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Biggest game in SEC football history?
There have been huge football football games played in the Southeastern Conference. Nothing new with that happening. After a while big games become common place, almost ordinary for SEC teams. The question in my mind is simply - have two SEC teams played a more important game against one another? There has never been a BCS Championship game quite like the one that is going to be played Monday night.
This is a game that will change NCAA football history and manner in which a national champion is determined forever. In terms of world peace and hunger in Africa that might seem insignificant. In terms of living in the Southeast it is paramount. When you think about everything this game means it's not surprising that Alabama is involved. It seems to me that Alabama is always involved in important games, and games that change the face of college football. From a fateful trip to Pennsylvania which destroyed the myth of the supremacy of Ivy League football to the Rose Bowl games which determined the national championship it was Alabama that was always in the heart of the issue. It was also Alabama who changed the rules. After tomorrow night it will be Alabama that changes the rules again. Whether the NCAA goes to a plus one or two format or even a playoff it will be the Crimson Tide that caused the change.
That is what makes the University of Alabama the most prominent football program in American college football. LSU might well win the game, but it will be Alabama who defied the norm and once again interposed itself between the status quo and change. Change never occurs without some friction to those who are effected. The national media condemned the BCS system for allowing Alabama reach the championship game, while at the same time acknowledging that LSU and Bama are the best two teams in the NCAA. Ironically, the rules of the BCS made it possible for the Tide to play. Even more ironically it is Alabama who remains one of the most outspoken in a desire for a change for a playoff system.
If Alabama and her fans seem to have a chip on their shoulder it is easy to understand. It;s clear that no one wanted the Tide even if they played by the rules. If playing by the rules allowed this game to happen then let's change the rule. A chip on 'Bama's shoulder isn't new. When you are the most hated football program outside your fan base you learn to live with the feeling. I have nothing against LSU. They are a fellow member of the SEC and an honored opponent. They beat the Tide fair and square in the regular season. Kudos for that win. But for all their success the Bayou Bengals (and I love them) can never be Alabama anymore than Miami, Auburn, or FSU. The greatest success of LSU has come recently, and regardless how good your football team might be it cannot generate history or tradition. From the 1922 Penn game to 2009 BCS game in Pasadena the Crimson Tide has indeed written their name in Crimson lore.
If LSU beats Alabama, and it seems popular now to think they will, it will be significant not because of how good the Tigers have played this season. They will be forever know as the team that had to beat Alabama twice in one season to win the National Championship. That would be the significance of an LSU win. If you can beat Alabama twice this season you deserve to be national champions. There can be no doubt of that. So when this game finally brings about the change that college football needs you can round up the usual suspects to blame - namely, the SEC and Alabama. That stature is the benefit of being an Alabama football fan. Alabama fans don't love their team more than any other fan base loves theirs. That is one reason I've always love the swagger of the Kentucky basketball fan base. They know their program the best, we know their program is the best, and we know that they know that we know their program is the best in the SEC. The same applies to the Crimson Tide. When you are an Alabama fan you know the bad times won't last but you also know the good times will go on forever. And each Alabama fan is a part of the ride.
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Biggest game in SEC football history?
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| 1935 Rose Bowl |
There have been huge football football games played in the Southeastern Conference. Nothing new with that happening. After a while big games become common place, almost ordinary for SEC teams. The question in my mind is simply - have two SEC teams played a more important game against one another? There has never been a BCS Championship game quite like the one that is going to be played Monday night.
This is a game that will change NCAA football history and manner in which a national champion is determined forever. In terms of world peace and hunger in Africa that might seem insignificant. In terms of living in the Southeast it is paramount. When you think about everything this game means it's not surprising that Alabama is involved. It seems to me that Alabama is always involved in important games, and games that change the face of college football. From a fateful trip to Pennsylvania which destroyed the myth of the supremacy of Ivy League football to the Rose Bowl games which determined the national championship it was Alabama that was always in the heart of the issue. It was also Alabama who changed the rules. After tomorrow night it will be Alabama that changes the rules again. Whether the NCAA goes to a plus one or two format or even a playoff it will be the Crimson Tide that caused the change.
If Alabama and her fans seem to have a chip on their shoulder it is easy to understand. It;s clear that no one wanted the Tide even if they played by the rules. If playing by the rules allowed this game to happen then let's change the rule. A chip on 'Bama's shoulder isn't new. When you are the most hated football program outside your fan base you learn to live with the feeling. I have nothing against LSU. They are a fellow member of the SEC and an honored opponent. They beat the Tide fair and square in the regular season. Kudos for that win. But for all their success the Bayou Bengals (and I love them) can never be Alabama anymore than Miami, Auburn, or FSU. The greatest success of LSU has come recently, and regardless how good your football team might be it cannot generate history or tradition. From the 1922 Penn game to 2009 BCS game in Pasadena the Crimson Tide has indeed written their name in Crimson lore.
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| 1926 Johnny Mack Brown runs for glory and Hollywood |
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| 1922 which killed they myth of Eastern football superiority |
On Monday we pick the winner
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