#Tebow316: #BCS Preview – Roll Tide v Geaux Tigers

I know that everyone is overly excited about Tim Tebow 3:16, and the Broncos much deserved victory over the Steelers.  Te-Bow(before me) outclassed Ben Wretched-Burger.  So what did we learn?  That we (YesMSG included) pre-judged this game.  So that leads me to preview the next foregone conclusion — that tonight´s BCS Championship is between the two best teams in the country.

Really?  Who knows?

(Admittedly, YesMSG will not be watching.  Not only does the game start at 11:30pm, but I only slept 3 hours since RPG I decided to wake me up during his somnambulance just so I could watch him miss the ´pool´and wee wee all over the bathroom floor.  But I digress.) 

Everyone in the South (intellectual capital of the USA* if you count the German engineers who created the space program), says the SEC is the dominant football conference.  This includes fans of Ole Miss, Miss. State, Vandy (hot chix though), Kentucky, etc.  Yes, I agree that Bama and LSU are two elite programs, but consider this:

• Do you know who Jordan Jefferson, Jarrett Lee and AJ McCarron are?  They are your district managers at Walmart next year.  The teams´ QBs are nothing to fear
• Alabama´s best player is Trent Richardson, and he is great.  Stop him, though, and stop ´Bama
• LSU´s best offensive player is a Cornerback/Punt Returner, the Honey Badger
• Do you think their defenses have ever faced anyone like Andrew Luck?  Only one of top three most celebrated College QB´s (along with Elway and P. Manning) of the past 30 years?  No
• And how about a combo like Brandon Wheeden and Justin Blackmon?  Blackmon is an absolute monster, and could be the second pick in the draft behind Luck
• So while SEC myopia claims that the Ok State and Stanford defenses are bad, I am not so sure they are not good enough to hold the score down on the Tigers and Tide
• Consider the Offense (Stan; OSU) v the Defense (LSU; Bama) to be the proverbial Irresistable Force v the Immovable Object; however,
• The opposite is also true: Offense (LSU; Bama) v Defense (Stan; OSU) is the Resistable Force v the Movable Object
• Finally, if it were all defense, then the Ravens would have multiple Super Bowl titles and no one would be talking about the Patriots (horrible secondary) and Packers (last ranked D) as potential Super Bowl victors

So there you have it.  Barring an LSU blowout like 34-3, the true champion will be in as much doubt as before the BCS era.

* Apologies to my War Eagle pal; the exception that proves the rule

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