So let's see. LSU just completed a perfect regular season during which it beat Texas, Texas A&M, Alabama, Auburn, and Florida, among others. It's ranked #1, yet its “reward” for going undefeated is an extra game; this extra game the “SEC Championship” on Saturday. LSU's players will have to endure yet another slugfest as a reward for being perfect against a 1-loss Georgia team that knows, if it wins, that it will join LSU in the upcoming college footballplayoffs.
Or will it? Given the politically correct nature of college football's playoff system, some feel a team must be a “conference champion” in order to make the playoffs. So even though LSU has already completed an undefeated season with a schedule that arguably no other team could complete without a loss, by Saturday it could be SEC runner-up. In short, and based on the supreme illogic that reigns over college football today, LSU could be pushed out of the playoff picture with a loss on Saturday.
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