Legacies At Stake in LSU-Bama Clash (Plus Prediction)

Will Les Miles win his second title tonight?

My Pacific Northwest friends are not too jazzed about tonight’s LSU-Alabama BCS National Championship Game. I have heard the term boring used several times.

No, tonight’s game will not be the second coming of this year’s Alamo Bowl, in which Baylor defeated Washington, 67-56. This second installment of LSU-Bama will be a slugfest, an affair where every yard has significance.

LSU-Bama: Round Two could be played in the low teens, or not. LSU won the first game 9-6 in overtime, after all.

This game is not about style points though. It is about legacies.

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An LSU Fan In Portland’s BCS Title Game Thoughts

This may disappoint my friends in Portland but there is an upcoming college football game I am more interested in than Monday’s BCS National Title Game between Oregon and Auburn.

The game I am referencing is LSU’s clash with Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl Friday night. Guest blogger and Oregon alum Ben Lundin might have been correct when he implied no one outside Louisiana and Texas cared about the game, except he forgot my mailing address also says Portland, Oregon.

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