Bowl Projections: LSU vs Alabama BCS Championship Rematch Unavoidable?

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If the national championship game were played tomorrow LSU would once again be playing Alabama even though the two teams squared off in Tuscaloosa with the Tigers coming out victorious.

Many people don’t think it is fair for them to have to beat the same team twice without it being in the conference championship but at this point it seems like the only real destination for both of these teams.

No. 3 Arkansas has not played well on the road at all this season and it will have to beat LSU in Baton Rouge on Friday. Alabama has to beat No. 24 Auburn on the road but the Tide have the best defense in the country, ranking first in every major statistical category. It is unlikely that either of these teams will be upset.

Then you have to look at what the other teams are doing in the Top 6. Stanford doesn’t have nearly the strength of schedule to jump into the second spot so it is out of the running. Virginia Tech can still get two quality wins over Virginia and Clemson if it wins out but it won’t be enough to take Alabama out of it.

The only real chance is for Oklahoma State to soundly beat Oklahoma but that hasn’t happened since 2002 but even then the Cowboys are still .11 behind Alabama in the standings and they only can play one more game. Maybe if the game was this weekend and they could play another team on December 3rd things would be different but it looks like Alabama and LSU will be playing again no matter what people say.

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