Down at The Tire Store, we just don't understand the hoo-ha about a "rematch" in the BCS Championship Game.
If it was Duke / North Carolina in basketball, they might play twice in the season, once in the ACC tourney and still meet at the end of the Final Four and they'd promote the daylights out of it, even if Duke had won every one of the previous meetings. Same story in Women's basketball. Alabama and UGA regularly meet during the season in gymnastics, then for the SEC title, and maybe again at the Super Six (or whatever they call their finals). Baseball is a little different because of the regionals, but you could definitely have a rematch because baseball teams play so many games OOC and so does softball (I understand it's different with a concluding series of games). And what if next season there is an undefeated Oklahoma State and a one-loss Oklahoma, and everyone else in the country has three losses. What then? 9-3 LSU goes over Oklahoma?
If this had been a four-team playoff, LSU would have beaten Stanford to death, we'd have beaten OK State, probably by at least three scores, and we end up in the same place, just with one more game played for each team. And incidentally, if I had a vote, I'd have rated Stanford higher than OK State, by virtue of comparing losses.
But don't get me wrong, anything that ends the ridiculous voting system in football, which has been controversial for as long as we have all been alive, and was not "fixed" by the BCS no matter what Kramer says, has my support. I have an acquaintance (not Alabama or LSU) who said he hopes we win the game 9-6 in overtime, just to try to blow up the BCS.
And one more thing, while we're at it: Who said nobody wanted to see Alabama and LSU play again? How many people went to see Alabama play its home games this year compared to how many people went to see Ok State? I'll tell you: the paid attendance at Alabama's 2011 home games was 712,747, an overage of 101,821 per game. Out in Stillwater they sold 343,376 tickets, a per-game average of only 57,229. More people paid to go see Ok State's opponents [383,456] than went to see the 'Pokes, and this includes all those folks at Iowa State who paid to sit out in the cold that Friday night in Ames when the Cyclones came back from a 24-7 third quarter deficit to beat OSU in double overtime.
In fact, based on attendance figures, more people would rather go see games played by Alabama's opponents [81,170 average per game] than go to Stillwater to watch the Cowboys.
LSU attracted 557,210 to Tiger Stadium this season, a per game average of 92,868. And you could put the average attendance at Ok State games into the stadiums of LSU's opponents and still have 20,000 empty seats.
Down here at The Tire Store, we could attract a crowd close to the average Oklahoma State home game with a two-for-one special, provided of course that we included free rotation and balance. And if anyone from another conference wants to complain about how "unfair" it is that the SEC has ruled the BCS for six years running, just tell them it's their own dad-gum fault.
The Correspondent From The Tire Store
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