We'll never know what would have happened. Bama and LSU both had dominant defenses. Oklahoma State and Stanford had dominant offenses. Would have been a perfect year for a 4 team playoff.
Bryce Morrison while that would have been great to see, I still maintain my opinion that no one in the country could beat Alabama or LSU that year besides each other.
@@rayh.8222 Honestly that is just a dumb excuse, I get it it was very tragic, but you can't blame a loss on it. A loss is a loss. It wasn't like Iowa state was dominating the game the whole game we actually came back. It was 24-7 at one point in the 3rd quarter.
And because of that double overtime loss, LSU had to play Alabama again. You don't want to play Nick Saban twice and Les Miles was complacent. But I have some confidence that LSU would have beaten Oklahoma State since they beat either 4 or 5 of the top 10 teams in the country. And if they had done that, they would be considered the greatest team of all time. But thanks to BCS computations and the freak Oklahoma State loss, LSU went slowly but surely downhill from that loss to Alabama until they beat them last Saturday!
@@RadicallyOptimistic nobody gave Alabama that championship. They earned it on the field and went on to win the national championship in decisive fashion.
@@RadicallyOptimistic There was never a rule that said the title game couldn't be a rematch. BCS #1 vs #2, and nobody but a chump would put a team with a loss to unranked ISU in either spot.
FWIW this BCS is the reason we have a playoff now which is what everyone wanted. It woulda have been a great playoff with BAMA, LSU, Okie State and Stanford.
bammybound Now if only they can make the step to actual playoffs like every other level of football. Bama would have still been an at-large which I wouldn't have seen an issue with.
That would have been the best playoff ever, Jarvis Landry and OBJ, AJ McCarron and Trent Richardson, Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon, and Andrew Luck and Zach Ertz. That just sounds amazing.
The BCS had multiple controversies over the years such as 2003, 2004, 2007, and 2011 as notable examples, but 2011 was definitely the final straw and the immediate cause.
LSU's defense did all they could in that title game, the fact that LSU lost 21-0 is not a knock on the defense cause they were on the field All Night Long
Peyton Overall Bama put up 21 against the supposed best defense in college football but the by far best offense in college football would’ve been shut down somehow. Lol
@@SpaceGhost92 Yes because LSU would have been able to run the ball on Oklahoma State which time of possession would have been in LSU's favor. Bama had a dominant defense which kept their offense on the field. BAMA had the ball for 37 minutes of the game. LSUs defense was in bad field position all game because the offense couldnt pass midfield. LSU would have moved the ball on OK STate IMO.
All FGs until a final TD too. Blame Les Miles starting Jefferson over the hot handed Lee. He didn't game plan at all. Cost us the bowl game AND cost us being one if the best college teams in history
@@khughes1997 when the playoff system was started I figured something bigger then 4 teams because there have been undefeated conference championship teams who never got a spot I know those teams are group of 5 teams and little league teams but still
Because, dumbass, lots of #2 teams in the human polls got snubbed in the final game. Kansas State snubbed and #4 Nebraska getting into the BCS championship games were jokes. OU and Nebraska got in when they didn't even win their conference. They tweaked the computer rankings nearly every year. I don't think any poll was more powerful than another: they were all equal parts.
The BCS system took into account the two polls and the computer rankings to make the BCS rankings. So, all three were used to make the final BCS rankings. Bama was #2 in 2 out of 3 and OK State was #2 in 1 out of 3, so that put Bama as #2. Bama smoked LSU so it was't a bad choice to put them in. Would OK State beat LSU, we will never know.
Bryce Morrison yes i know but after Oklahoma state lost to Iowa state Arkansas moved up to number 3 for week 12 against number 1 LSU. Look up that game.
In the last week of the regular season, LSU were #1, Alabama were #2, and Arkansas were #3. When ranked #3, Arkansas suffered a pretty convincing defeat at the hands of the Geaux-Tigers.
Kizito, 2014, really? That kinda worked out against the SEC as a down year, how do you figure? They suffered a few end game bowl defeats that made people question the SEC, not to even add the Alabama loss to tOSU in the first playoff (2014). Strongest SEC years, 2007-2011. Some really strong times since then, but I don't think it has ever recaptured that magic, not fully.
wtf was les miles thinking with that qb! thats probably THE worst qb on a #1 ranked team ive ever seen! dude panicks easy, very indecisive, has shit for instincts. i want to say he was single handedly responsible for LSU's loss in the championship game.
@@braedenbrown2138 Who was the original starter? And didn't Jefferson beat them the year before in 2010 in Baton Rouge? I know LSU won in 2010.. I just can't remember the QB.
@@spidaman0112 Yeah Lee started because of how bad he struggled the first time. Which is extremely dumb give the man a chance. He got us to an undefeated season he deserved the chance to lose.
Everyone forgets how dominant the SEC West was that year. Arkansas of all teams went 11-2. They got destroyed by both LSU and Bama. But then again, they ran roughshod against every other team they went up against. I believe the razorbacks kept Alabama in the title game due to the credibility that the Hogs had.
xCHUBBYMUFFINx Any team that doesn’t win their OWN conference has NO business playing for a National Title, Ohio State was one of those teams last year, Penn State won the Big 10, yet Ohio State gets in the playoffs?? Oklahoma State deserved to play for a National Title that season, you can say how dominant the SEC was, but we’ll never know if another team was better...
@chubbymuffin ok state only won their confrsnce cause they didnt have championship game and they lost to an unranked team that should've took them to #5
bama gets favored cause they never give enough of a reason to not be favored. whether or not you think they should've been put into the playoff the first 4 years they proved they belonged in the top 4 every year (even 2014). In 2014 by barely losing to the eventual champion, in 2015 by routing #3 and beating #1, in 2016 by whooping #4 and barely losing to #2 on a pair of missed OPI calls, and in 2017 by whooping #1 and rallying to defeat #3. None of y'all would argue that OSU in 2014, MSU and Clemson in 2015, Washington and Clemson in 2016, and Clemson and Georgia in 2017 didn't deserve to be there. So how'd they all either lose or have to fight with everything they had to barely win if Alabama was so overrated every year?
I was unfortunate or fortunate enough to be in the OSU band that went up to Ames. Probably the 2nd coldest football game I've ever been to; that including the ISU fans bumping my shoulder as they rush the field. The coldest game of football I've ever attended was the next game after vs. OU; though it was our turn to rush the field, finding out it was all for nothing made it that much colder.
@@thunderzking0342 tcu wasn't in the natty because there was 2 undefeated power 5 teams in front of them. Any other year tcu would have been in because usually there was a team with a loss in the natty but unfortunately for tcu that year, oregon and Auburn were both undefeated.
2019 was probably the best team of ALL TIME. As a Bama fan, it still irks me that we lost to LSU by only 5 points that year. We should have won if Tua hadn't fumbled away that first touchdown, I think that game would have been different. Either way, LSU deserved that title in 2019 and the moniker of "One of the best teams EVER." LSU had talent coming out of their ears in 2019. I do miss coach "O" on the sidelines. He was the PERFECT coach for LSU. Bayou boy that knew what LSU meant to his state.
Great video man I had forgot so much about that season, had no idea about the plane crash right before OSU Iowa state. That’s crazy and that field goal looked pretty good. Such an interesting story
No mention of LSU, Alabama, and Arkansas being in top three. The accomplishment is insane for the SEC. Would love to see a video about SEC dominance from 2005-2015. Insane to see each team have great success here or there.
Why do you southerners have so much pride in your whole conference lol, I’m an Ohio state fan and I hate everyone else in mine lol, do y’all forget y’all are rivals with one another?
This season was the last straw for the BCS. I personally think Alabama and LSU were the best teams, but Oklahoma State definitely should've had a shot to win it all.
Joey OSU beat a ranked OU and bama played a high school team last game of the season. It was done because of the money. Lau bama would draw in more money vs Lsu osu. It was rigged that year and OSU got hosed.
@Bleed Orange LSU was #1, ISU only got to a bowl game because they beat OSU. That's the difference, and Bama proved they were a better team when they beat LSU 21-0.
Im an LSU fan, an thinking of this season.. Iowa State kinda took our national title away. Saban wasnt gonna lose 2 games to the same team in the same season, and that was shown in the 21-0 "blowout" great video that was such a crazy season. Could be a 30/30 for espn IMO. Nice vid.
Definitely. Iowa State assured that our 2011 team wouldn't be up there with 1995 Nebraska and 2001 Miami, just like Motiejunas' back sweat assured that the 2016 Warriors wouldn't be up there with the 1996 Bulls.
The difference between 2011 and 2016 was that Ohio State was the best team in their conference, even if they didn't win the conference title. Alabama not only wasn't the best team in their conference, but they lost the head-to-head to LSU, the best team in the conference. Them being given a second chance was the biggest unfair advantage in sports history.
OSU never played florida.... so yeah. and the SEC had no teams other than Alabama who could challenge them. it was weak. I never said Bama was garbage I just thought that those two teams played a bunch of high school teams in the regular season and were granted, by royalty, the NCG
This season alone is the reason why we have a College Football Playoffs. To avoid stuff like this. Oklahoma State fucked themselves over and Standford got screwed by the computers
@@UtopiaJoeee Got screwed? They lost to an unranked Iowa State and cried about losing a women's coach in a plane crash... while Tuscaloosa was rebuilding after a damn tornado all year.
That year will always be one of the biggest what ifs in college football history. LSU had a GREAT defense. OSU had a GREAT offense with an opportunistic defense. I think the game wouldve been one of the most exciting national championship games in history. Blackmon couldnt be covered by anyone in college that year. I'll always look back at that year and feel a sense of sadness because had ou done what osu did, theres absolutely no question OU wouldve been in the natty. Having said that, that year propelled OSU into the national scene and they're still benefitting from it today
I remember watching "the game of the century" with my family. We were all bored out of our minds. We really didn't care that it was number one vs number two, I don't care how many future NFL players this game had, and it's kind of hard to care at all when this game was ultimately pointless. Iowa State's upset of Oklahoma State essentially made the outcome of this game mean nothing. And to those of you who are probably tempted to say "go watch the Big 12 if you don't like defense," I do enjoy defense. I will never tire of seeing Jadeveon Clowney bulldoze Vincent Smith or Troy Polamalu pick-six Joe Flacco to send the Steelers to Super Bowl XLIII. But those games didn't end as 9-6 in overtime. Those games had more offense than field goals. Still, I'm glad this game happened. This was what got everybody on board that the BCS needed to go. Nobody outside of Tuscaloosa wanted to see those two teams play again. I've looked at multiple lists of the greatest games in college football history, even just of the 2010s. What do they all have in common? "The game of the century" was nowhere to be found. It makes me glad that so far, the college football playoff has almost always delivered great title games (except for OSU-Oregon in 2014). There's still a lot of kinks to be ironed out, but at least we're going in the right direction.
The entire point of opening the playoff up to 4 teams is to try and get the best 4 teams. In 2011 Alabama and LSU were the 2 best teams by a significant margin. If there had been a playoff they would have probably played in the championship game any way. Alabama would have still been the champion in 2011 with or without a playoff!
For all intents and purposes, and by every logical metric, this isn’t a controversy. Alabama lost by 3 in OT to the #1 team. Okie St lost by 7 to a team that finished under .500. Alabama had a tougher schedule top to bottom that season as well.
The national championship game should NEVER be a game between 2 teams in the SAME conference and the SAME SIDE of that conference. Hence why we changed that ruling as soon as we did to the playoffs. Cause they knew they messed up.
If ou or Texas had the season we had that year there is no doubt in my mind that they would have been in the natty. Namesake killed us this year I have no doubt we were the better team
@@RadicallyOptimistic Alabama beat #23 Penn State in State College, #12 Florida in Gainesville and #14 Arkansas at home. They also beat Auburn, Ole Miss and Miss. State on the road and lost in OT to the consensus No. 1 team in the country LSU by 3. I don't think OSU's schedule was any better than Bama's. If there had been a playoff, Alabama still wins the title imo.
With the playoff i have become more acceptive of the fact Alabama got in but as the old saying goes "if u dont win ur conference u shouldn't go to the championship". -nick saban 2003
+dubvideos. You do realize the whole point of quotation marks is to denote something someone actually said, correct? That quote was debunked like 8 years ago, genius.
@@BobPapadopoulos "debunked?" as in, he didn't actually say that? I hope that's not what you're saying, because he said it right on camera. then again, Bama fans are experts at forgetting and/or nit-picking whatever is most convenient for them lol
Although the BCS had always been a flawed system, this year really exposed how flawed a system it was. What a boring, pointless national championship game. The only national championship game in the last 15 years I didn't watch live. Not saying Ok State or Stanford deserved to be put in above Alabama but the playoff system should've been implemented much earlier. It would've been awesome to watch LSU take on Ok State and Alabama take on Stanford. Instead we got treated to an SEC exhibition game.
@Bleed Orangeget 1st stop lieing. Oklahoma st played 4 ranked teams www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/oklahoma-state/2011-schedule.html the 5th was the damn bowl game it doesn't count when factoring this. 2nd Alabama beat 3 www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/alabama/2011-schedule.html Also lets factor in Arkansas was rank #3 at one point in the season so 1 2 3 was ALL SEC WEST teams and Alabama smacked them. So there was 1 ranked game difference, Alabama played a 4th one and lost by 3 in OT, Oklahoma St lost to Iowa St a unranked team in 2 OT. Oklahoma St game wasn't any more controversial than Alabama's lost but the quality of those losses was HUGE as one was perceived as the best team,
I think you should make a vid about the 2003 season. That year Oklahoma got to play in the Natty after getting blown out in the big 12 championship game to Kansas State.
That was arguably even worse than what happened with Bama in 2011. At least they barely lost to number one. Oklahoma got pummeled by a team ranked fairly lower than them and still got to play for the championship.
I'm a USC fan. I'm not one who says we are the real National Champs of 2003 or anything, but we deserved a chance against LSU. Oklahoma getting in was a joke.
@Dennis Williams thank you for that. I’m an LSU fan who knows USC deserved to play way more. Although your loss was in 3OT on the road, LSU’s was very good as well. (OU’s was terrible) 8-5 Florida lost to #15,#13,#11,#8,#5. Three of those by 5 or less, one by 14 and one by 20 in the bowl game. Which is nuts bc UF was 1 score away in 3 games from having wins over top ten UGA, LSU, FSU, and Miami. I digress, OU didn’t deserve to go in 2003 and ironically y’all spanked them in 2004 when Auburn should’ve played you. I doubt auburn wins but still you get what it’s like
That year I saw 2 elite defenses in LSU and Alabama. We saw in BCS Championship game who the best defense and team in country was. An elite defense will beat an elite offense any day
People also forget that Stanford, Boise St, and Houston also only had 1 loss. Then we had multiple 2 loss teams that were really good like Oregon, USC( on probation),Arkansas, Arkansas St, South Carolina, southern miss, TCU, Virginia tech, Wisconsin, and Kansas St end their regular season with only 2 losses. The more I reflect on the past seasons and the more I look at CFP today the more I realize that they should expand The CFP to 16 teams.
I will say this year would have been the PERFECT YEAR for a college playoff. Imagine #1 LSU vs. #4 Stanford and #2 Alabama vs. #3 Oklahoma. You would have offensive juggernauts matched up with defensive powerhouses. Would have made perfect sense that season.
2011 Bama and LSU was just about as close to watching an NFL game as it ever got. These were the last true dominant defenses that we might ever see in college football now that the spread/RPO has taken over.
This was an incredible video man, so many great memories......by God that first LSU-Bama game was the most "SEC" game of all time! #DefenseWinsChampionships. Kudos, thanks for making this!!
In 2011 I was 10 years old and rushed the field at Jack Trice Stadium with my father. 10 years later I rushed the field at 20 years old in my 3rd year as a a student at Iowa State. Thank you for the memories Oklahoma State :)
That’s a great story dude, I remember seeing the ISU upset when I was 8 on the tv, my immediate family and I were all hawk fans but were super happy for them. Little did Ik I’d be a freshman at ISU storming Jack trice in 2021. Here’s to a comeback season and more memories for Iowa state football!
@@Sean-jb5gi Let us put that into context yes? Bama lost to the number one team in the country by a field goal and limited them to 9 points. OSU choked away a 24-7 lead to an unranked ISU and lost in overtime. Also if I remember correctly, Arkansas had 10 wins and was #3 at one point.
They just value whatever is convenient for them per year to get the teams that they want in whether they deserve to be in or not. That's why the criteria is miraculously changing almost every single season
I agree. Oklahoma State had 5 wins over Top 25 teams that was ranked during the championship week in 2011 compared to Alabama’s 2. OK-State also had better quality wins than Bama.
@Bleed Orange yeah but 2 of those teams finished unranked. TAMU 7-6 and UT 8-5. I’ll agree y’all had better wins than Bama but LSU had one of the best resumes. Final AP poll LSU had wins over 1,4,5,17,19 3,13,24,26,32 points respectively. If we are just using ranked wins in total and not where they finished LSU beat 8 top 25 teams. 3,25,16,17,19,2,3,12 in that order. Bama beat 23,14,12,24 before playing LSU. Only one finished ranked in the final AP which was #5 Arkansas who only lost to LSU and Bama. It’s actually kind of eerie that LSU and Bama beat the same 6 SEC opponents by nearly the exact same score every time. Only a 9 point difference in total.
It doesn’t matter, Oklahoma was Unbeatable that season, Oklahoma would’ve probably put a stomping against another opponent, but Florida State was able to keep it close and still lost...
You're crazy if you think that Oklahoma team had the speed or talent to hang with that Miami team especially with the game being played in Miami. Players on that Oklahoma team admitted that they preferred to play FSU to Miami and anyways it's about the controversy the very first BCS controversy
Tyrann Mathieu was the single most dominant player I’ve ever seen. I include Joe Burrow in that conversation, too. Joe was amazing, don’t get me wrong, but I’ve never seen an undersized corner be such a game changing force. He was mesmerizing to watch and probably would have won the Heisman if he wasn’t hanging out with Jordan Jefferson so much.
N4ARideRTR Plays yeah still forgetting a major university tragedy the night before. We had over double your top 25 and top 50 wins. Sorry buddy, yalls resume was trash
This video just added to my disappointment from Trey Richardson and Justin Blackmon. They lit up my TV when they were in college, but they just became mere afterthoughts in the NFL.
Yes you did... What else to prove for LSU. We beat them at there place, won our division, won SEC and looks who standing there. Forget defense and stats. It's like bama, is we want a do over! wtf ?what did you do to deserve it.you didn't win or do anything to deserve a second Chance ! #buckfama2018inBR
When you lose to a 6-7 Iowa State team for which you were nearly a FIVE TOUCHDOWN favorite, you have no business playing for a National Championship. PERIOD!!! The committee got it right and put the two best teams in the title game.
I am just going to leave this here... Oklahoma State and Stanford held their own destiny in their hand. They choked it away to a horrendous Iowa State team and to Oregon respectively. Alabama was clearly the best one lose team in the country.
Oh, that's a bunch of hogwash. For one thing, Oklahoma State played a far tougher road schedule than Alabama. The Cowboys played three "true" top 25 (by Simple Rating System) teams: A&M, Texas, and Missouri. Oklahoma State beat all 3. Alabama played ZERO "true" top 25 (SRS) teams on the road. The Cowboys also showed an ability to overcome adversity and dominate; against A&M they were down 20-3 at the half but outscored the Aggies 27-9 in the second half and 2 of those points were a safety Okie State gave up willingly in the final seconds. To put that in perspective, in the last FIFTY YEARS, only 5 national champs have played a road schedule as tough or tougher than 2011 Oklahoma State. That is, only 5 national champs have played 3 or more "true" top 25 teams on the road: 1982 Penn State (lost one), 1986 Penn State, 1988 Notre Dame, 1991 Washington, and 2001 Miami. So that includes 2 teams considered among the "greatest ever" and one that lost a game. Point being that tough road schedules are no joke. They're really hard and generally proof of a very good team if the team goes through them well. Alabama had their destiny in their hands, at home against LSU, and choked. Alabama also got luck on the road; down 3-0 early against Penn State (an average team at best) they went for a fake punt in their own territory, got stuffed badly, but got a ridiculous bailout first down spot from the refs. Alabama was able to gain the momentum after that. Oklahoma State got no such luck on the road. Iowa State went 6-6 in the regular season, by the way, which is far from "horrendous." On average, and especially on the road, Alabama played a weaker schedule than Okie State but SEC homerism carried the day and gave Saban a fake national title.
@@aaronrider4051 Lol just stop, your SEC/Alabama hatred is showing in full colors... Alabama finished the season with a top 15 SoS so stop acting like they did not play anyone. As far as the Penn St. game, I believe that Penn St. got a FG and then didn't score again until the 4th lol so saying "they were able to gain momentum after a bad ball spot" in the 1st quarter further shows your naivete. A loss to a 6-6 Iowa State team who barely beat an FCS team was much worse than by the #1 team by 3 points. SoS is not the end all be all when it comes to ranking teams. The 2011 Alabama team is regarded as one of the greatest football teams of all time especially when you look on the defensive side of the ball. It is even more impressive if you look back now and see how many of them went on to have NFL careers. Point remains the same, Ok state wins and they are in but the game that they lost was to a bad 6-6 team and that is what kept them out of the championship. 45 players from the Alabama - LSU game went on to play in the NFL (to put that in perspective only one other championship game in the history of college football has had more NFL talent on the field, the Ohio State/Miami game in 2003) so guess what? Despite your animosity towards the SEC it looks like the two best teams in college football did in fact play each other for the national championship...
@@Defiantllama14 Okay, first of all, using "NFL players" as a metric for grading the strength of a team is MORONIC. Otherwise we'd have to pretend a team like 2004 Penn State (loaded with great talent on defense but went 4-7) was a "great" team. Don't waste our time with that absolute crap. But, for the record, it isn't exactly like Justin Blackmon wasn't one of the finest college receivers you could ever see. Secondly, who the crap regards 2011 Alabama as one of the greatest teams ever? Not even for an iota of a second does that Alabama team belong in the same discussion as 1971 Nebraska, 1972 USC, 1991 Washington, or 2001 Miami. Thirdly, Michigan lost to Ohio State in 2006, just like Alabama lost to LSU. And that loss by Michigan was better than Florida's regular season loss. But I don't hear any of you SEC homers noticing the fact that it was wildly hypocritical to give Alabama a title shot if Michigan did not get one (note: I don't think Michigan deserved one). I also love how SEC homers trumpet SEC superiority then say things like you just said, about how SoS isn't the only thing that matters. What an absolutely idiotic thing to say. If you have two 11-1 teams, how else are you supposed to evaluate them than by how they played against their schedules? You want to keep avoiding the fact that Oklahoma State was better against a better schedule (Alabama did NOTHING as good as blowing out Oklahoma or Baylor like Okie State did). Good for you. Go waste your own time. And, finally, as for the Penn State game, if Penn State had been given the ball in Alabama territory in the spot in question, they put a lot more pressure on the Alabama offense which, with the bad call and ensuing TD, was able to play to its liking. On the road, that sort of thing is a big deal.
My god... were people really debating whether OSU, who lost to an unranked ISU team, should get in over Bama, whose only loss came in a tossup with the other best team in the country??
I think that it’s because he’s getting older. 2020 is the worst for him. He’s slurring, hazy and struggling. Unfortunately I think he had another stroke. We probably won’t be seeing him come back to game day soon.
This was probably the reason the playoff started. I still believe that Alabama and LSU were the top 2 teams in the country that year though. Guess a lot of the problem was that they had already played in the regular season. Kind of off topic but as a Penn State fan I think that 2008 USC got snubbed after watching them beat us the way they did in the Rose Bowl. I still can't figure out why that team was only ranked 5th. Glad we have a playoff now to sort things out a bit more.. would like to see it expanded to 8 teams though
@@ChrisSizzly Pretty simple: divisions aren't always equal, nor are conferences. Do you honestly think the #1 Sun Belt team would beat the #2 SEC team?
@@BobPapadopoulos The Sun Belt conference isn’t a power 5 conference is it? Clearly you’re splitting hairs, of course all to justify the CFP or BCS putting multiple teams from the same conference to play for it all when only one of them actually won the conference. No body is buying that argument, you brain dead Bama bandwagoner.
This is why we have the playoffs now. This would’ve been a great one in 2011 with two great defensive schools and 2 great offensive schools in one tournament!
To this day, I will always hold Meyer’s and Saban’s word, if you don’t win your conference, you don’t deserve a chance for the National Championship, Period. Alabama twice now, Ohio State got a playoff. Oklahoma got it in 2003 and even my team Nebraska in 2001. Sorry but we understand it, you must win your conference to have a shot to win the National Title, period end of discussion
This popped up on my feed today for some reason. Brings back memories of how OSU got screwed out of what will likely be their only chance at a national title. The only people who wanted a Bama, LSU rematch were Bama and LSU fans. A few SEC fans but not many. The rest of the US wanted either LSU, OSU or LSU, Stanford. Bama had no business being in the NT game just like they have no business being in the playoffs this year lol. And just because I know someone will comment. I'm not an OSU, or Stanford fan.
No no no no no nooooooooo LSU fans were BEEEGGING for OKST We wanted no part of Bama round 2 and for obvious reasons. OKST team offense ranking -2 OKST team defense ranking -61 LSU team offense ranking -17 LSU team defense ranking -2 LSU held the #3 offense in Oregon to 27 (gave up a TD with :13 seconds left as well) LSU held the #13 offense (WVU) to 21. LSU held the #15 offense (Arkansas) to 17. LSU held the #20 offense (Bama) to 6 and 21. These are all well below their average PPG. Everybody thinks LSU played nothing but shit offenses but we played 4 in the top 25. OKST played 5 offenses ranked in the top 25. The best defense OKST played was 30 while LSU had played 5 in the top 25. OKST wasn’t a bad team but we desperately wanted to play you bc Alabama was that good. Although plenty of other teams were “that good” and never got a shot too so.... Sorry didn’t see youre not a fan of them ignore the “you” and “yalls” in my rant. I am too bored right now but for LSU fans we def didn’t want Bama. We were just as butthurt as anyone else bc for three years one game cost us a national title/ chance for playing in one. 7 point loss to auburn in 2010, 2011 NC, and 4 point loss to Bama in 2012.
The one question nobody asked during all of this: what's fair? The only team a rematch favored was Alabama. They played one less game than LSU, lost at home with two weeks to prepare, and gave up over 300 rushing yards to Georgia Southern. Nobody asked if the rematch was fair to LSU or if it was fair to deny Oklahoma State a shot at the Tigers. Bama had their shot at home and blew it with poor coaching decisions by Saban who put his kicker in a position to miss four field goals. It was all to serve ESPN's agenda to create a playoff system we didn't need.
James Vineyard Nah it was needed,Ohio State was in the NC multiple times in the BCS Era,and in 03 there was controversy bc many ppl thought Oklahoma shouldn't have been in the NC after they lost the Big 12 championship to Kansas State.So yeah it was needed bad,but they should have atleast made it an 8 team playoff system.1-4,2-6,3-8,5-7 teams play in the quarterfinals,semi then the national championship.
This wasn't a controversy. Alabama lost to the the #1 team in the country by 3 points after not giving up a TD. OSU lost to unranked Iowa St. Alabama won also after not letting LSU cross the 50 till the 4th Quarter. I'd say they picked the right teams.
@@mauriceboykin4422 Alabama has beaten at least five ranked teams every year since 2008 with the exception of 2013. Try doing your research before making statements like that.
Maurice Boykin do you understand how hard it is for Alabama to get people to play them. Nobody wants to play bama just like no one wants to play Clemson. Everyone already knows the results
I think we're all forgetting that OSU lost after a plane crash killed 2 OSU coaches, which may have affected the other coaches, but resumes speak for themselves. As an OSU fan I understand why, but still don't like it.
Disagreed. While the atmosphere around campus was probably fairly somber for a little bit after the tragedy, it had zero bearing on them pissing away a lead to a team like Iowa State that they should have beat. I doubt a single one of them thought about the tragedy during the game, especially when things were getting close later on, seeing as the deceased were women's basketball coaches and not football coaches. They pissed away their chance to play for a NC and that's all there is to it, shit happens. Even their destruction of OU in the regular season finale was too little, too late given the opponent their loss was to compared to Alabama's. FYI, I say all this as a fan of none of the teams in this conversation - LSU, OSU, Alabama, or ISU - and by no means am I sullying the dead as what happened was indeed a tragedy, but it played zero part whatsoever in OSU losing that game, plain and simple.
+Brandon It doesn't matter that the deceased weren't football coaches. Those kids knew who they were. Plus, this is not the only plane crash tragedy to strike OSU. How do you know they weren't thinking of their own flight return to campus in the back of their minds? Maybe it had no conscious impact, but it's extremely naive and unlikely that it had none at all.
By what criteria? The BCS was always #1 vs #2, even back when Florida replayed FSU. There was never any rule or stipulation that the game couldn't be a rematch.
Great video and I will forever say that no matter how many times people want to talk about that 2011 college football season in the end a 4 team playoff would have been fair and reasonable.
That was a crazy and fun season! My USC Trojans were a non factor, so I just got to sit back and watch the craziness without having a dog in the fight. The build up was great, but the best game was Stanford/OSU. The title game ended up being such a disappointment. A team who didn't even win their subdivision of their conference getting gifted in to the last game. Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of admiration for Bama, and they obviously did the job. I had no doubt they COULD win, I just don't think they should have been in the game. And then on top of that, LSU didn't even compete in that game. This game was like thinking you were going out for a great steak dinner and getting a Wendy's cheeseburger instead.
How they don’t deserve to be in the game when they won the game you make no sense. I could see why you say that if they were to get blown out or something.
@@meowmeow7900 The crash and loss of life were indeed tragic and painful. Still Okla St. ran out to a 3-score lead in the second half. The Pokes were obviously focused on the game but somehow collapsed against a team they should have beaten handily.
@@robotunes I don't mean to indicate the reason they lost was the tragedy, just that it was not just some we showed up normally type of loss. It was a trap game if there ever was one. An away game on a Friday night, short week, with other drama going on an opponent you can take for granted and worry more about future issues as opposed to the current situation.
I feel like this was the season that really got them thinking yeah we need this playoff...because this 2011 season really exposed the flaws in the BCS no way Alabama should have been in the champion game winning the national champion but not winning there conference champion wait didn't even play in that game and I love both teams but it's hard beating a team twice especially after they basically had a bye week to prepare
Many LSU fans saw what was coming when we had that Bama rematch in the BCS. Les Miles was never known for changing game plans, doing *anything* “on the fly”, or...well... most things...great recruiter though! Ahem, anyway I always have felt deep down that Bama and LSU were generally the best teams in the nation, to be fair a sentiment I don’t believe I share alone. However, the fact is that once Alabama lost to LSU at home, I just think it should have eliminated them from contention seeing as LSU was the Championship opponent. I don’t care how close it was, nor do I care how a kicker made the difference. LSU beat Alabama. LSU should have played the third ranked team in this instance. The BCS did not put emphasis on head-to-head. Ok State was screwed out of a Championship opportunity. Just my opinion. I generally hate the concept of rematches in college football.
As an FSU fan, we've been bit by rematches before. Beat a great UF team in 1996 and lost to them in the Sugar Bowl. How is it remotely fair that the team that wins the first game is punished by having to play the same great team again and whoever wins last game is the one that gets the glory? FSU had to play that team twice in a row. It makes no sense. FSU and UF also played twice in a row in 1994/95 (UF had the SECCG between each, but no ACCCG for FSU) but the Sugar Bowl was more of an impromptu OT game when the regular season game was tied on the field. That's not how CFB should work and it happened again in the 2021/22 CFP: Bama had to play the same UGA team they beat just a few weeks prior. Absolute BS. IMO, LSU, Alabama, and Oklahoma State can all claim the 2011 title.
Coaches: Alabama lost to LSU, a ranked team but Oklahoma State lost to the unranked team. Put Alabama in the title game! OKST fans: *visible frustration*
What should I do for my next video?
CFBin30 do the Penn State and USC story of getting to the rose bowl last year
USC from 2003-2006
Michigan and Ohio State in 2006 and the lead up to the game.
The 2001 bcs controversy
Penn State revival after the scandal and punishments and what not
We'll never know what would have happened. Bama and LSU both had dominant defenses. Oklahoma State and Stanford had dominant offenses. Would have been a perfect year for a 4 team playoff.
Exactly.
Bryce Morrison
Stanford's defense were not chumps .. yea they have gave up a boat load of points to OKST but OKST's offense was all time great.
Bryce Morrison while that would have been great to see, I still maintain my opinion that no one in the country could beat Alabama or LSU that year besides each other.
You're probably right, but like I said...we will never really know. Fun to speculate, I guess.
Clarke Jones Exactly. If OKIE ST would have played either team they would have got beaten.
It's crazy to think that Iowa State is one of the main reasons the CFB playoff exists. Coming from an ISU fan, we're normally terrible.
Nick Hoffman Welcome to the future where ISU just scored 72 points and is looking good
@@bencarlson4300 3-2
They just had something tragic happen before they played iowa state. I dont like Oklahoma state but their heads weren't in the iowa state game
Nick Hoffman as an alabama fan thank you so much
@@rayh.8222 Honestly that is just a dumb excuse, I get it it was very tragic, but you can't blame a loss on it. A loss is a loss. It wasn't like Iowa state was dominating the game the whole game we actually came back. It was 24-7 at one point in the 3rd quarter.
Oklahoma St losing to Iowa St was probably one of the biggest upsets of all time cuz all they had to do was win that agne
No Kansas state and Baylor 2012
Appalachian State over Michigan still pretty #1 tho
And because of that double overtime loss, LSU had to play Alabama again. You don't want to play Nick Saban twice and Les Miles was complacent. But I have some confidence that LSU would have beaten Oklahoma State since they beat either 4 or 5 of the top 10 teams in the country. And if they had done that, they would be considered the greatest team of all time. But thanks to BCS computations and the freak Oklahoma State loss, LSU went slowly but surely downhill from that loss to Alabama until they beat them last Saturday!
@@RadicallyOptimistic nobody gave Alabama that championship. They earned it on the field and went on to win the national championship in decisive fashion.
@@RadicallyOptimistic There was never a rule that said the title game couldn't be a rematch. BCS #1 vs #2, and nobody but a chump would put a team with a loss to unranked ISU in either spot.
This and 2007 are the two glaring reasons why the playoff exists today.
What? Why? The BCS got it right both years. Those were huge successes for the BCS. Why not a year like 2004 when the BCS was actually wrong?
poopisnotpoop Oh yes 2004. So make it three reasons then!
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poopisnotpoop so true
2013 was great because we finally got a thrilling title game instead of another Bama blowout. Then again, I'm not a Bama fan, so that's just me.
FWIW this BCS is the reason we have a playoff now which is what everyone wanted. It woulda have been a great playoff with BAMA, LSU, Okie State and Stanford.
bammybound Now if only they can make the step to actual playoffs like every other level of football. Bama would have still been an at-large which I wouldn't have seen an issue with.
This season and the 2007 season
That would have been the best playoff ever, Jarvis Landry and OBJ, AJ McCarron and Trent Richardson, Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon, and Andrew Luck and Zach Ertz. That just sounds amazing.
The BCS had multiple controversies over the years such as 2003, 2004, 2007, and 2011 as notable examples, but 2011 was definitely the final straw and the immediate cause.
I liked the bcs because it was a challenge to get to a bowl game but now 6-6 north Texas can play 7-5 Louisiana tech in the cactus bowl
LSU's defense did all they could in that title game, the fact that LSU lost 21-0 is not a knock on the defense cause they were on the field All Night Long
Ryan Cook yup if we had any sort of offense we would've be beat bama
rnbrip1 facts
Peyton Overall Bama put up 21 against the supposed best defense in college football but the by far best offense in college football would’ve been shut down somehow. Lol
@@SpaceGhost92 Yes because LSU would have been able to run the ball on Oklahoma State which time of possession would have been in LSU's favor. Bama had a dominant defense which kept their offense on the field. BAMA had the ball for 37 minutes of the game. LSUs defense was in bad field position all game because the offense couldnt pass midfield. LSU would have moved the ball on OK STate IMO.
All FGs until a final TD too. Blame Les Miles starting Jefferson over the hot handed Lee. He didn't game plan at all. Cost us the bowl game AND cost us being one if the best college teams in history
This was when it became clear that a playoff needed to happen
Bay is Bae and two bcs teams made it again
Gundy called it
Wait aren’t these 2 teams from the same conference, SEC?
@@khughes1997 when the playoff system was started I figured something bigger then 4 teams because there have been undefeated conference championship teams who never got a spot I know those teams are group of 5 teams and little league teams but still
If you lose to a nobody you can’t expect to play a somebody.
The actual computer system had OK state 2nd. why even have the bcs if the other polls matter more
Because, dumbass, lots of #2 teams in the human polls got snubbed in the final game. Kansas State snubbed and #4 Nebraska getting into the BCS championship games were jokes. OU and Nebraska got in when they didn't even win their conference.
They tweaked the computer rankings nearly every year. I don't think any poll was more powerful than another: they were all equal parts.
The BCS system took into account the two polls and the computer rankings to make the BCS rankings. So, all three were used to make the final BCS rankings. Bama was #2 in 2 out of 3 and OK State was #2 in 1 out of 3, so that put Bama as #2. Bama smoked LSU so it was't a bad choice to put them in. Would OK State beat LSU, we will never know.
encycl07pedia I agree with you but wow, what a hostile way to lead off a reply to a comment that’s two years old...
Most dominant year for the SEC. LSU was 1, bama was 2, