What I figured so far...bore fest. The problem with this close game is that the loser will look like a top five team since the teams are so closely matched. Not sure if these are the two best teams but they are definitely top 10. Maybe we can finally get some closure to the BCS when these two face off again in the BCS Championship game when an undefeated Boise at Stanford get jumped.
Like Ali v. Frazier. Two heavyweights going at it. Sometimes boring, but that doesn't mean they're not the best. I would venture that either team would handle another top 10 team with less difficulty.
This sucks. The national title game is going to repeat these two teams challenge each other to another FG duel
Right now it looks like LSU pretty much has to be able to bludgeon a team for three quarters with the running game before it can really get its offense running. Poor special teams by Bama is the only reason they're not up comfortably right now.
If this is the best football in the land, you can have it. I've seen soccer games with more scoring. These offenses are horrible.
Production values do a lot for these CBS games that come on at 2:30 or prime time, like this one. I've posted this before.. but bears repeating. If you're at home at the TV and switching channels... compare the color and 'look & feel' of the ABC game at Stillwater, vs this one. - notice colors of the field, and the network banners showing the scores - listen to the sound of the major CBS football theme music -- SEC on CBS, youtube clip -- that is used also on Sundays with NFL games. That **** is not inconsequential in establishing perceptions in the mind. Verne and Gary both keep adding dialog that "bolsters" both the teams, and the conference. The production of the game keeps the background stadium sounds elevated so that Verne and Gary can pitch their voices louder and sound more like calling a NASCAR race -- always at a fevered pitch, with embellishments at every turn. It's selling the conference and the teams. "The medium is the message." I'm convinced that a majority of SEC appeal rests on the past 10 years of CBS broadcasts and what that network has accomplished in production values. If the SEC had instead ended up with NBC, for example, whole different story. Try this... imagine in your head hearing these Saturday top-of-line games in the SEC being called by Bob Costas, Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth. For the broadcast theme music, construct something of a hybrid of Olympics and Sunday Night Football. Add to that NBC production values of camera quality. The SEC is both the programs and their history -- and the luck-of-the-draw to have CBS presenting the images and perceptions. CBS has consistently had high value football broadcast values expressed through their technology and sports programming expertise. I give them A+ and put them at the very top of football broadcasts among all networks.
Gary Danielson is a douche, that was clearly an interception. Have to finish the catch for it not to be an interception.
geez, les miles is so good at trick plays that even when it's his team that looks to be beaten by one they come up with some miracle interception at the 1 yard line on a pass that the other team had briefly caught. amazing. and then gets a 72 yard punt to switch field position because saban puts a guy with a sprained ankle on the field who turns a long punt with tons of room for a return into a massive punt. way to go. the mad hatter seems to always find a way to win these games. and that 5 play stretch might be what wins him this one.
SEC SEC SEC SEC... wtf??? this game sucks...terrible offenses...which makes the defenses look incredible...
Interesting comments, Hu Fan. However, CBS's "production value" did not award the SEC the last five national championships. They earned them on the field.
Was anyone else thinking around midway through the second quarter that CBS should just go talk to the two coaches and have them just go right to overtime?
They'll make a special rule now and allow the game to end in a tie. That way they can both play again to a 6-6 overtime game in the NC game.
Wow...the game of the century gets to go to overtime. Color me thrilled about the excitement continuing. At least Les can say they were undefeated in regular play if they lose.
This is what you get when both teams play not to lose. I was joking with a friend earlier that this game could wind up 12-9 in overtime. I may actually get it right.
How many substitution infractions is that for the best, smartest most organized coach in college football?
