GoldRing: "How do you like the way that the college football public just keeps going along with the rip off artist like the BCS, and the ESPN TV network monopoly in college football broadcasting in America. The post season Bowls selection was about the worst that I have ever seen. I can't imagine buying a $300.00 dollar Orange, Rose, or Sugar Bowl ticket. To go see those ridiculous Bowl match ups."
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GeauxTigerNation links: Bowl thoughts
December, 3, 2012
By ESPN.com staff | ESPN.com
GeauxTigerNation has more coverage of the LSU Tigers:
Gary Laney writes : Tigers fans might bemoan a trip to the Chick-fil-A Bowl with other teams landing in bigger bowls, but LSU gets a great matchup with high-powered Clemson.
David Helman writes
: LSU's trip to the Georgia Dome for the Chick-fil-A Bowl will work wonders for LSU recruiting.
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LSU Coach Les Miles is happy to be "wanted" by the Chick-fil-A Bowl
LSU Tigers Les Miles will take LSU to the Chick-fil-A Bowl for the third time in his eight-year tenure.
(Photo by Brett Duke, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)
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Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on December 03, 2012 at 12:01 PM, updated December 03, 2012 at 12:49 PM
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- LSU tumbles down the bowl pecking order to Chick-fil-A, will play Clemson
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LSU Coach Les Miles had his blinders on Monday. While the rest of Tiger nation is gnashing its teeth over the perceived "falling" to the Chick-fil-A Bowl to play No. 13 Clemson on Dec. 31, Miles expressed delight at his third trip there as LSU coach.
"I want to go to the place that wants us," Miles said in a teleconference with the respective coaches, athletic directors and bowl officials. "I personally enjoy the place that (bowl president and CEO) Gary Stokan and Chick-fil-A have arranged that we would have the opportunity to play Clemson. I haven't looked at it much further than that."
LSU gets taken down a notch in bowl order, to meet Clemson in Chick Fil A: vlog LSU beat writers Jim Kleinpeter and Randy Rosetta analyze the Tigers' fall to the Chick Fil A Bowl. Watch video
At 10-2, Clemson is clearly the second-best team in the Atlantic Coast Conference against another 10-2 team that lost only to the Nos. 2- and 3-ranked BCS teams (Alabama and Florida). LSU appeared headed for the Cotton Bowl until the admission of Northern Illinois into the BCS mix set off a domino effect that knocked the Tigers out of a possible Cotton Bowl match with Texas into the current game. Read more...http://www.nola.com/
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ESPN: Matchups, not pecking order, got LSU (Posted on 12/3/12 at 1:11 p.m.)
This appears to have just come out...Pretty much what we've been saying..
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BATON ROUGE, La. -- There were angry LSU fans Sunday when word leaked out that the Tigers had dropped all the way to the Chick-fil-A Bowl to face Clemson on New Year’s Eve.
It’s an outrage, they said. How is an LSU team ranked No. 8 in the BCS rankings No. 6 in the SEC pecking order?
Fair question. The Chick-fil-A Bowl is tied to the No. 5 team out of the SEC, which, as usual, became No. 6 this year after two SEC teams qualified for BCS bowl game.
If you compared results among the six SEC teams with double-digit wins, it’s hard to rationalize LSU being the sixth choice among those teams.
There are two one-loss SEC teams -- No. 2 Alabama, which will play in the Discover BCS National Championship game, and No. 3 Florida, which will play in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. Both deserved their spots.
Of the teams with two losses or fewer, only Florida (3-1) and LSU (2-2) played four of them, with the Tigers going 2-0 against fellow two-loss teams.
LSU beat South Carolina and Texas A&M, two teams that were invited to bowls higher in the pecking order than the Chick-fil-A. A&M landed the much-coveted Cotton Bowl spot despite losing to LSU at College Station.
It would seem that would put LSU, which is also the second-highest ranked two-loss SEC team (behind Georgia, which suffered its second loss to Alabama in the SEC championship game) at the top of the pecking order.
But, the bowl invitation process is often a beauty contest based on who looks like it can put hind-ends in seats, bodies in hotel beds and eyes on the tube.
