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GoldRing: "It seems very ridiculous to think that Notre Dame will beat Alabama for the 2012 college football BCS championship. I simply don't believe the argument that Notre Dame will beat this Alabama football team. Just how is Notre Dame going to beat Alabama. With their offense? Johnny football plays for Texas A&M. With their defense? No, I don't think that ether. So we all know before the games is played that this Notre Dame football team doesn't have the ability to beat this Alabama Crimson Tide football team. There's really is then no argument about this years BCS championship football games outcome? We need a blog sports newspaper where the bloggers can write their own information about college football."
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Photo Gallery: Chick-fil-A Bowl Day 3: Practice, Team Party
12/28/2012
On Friday, the LSU football team had their final practice at the Georgia Dome before taking part in a team dinner.
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SEC Blog
What else is at stake for Alabama?
December, 28, 2012
By
Edward Aschoff | ESPN.com
Everyone knows that back-to-back national championships, three titles in four years and dynasty status are on the line when Alabama takes on Notre Dame in the Discover BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 7.
But in the world of numbers, there's even more on the line for the Crimson Tide. ESPN Stats & Information dove into the numbers game to find out what is statistically on the line for the Tide down on South Beach:
" Alabama is trying to win its third title in four years, done previously only by Notre Dame (1946, 1947, and 1949) and Nebraska (1994, 1995, 1997) in the poll era (since 1936).
Alabama has won nine national titles in that span (AP and/or coaches’ poll), the most of any team. Notre Dame is only one behind them with eight.
" Nick Saban can join Bear Bryant, Frank Leahy and John McKay, as the only coaches with four national championships in major college football. With a win, Saban would have four in an eight-year span of coaching college teams (putting aside his two years with the Miami Dolphins). Leahy is the only coach to have won four in eight years.
" The Crimson Tide can secure the SEC’s seventh consecutive national title and give the conference nine of the 15 BCS championships.
Notable Winning Streaks ended by Notre Dame
- 47 Oklahoma football (1957)
- 88 UCLA men’s basketball (1974)
- 92 North Carolina women’s soccer (1994)
* All NCAA record streaks
The only other times a conference has won three straight titles were when the Big Ten won three straight from 1940 to 1942 and the SEC won three in a row from 1978 to 1980.
Notre Dame may be better suited than anyone else to end this historic streak by the SEC.
The Irish have ended three NCAA-record winning streaks during their athletics history, not to mention a 25-game winning streak by Florida State baseball in 2002 and a 112-game winning streak in home conference games by UConn women’s basketball in 2005.
" The Crimson Tide are trying to become the first program to win back-to-back BCS championships. Three previous reigning champs (Florida State, Miami, USC) have returned to the title game, but all three lost in their quest to repeat.
" Alabama is looking to become just the third program to win back-to-back consensus national championships since 1950 (the first year UPI voted on a champion) joining 1955-56 Oklahoma and 1994-95 Nebraska. Alabama has previously won consecutive AP titles, but never two straight consensus national titles.
" The last time an SEC team lost a national championship game to a team from outside the conference was when Nebraska beat Florida in the Fiesta Bowl to end the 1995 season (’96 Fiesta Bowl).
Since that time, the SEC has won eight straight bowl games against “outsiders” with a national championship on the line (thus, not counting Alabama’s win over LSU last year).
" Alabama is 4-1 in bowl games under Nick Saban (2-0 in BCS title games) and has 33 bowl wins all-time -- the most in college football history.
The Tide have won five straight bowls when ranked either No. 1 or No. 2 in the polls. Their last two bowl losses with a national championship on the line both came against Notre Dame (after the 1973 and 1974 seasons).
" Alabama is one win away from keeping a streak alive for the state of Alabama.
If the Tide can win the BCS title, it will be the fourth straight for the state. Alabama won in 2009 and 2011. Auburn won in 2010.
In the four major sports plus college football and men's college basketball, only twice has a state/province won four consecutive championships with multiple teams. From 1949-56, New York won eight straight World Series titles with the Yankees, Giants and Dodgers.
And from 1987-90, the province of Alberta won four straight Stanley Cups with Edmonton and Calgary (since 1927 when the NHL assumed control of the Stanley Cup).----------------------------
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SEC Blog
Lunchtime links
December, 28, 2012
By
Edward Aschoff | ESPN.com
The bowls are coming! The bowls are coming!
- Alabama players say they're confident that backup center Ryan Kelly will rise to the occasion if he's asked to step in for the injured Barrett Jones in the Discover BCS National Championship.
- Nick Saban talks about the different approach to bowl game prep.
- Former Alabama and Auburn linebacker commit Reuben Foster is "confused" about where to commit.
- Joel Thomas is ready for his new challenge as Arkansas' new running backs coach.
- Florida's success this season has come from the Gators staying the course with Will Muschamp.
- Georgia's scholarship numbers problem was a non-factor in 2012.
- LSU's offense aims to keep pace with Clemson.
- Tony Hughes is coaching Mississippi State's entire secondary now that Melvin Smith has left for Auburn.
- Ole Miss tight end Jamal Mosley has been ruled academically ineligible for the BBVA Compass Bowl.
- The Rebels hope to pick up their pace in 2013.
