Oh, there is a rule against two teams playing each other twice? That will be your little secret.
Alabama held LSU to 9 points in their regular season game. Outside of the two games against Bama, LSU averaged 41 points, and held their opponents to an average of 11 points per game.
LSU beat Alabama by 3 points and it took overtime to do that.
Oklahoma State lost to an unranked Iowa State who finished the year 6-7. But you think OK State should have played LSU?
Alabama played more ranked teams than OK State and lost to a far superior opponent than the one that beat the Cowboys. Not a mulligan. The right choice. OK State would have had their ass handed to them by LSU.
As a LSU Alumni ... I don't need a recap ...
It is kind of odd you want to make the case the games Bama won during the season made a difference ... But you don't want to count the one they lost.
They didn't win their Division ... Much less their Conference.
Oklahoma State should have played, but that is neither here nor there ... It is done ... There's no crying on football.
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