it's OK St and Lsu.

The truth is Alabama and Lsu have been ranked so highly throughout the season because they have played well and are in the SEC. OKST has beaten almost as many good teams as Lsu has, and IMO deserves to be #2 based on resume`. But do I think head to head OKST could beat Alabama? F*ck no. They'd get destroyed. But, playing a tougher schedule has to mean something, doesn't it?

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After the 2007 season, LSU can't bitch about a "losing and your out" Bama playing for it all.

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Who won the SEC that year?