After a bowl season full of offensive shootouts, LSU coach Les Miles says to expect some "big boy football" when his top-ranked Tigers take on No. 2 Alabama in the Allstate BCS National Championship Game on Monday night. "And I'd expect it to be very, very physical."

http://espn.go.com/college-football/bowls11/story/_/id/7439026/allstate-bcs-national-championship-game-lsu-tigers-les-miles-says-expect-big-boy-football


Really Les? There is like zero buzz around this game right now, as I don't think anyone has any interest in another battle of the field goal kickers if that is what he has in mind for Monday night.

IggyPride00;1043216 wrote:http://espn.go.com/college-football/bowls11/story/_/id/7439026/allstate-bcs-national-championship-game-lsu-tigers-les-miles-says-expect-big-boy-football


Really Les? There is like zero buzz around this game right now, as I don't think anyone has any interest in another battle of the field goal kickers if that is what he has in mind for Monday night.

I wouldn't even call it a battle of the field goal kickers... that's implying both kickers were good. How many kicks did the Bama kicker miss (not like they were all 50+ either)?

Yawn.

Wont watch.

no one cares les..besides douchebag bible thumpers down south

If big boy football is me rather gouging my eyes before watching this game well then....

big boy football or bad offensive football?

only reason I MIGHT watch the game is because I have money on LSU -1

I can watch ESPN dry hump the shit out of the sec any day of the week don't intend on watching 5 full hours of it.

The worst thing about this game is that cats gone wild and the rest of the SEC bandwagon are going to be holding hands in a prayer circle sporting their Lacoste polos and singing kumbaya for the duration. Only in the SEC can an entire conference be a favorite team.

I agree with all these posts so far--any good basketball games on tomorrow night?

bradmaynard;1043348 wrote:The worst thing about this game is that cats gone wild and the rest of the SEC bandwagon are going to be holding hands in a prayer circle sporting their Lacoste polos and singing kumbaya for the duration. Only in the SEC can an entire conference be a favorite team.

Would Rep if I could.

SportsAndLady;1043420 wrote:Would Rep if I could.

got ya' covered :thumbup:

I'm really surprised by this thread. Guess I'm in the minority, but I can't wait for this game.

SportsAndLady;1043420 wrote:Would Rep if I could.

Got ya covered as well.

I still want to hear CGW or anyone else tell me how/why the Sugar Bowl wasn't a Good Defensive Game.

I said weeks ago I wouldn't watch it, and I'm sticking to it. I'm sure I can find something on Netflix to watch.

I forgot it was on tomorrow night until I saw this thread

SportsAndLady;1043236 wrote:Yawn.

Wont watch.

Same here. This is probably the least hype I have ever heard for a championship game. It is so unappealing.

I'm not watching. Busy tomorrow. If I wanted to, I could make time to see it. But A) the game has zero interest to me as a matchup, B) I feel this 'championship' game is a farce, and C) I'd rather not watch than watch and wish I didn't.

The problem with college football from the administrators point of view is that the bowls are so successful because they're so well-watched, etc.

Uhm, no. They're well watched because they're generally large intersectional matchups that we rarely get to see in the regular season. They're strewn out in primetime throughout the week from mid-December until mid-January now. They NYD bowls (played on the 2nd to accommodate television) are thriving off of ancient history. If Oregon-Wisconsin was played on a Monday night in Week 6 of the regular season people would watch at almost the same rate as they did an afternoon game on an observed national holiday. But, we don't get that game. Instead we get Alabama-UT Chattanooga, etc. How thrilling. So, we use the bowls as our last gasp to see how various areas of the country compete with eachother.

Which, this farce of a game fails to let us do. Instead, we're rehashing something we've already watched and already know the outcome. And the opposite result will have little meaning to us.

Secondly, it's college football. In fact, the last college football of the season. So, suffice it to say, college football fans will watch. It's our last chance to see it until August. So, knowing that time is fleeting and we're running out of games, we'll watch Arkansas State-Northern Illinois if only to take in one more game.

