LSU-Bamageddon: College Football Week 10

Bama by 4, according to Doc's Sports.

 

Alabama's favored. These may be the two best football teams I've seen since maybe Vince Young's Texas team, which was, yes, a better team all season than USC. I stand by that.

 

I'm not sure this Alabama team is better than the one in 2009. The defense is better 1 thru 11, but they don't have near the offensive skill talent this year they had two years ago, and their kicking game is also not nearly as good.

 

So assuming that's three points for home field, the oddsmakers actually think Bama's the better team. I find that odd.

 

Best is, well, relative -- and subject to change on a dime. I remember hearing in 2003 questions about whether Oklahoma was the best team in college football history. The awards show in December was overflowing with Sooners. Best offense ever? Best defense? Best team? Best something, for sure.

OU then lost to K-State and to LSU to finish the season.

I thought of that when I saw the SI cover earlier this season asking whether Alabama has the best defense in college football history. I think of it every time I hear "best" this or that.

 

LSU's running game is not great.

Alabama has a sophomore quarterback that hasn't had to win a game with his arm yet.

Both defenses are more or less impenetrable.

Sounds pretty even to me, with a slight edge to the home team as you'd expect.

 

Can't argue that.

P.S. I threw in a "relative" for the Bama beat writers (and the veteran LSU ones too, for that matter).

 

LSU's players will be so fired up they'll smoke real grass instead of the synthetic version for this game.

 

If Les doesn't eat it first.

 

My inclination is to take the home team, but Miles has a reputation for being a great coach when you give him extra time prep prepare, as in a bowl game.