LSU seems to have lost those battles this year.
After Georgia played Alabama to the wire Saturday, coming within five yards of the BCS title game, it became a more attractive choice for the Capital One to play Nebraska. The game in Orlando has a long history of favoring Eastern Division teams.
When Oklahoma was knocked out of the BCS by Northern Illinois’ inclusion, the Sooners got the Big 12’s AT&T Cotton Bowl bid, making it easy for the Cotton to invite Texas A&M. If OU had gone, as many expected, to the Sugar Bowl, Texas would have landed in the Cotton.
LSU would have been the likely Cotton choice if Texas were the opponent since many thought the SEC didn’t want to see the Texas-Texas A&M matchup. But with Texas out of the Cotton Bowl, getting the home-state Aggies to Arlington made sense.
That left the Outback and Chick-fil-A next in the SEC pecking order with two 10-2 teams, LSU and South Carolina, remaining.
Because Clemson is tied to the Chick-fil-A as the ACC’s No. 2 team, it became unlikely that the bowl would want a rematch with South Carolina, which beat the Tigers in the regular-season finale.
So it made sense: South Carolina to Tampa to play Michigan and LSU to Atlanta.
It could be worse.
As for facing Clemson, it lost a little luster with a loss to South Carolina in its regular-season finale. But with Tajh Boyd, the Tigers have a passing game that can test LSU’s young secondary. It will also be the only game going New Year’s Eve.
It might take a while for LSU fans to warm up to it, but it’s a matchup Tigers fans will eventually embrace.
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1968 Peach Bowl: LSU 31, Florida State 27
by LSUsports.net (@LSUsports), LSU Sports Interactive
Editor's Note: Leading up to the 2008 Chick-fil-A Bowl on Dec. 31 in Atlanta, LSUsports.net will take a look back at LSU's four victories in the bowl. LSU has never lost a Chick-fil-A Bowl. Here's a look back at the 1968 Peach Bowl victory over Florida State.
1968 Peach Bowl
LSU 31, Florida State 27
December 30, 1968
Grant Field (35,545)
The inaugural Peach Bowl was meant to be a contrast in offensive styles - LSU's ball control game versus the aerial exploits of Florida State. The fact that the game didn't follow the script was immediately forgotten, as an enthusiastic crowd got caught up in a see-saw battle that turned out to be one of the most exciting postseason games of the 1968 season.
The Tigers fell behind, 13-0, early in the second quarter after turning the ball over on each of their first four possessions. Still, the defense, which held heralded Florida State receiver Ron Sellers to one catch in the opening half, kept the Tigers within striking distance.
The Tigers broke through midway through the second quarter when Craig Burns returned a punt 39 yards for a touchdown to cut the lead to 13-7. Mark Lumpkin booted a 22-yard field goal just before halftime to cut the Tiger deficit to 13-10 heading into the locker room.
LSU took control of the game with its first possession of the second half, driving 51 yards in eight plays, capped by an 11-yard TD pass from Mike Hillman to Bob Hamlett. The Tigers increased their lead to 24-13 moments later when Hillman hit Bill Stober for another 11-yard touchdown pass.
The Seminoles were far from defeated, however. Florida State opened the fourth quarter with a 72-yard drive capped by a two-yard Sellers TD reception to cut the lead to 24-19.
After a failed two-point conversion the tide swung in Florida State's favor again when the Tigers fumbled the ensuing kick, their fourth fumble of the day. The Seminoles followed with another Sellers touchdown and a two-point conversion to give them a 27-24 lead with just over six minutes remaining.
The Tigers responded when Maurice LeBlanc scored on a 2-yard run to cap a nine-play, 61-yard drive that included a 20-yard reception by Tommy Morel on 3rd and 19 to put the Tigers in scoring position.
The game was still not over, however. The Seminoles marched down the field into Tiger territory. Barton Frye solidified the Tiger victory when he knocked down what would have been a game-winning touchdown reception by Sellers, giving the Tigers the ball on downs and allowing them to run out the clock.
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