And finally, it's on every freakin' day. I get football. Free to my television. Every night in primetime. Who cares the matchup. I'm not sitting there on Saturday afternoon trying to decide which of the 15 games on TV to watch. It's one game. On one channel.

The truth is, we'd do the same thing with the playoffs. We'd watch every game if it was one-game at a time spread out. Big intersectional matchups that we're dying to witness. Primetime, once per day. Because it's college football and it's still on TV this season.

But, the money would be spread out over the entire NCAA, not just the 65 big BCS schools. So, therefore the belief 'we love the bowls' persists.

It's like asking: Do you love your wife? Yes. If you knew you'd only be with her for one more month, wouldn't you make that last month count? Yes. If you had many opportunities to do things with your wife in that time, would you? Yes. If you had to choose between your wife sick and not having a wife, would you want your sick wife? Yes. But, would you rather have a sick wife or a healthy wife? (insert obvious answer)

That's the playoffs. But, since we're not given that option, we take the best option available. And that's the bowls. We don't like the bowls. We really don't. But, we accept it because that's all we have. And we'd rather accept it then not have it at all.

Sykotyk;1044360 wrote:I'm not watching. Busy tomorrow. If I wanted to, I could make time to see it. But A) the game has zero interest to me as a matchup, B) I feel this 'championship' game is a farce, and C) I'd rather not watch than watch and wish I didn't.

The problem with college football from the administrators point of view is that the bowls are so successful because they're so well-watched, etc.

Uhm, no. They're well watched because they're generally large intersectional matchups that we rarely get to see in the regular season. They're strewn out in primetime throughout the week from mid-December until mid-January now. They NYD bowls (played on the 2nd to accommodate television) are thriving off of ancient history. If Oregon-Wisconsin was played on a Monday night in Week 6 of the regular season people would watch at almost the same rate as they did an afternoon game on an observed national holiday. But, we don't get that game. Instead we get Alabama-UT Chattanooga, etc. How thrilling. So, we use the bowls as our last gasp to see how various areas of the country compete with eachother.

Which, this farce of a game fails to let us do. Instead, we're rehashing something we've already watched and already know the outcome. And the opposite result will have little meaning to us.

Secondly, it's college football. In fact, the last college football of the season. So, suffice it to say, college football fans will watch. It's our last chance to see it until August. So, knowing that time is fleeting and we're running out of games, we'll watch Arkansas State-Northern Illinois if only to take in one more game.

And finally, it's on every freakin' day. I get football. Free to my television. Every night in primetime. Who cares the matchup. I'm not sitting there on Saturday afternoon trying to decide which of the 15 games on TV to watch. It's one game. On one channel.

The truth is, we'd do the same thing with the playoffs. We'd watch every game if it was one-game at a time spread out. Big intersectional matchups that we're dying to witness. Primetime, once per day. Because it's college football and it's still on TV this season.

But, the money would be spread out over the entire NCAA, not just the 65 big BCS schools. So, therefore the belief 'we love the bowls' persists.

It's like asking: Do you love your wife? Yes. If you knew you'd only be with her for one more month, wouldn't you make that last month count? Yes. If you had many opportunities to do things with your wife in that time, would you? Yes. If you had to choose between your wife sick and not having a wife, would you want your sick wife? Yes. But, would you rather have a sick wife or a healthy wife? (insert obvious answer)

That's the playoffs. But, since we're not given that option, we take the best option available. And that's the bowls. We don't like the bowls. We really don't. But, we accept it because that's all we have. And we'd rather accept it then not have it at all.

great post all around

It stinks when nobody else in the country is able to rise up enough to make it a better situation. I'll watch the game. Don't care who wins. However, fan of SEC school or not, I truly feel it's the right match-up. Down year in football? Maybe. Bad system? Maybe. Bad luck for fans of the sport? Maybe. However, it is what it is.

LJ;1044317 wrote:I forgot it was on tomorrow night until I saw this thread

This.

I plan on watching. Hope this helps.

I'll watch. I don't get all hung up that it is an all SEC game. The BCS is flawed, but it is what is currently in place. I don't see it.changing any time soon.

I'll watch. Title game....wouldn't miss it.