I just got back from Baton Rouge. Note : Texas Department of Transportaion - Thanks for being complete morons and putting a 3 hours backup delay on I-20 during the Holdidays. Nice call. Anyway I digress. Is LSU assured a BCS game, even if the wheels come off in Atlanta and we lose. They say Texas is going to a BCS game, well LSU (If we lose) will have one more win then UT, completely dismantled a team that beat UT (Arkansas) and LSU played in a championship game where UT did not even win their division. IN short, win or lose is LSU going to a BCS bowl game ? Thanks F the Horns, F the BCS, F ESPN and Trev Albert and F the Texas Department of Transportation...
no more then likely we wouldn't. no team that has ever lost the championship game has went to a bcs game. 90% chance we wouldn't.
I have spent many a time on the I-20 stretch between Shreveport and Dallas cursing the Texas Dept of Transportation....Sometimes I wonder what the hell they are thinking...
LSU loses, it will be the Capital One Bowl in Orlando...Texas and Ohio State get the at-large bids...
I-10 between Baton Rouge and Houston is no better. I recently drove from Baton Rouge to Nashville on I-55 and I-40 and was actually surprised that there were no massive traffic tieups due to construction.
Sorry to keep it off topic but I35 between Lewisville and Austin (if not OK City and San Antonio) is consistently horrible. Back to the topic if we lose we will not go to a BCS without being a BCS conference champion you have to finish in the Top 4 or 5 in the BCS to be guaranteed a BCS at large spot. OSU or Texas will have that locked down if we get beat.
If you are in the Big 12 or SEC and want to make a BCS game without winning the conference you are better off not even going to the conference championship. In 2001, Tennessee deserved to go to a BCS bowl over UF. Tennessee was one win away from the national title game and then ends up in the Citrus Bowl.
In the same year NEB made it to the Championship game against Miami, and they were not in the Big 12 Championship Game.
That right there shows the need that you need to win your conference in order to be able to play for the national title. It would make winning your conference even more valuable.
Assuming OK beats KSU, Texas and Ohio State appear to be the at large bids in the BCS. The only change to this would be an OK loss in which OK would take one of the at large spots and still probably be in the Championship Game. If we lose Sat we are out of the BCS entirely. Texas has 2 loses and is runner up in South division of the Big 12, so no better than third place in the Big 12. Ohio State also has two loses, and the Big 10 does not have a Championship game. So if we lose we would fall behind a 2 loss Team that could not make it to their own Championship game and another 2 loss team that did not have to risk getting another loss because their league does not have a championship game. Easy answer for us to win on Saturday, and I think we will. It is just the more I look into the BCS the less sense it makes. ESPN link