- Michigan's Denard Robinson is an unpredictable challenge for South Carolina.
- Tennessee running backs coach Jay Graham was "rehired" quickly by Butch Jones.
- David Climer of The Tennessean writes that former Vols coach Derek Dooley deserves a little credit for leaving Tennessee's football team in better shape than how he found it.
- Offensive coordinator John Donovan is pointing Vanderbilt's offense toward success.
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LSU FOOTBALL - GEAUX TIGERS!!!
| Peach Bowl | .pdf Les Miles, Josh Dworaczyk, Eric Reid press conference transcript |
| WAFB Sports | Video (1 min, 55 sec): LSU visited Children's Hospital in Atlanta on Thursday |
| WAFB Sports | Video (1 min, 32 sec): LSU DE Star Ke Ke Mingo in Atlanta |
| Bayou Bengals Insider | Dworaczyk set for his final game — finally |
| L. C. American Press | Clemson, LSU pretty even on intangibles |
| College Football News | Peach Bowl Preview: LSU vs. Clemson |
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Chick-fil-A Bowl: LSU-Clemson
LSU's stubborn defense goes up against Clemson's high powered offense in
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On the Bright Side|
Tigers have opportunity to set stage for 2013
By CODY WORSHAM
Tiger Rag Editor
When word got out that LSU would be spending New Year’s Eve in Atlanta for the Chick-fil-A Bowl, fans around the program were noticeably unhappy.
In the wake of the announcement, Tiger fans left angry comments on websites, tweeted their displeasure, and shared GIFs on Facebook of Mike the Tiger holding a sign that said “F**k this bowl.”
Need I say more?
It’s easy to see where the disappointment stems from. The Tigers entered the 2012 season ranked first or second in nearly every major poll, favorites to return to the BCS title game and avenge an embarrassing loss to Alabama on January 9. The 2012 season was supposed to end in 2013, with LSU hoisting the crystal ball high in the Miami sky.
Instead, LSU will wrap up a roller-coaster 2012 season in 2012, having failed to qualify for a New Year’s Day bowl despite winning 10 games.
Whether the Dec. 31 matchup with Clemson results in the Tigers’ 11th win or third loss matters relatively little to present matters. Sure, a victory over Clemson would give LSU a superior claim to the Tiger mascot, the Death Valley moniker for the team’s home stadium, and full rights to the “Tiger Rag” tune. It’d also give LSU yet another top-10 finish and 11-win season, each for a sixth time in Les Miles’ eight campaigns in Baton Rouge.
But most of that is comparatively trivial, especially in the light of Alabama’s pursuit of title number three in four seasons.
No, because of both Miles’ success and Nick Saban’s greater success, LSU will, for the foreseeable future, be unamused by any season’s outcome that doesn’t end with possession of the crystal ball.
That said, the Dec. 31 contest against Clemson is far from irrelevant, given the correct perspective. While the Tigers can do little else but put a bow on the 2012 season, a truly dominant showing on the last day of the year could be exactly the statement LSU needs to make for 2013.
Since the Tigers lost to Alabama in heartbreaking fashion on Nov. 3, all but eliminating their hopes of conference and national titles, everyone has had one eye on a 2013 national championship run.
“It’s hard not to look ahead to next year,” Tiger junior quarterback Zach Mettenberger admitted last month.
Mettenberger’s not alone in prognosticating. LSU’s offense loses little moving into the new season, with linemen Josh Dworaczyk and P.J. Lonergan as the only starters in their final years of eligibility. Even so, backup Elliott Porter should fare well in Lonergan’s shoes next season, and Josh Williford’s return to health and the returns of La’el Collins, Trai Turner, and Vadal Alexander will shore up Dworaczyk’s absence. Read more...http://www.tigerrag.
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Greater New Orleans
Clemson Coach Dabo Swinney prepared for a physical LSU team: video
Posted: Friday, December 28, 2012, 4:50 PM
Clemson Coach Dabo Swinney, center Dalton Freeman and defensive end Malliciah Goodman talk to the media at the Chick-fil-A Bowl press conference.
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Bart Wright: Miles confident that LSU to play its best against Clemson
LSU head coach Les Miles Thursday: LSU head coach Les Miles Thursday
But here they are, playing before New Year’s Day, and you can hear skepticism from the Bayou Brigade that maybe LSU isn’t completely focused on this game because players were hopeful of a bid to the Cotton Bowl.
If that’s the case, it’s a great bit of news for Clemson.
“They are a great team and we are not a great team,” said Clemson coach Dabo Swinney after the Tigers practiced Thursday morning in the Georgia Dome. “(LSU) represents the best of the best. We aren’t there yet, but they represent where we want to be.”
Based on that statement, with which most college football fans would agree, it might make for a more suspenseful game if LSU came out with its lower lip stuck out, wishing it was somewhere else.
LSU coach Les Miles did his best to dispel the notion when he spoke to the media after his team’s late afternoon practice.
“There is great enthusiasm on this team for this game,” Miles said. “We feel like we have a great team and we feel like we have not played our best football, not yet.
“Our football team enjoys participating in cross-sectional-type games in which we play teams from a different area, a different part of the country or a different conference that we don’t often play, so there will be no lack of enthusiasm.” Read more...http://www.
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