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Coach P's take on an LSU-Alabama rematch

By Owen Poole

Publication: theday.com

Published 11/29/2011 12:00 AM
Updated 11/29/2011 03:48 PM

There is just one game standing between a rematch between LSU and Alabama for the national title game. If LSU beats Georgia on Saturday in the SEC Championship game, in all likelihood, it will meet Alabama for the second time for the national title in January.

And it will surely bring some questions as to whether a rematch should take place in a national title game.

UConn coach Paul Pasqualoni gave his take on Tuesday.

"I don't have a solution for that," he said. "Obviously it's such a complex thing. If there was an easy solution we would have had it a long time ago. If LSU's rated the top team in the country and Alabama's the second-rated team in the country, to me, they play. The whole concept of the BCS was to get the two best teams to play each other. If they're clearly the two best teams, to me, it doesn't matter if they're in the same conference and it doesn't matter to me if they play during the course of the year."

To me, a rematch is a hard sell. LSU already beat the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa. Why should they have to play them again? I'd rather see them play Stanford or Oklahoma State.

Stanford didn't do itself any favors losing to Oregon and Oklahoma State lost to Iowa State (a team that only beat UConn by four), so unless the Cowboys leap over Alabama with a win over Oklahoma, we look set for a rematch of a game that consisted of five field goals to decide the national champion.    

 

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