Alabama Football: Could a "Game of the Century" Be Brewing Next Season with LSU?

Larry Burton (Syndicated Writer)  If the people who didn't like all the hype from the first Alabama-LSU game and then even more infuriated by the rematch of the two in the BCS National Championship Game, how bad will they hate it if the two meet next year undefeated and ranked in the top two?

Far fetched?

No, not with the talent each team will bring back. Each could be lining up again next year in yet another do or die game, not only for the SEC West, but for possibly another national championship.

And what will critics, especially those same critics who cried so hard against the two meeting up in the BCS Championship Game say if that game provides talk that once again, these could be the best two teams in country yet again.

Will a special rule be made to prevent the BCS Championship Game from becoming an all SEC final next year too?

You can almost count on it.

There is no way the media, the coaches poll and the computers will allow it to happen again.

There are those who will say it would kill college football, that it would cheapen the championship, that it would taint all the other conferences as inferior and many things much worse.

But would it?

Much will depend on the outcome of this BCS Championship Game. Should Alabama win there would have been ample justification that these indeed were best two teams in college football.

They would have split their games together, but only one will be a true champion.

But if LSU should win again, the critics cries will be loud that Oklahoma State should have been given the chance, that Stanford should have been given a chance or almost any other of the one loss teams.

Will that be a fair statement?

Probably not, but it will certainly hold more water with an Alabama loss.