Yea I watched that. Really though, like was stated, they gave the edge ONLY because it was at Jordan-Hare. They made good points, and if you're looking at it from a neutral standpoint the fact that the home team has won every year for 6 years is a hard number to ignore. Woody (I think it was woody) said the scored would be 31-30 Auburn on a missed LSU field goal.
If you really step back and look at it from a college football fan and not an LSU fan, it's easy to see why so many pick Auburn. Auburn has homefield advantage, in this series the home team has been victorious in recent history, Auburn is ranked a bit higher (regardless of whether you think they may be overrated), and Auburn has been playing extremely well so far this year (just like we have). I don't have a problem with them picking Auburn, it'll all be crystal clear late Saturday evening.
Re: ESPN College Gameday Well it is just sad and pathetic that the Gameday crew will not make many (if any) trips to the south this season. There isn't any place in the country that can match the pageantry or intensity of SEC football. This is a bad decision on their part...:lsup: :lsup: :crystal: :lsup: :lsup:
Hmm, I never thought about that. But didn't Game Day go to at least one CBS televised game, ND vs. Tenn? Too bad if ESPN doesn't go to the SEC because of CBS, it'll be ESPN's loss, not too many big ABC games until November.
Bah I can never remember which ones which. If that's the case though I usually like Skip. I find him mildly enterntaining, and like I stated if you look at it without school bias, what they say makes a lot of sense. I like the fact LSU is going in as the underdog. It gives us fire and we won't go in cocky.
Chris Fowler explains Gameday's decision to go to USC-Nebraska " For 13 seasons, the locations of the GameDay road shows have been editorial decisions based on the college football landscape. The basic principle was to (almost) always come from the site of the "biggest game," or occasionally, "the best story." Several times, we have visited the edge of the radar screen to pay tribute to the Mid American Conference's rise (at Bowling Green), the service academies (Air Force and West Point) or the tradition of the Bayou Classic. Now, the philosophy has been rethought by upper management. For the first time, the competitive landscape of football programming is a frequent consideration. Serving the needs of ABC's new prime-time package of games is often a priority. The decision on GameDay's site is less a clear-cut "best game" philosophy now and is more complicated, made on a landscape where terms like "synergy" and "branding" live." http://insider.espn.go.com/ncf/insi...t=fowler_chris&id=2588686&skipPrestitial=true
