Georgia vs LSU: Are the Tigers a Lock for the BCS Title Game, Win or Lose?

The LSU Tigers have been the most impressive and dominant team of the 2011 college football season, and you won’t be able to find many people out there who will argue with that statement.

The Tigers started off the year with a statement victory over the then No. 3-ranked Oregon Ducks at Cowboys Stadium, and that turned out to be just the start of their run to a possible national title.

Along the way, they knocked off seven ranked opponents, and they’ll have the opportunity to take down their eighth this weekend when they head to Atlanta to face off against No. 14 Georgia in the SEC championship game.

The Tigers have already proved so much this season that it almost doesn’t seem fair to make them have to notch another victory over a Top 25 opponent to prove their supremacy.

It's even more unfair since their likely title game opponent, Alabama, will be sitting home resting comfortably this weekend, eating some popcorn and getting a head start on scouting their championship game foe.

You know the drill, though, if a conference can make a few bucks off a conference championship game weekend, well, then you’re getting a conference championship game, whether it’s needed or not.

So that’s why the boys from Baton Rouge will be making the trip up to the Georgia Dome this weekend.

If LSU wins the game and finishes 13-0, all signs seem to point to a “Game of the Century” rematch between LSU and Alabama in the BCS national championship game down in New Orleans, but the question is, if LSU loses, then what?

You could potentially have six one-loss teams and an undefeated Houston team all trying to state their case as to why they belong in the national championship game.

It would be the true “BCS doomsday scenario” that everyone has always talked about.

Still, it’s unlikely that LSU could fall out of the championship game at this point in the season, even if the Tigers somehow lose to Georgia.

Yes, losing late in the season is never good, and it will certainly hurt a team in the eyes of the BCS computers, but it looks like the Tigers are locked into the BCS championship game no matter what.

If Georgia wins the SEC, though, it would be hard to explain how two SEC teams, which didn't win the conference championship, deserve to play in the national championship game.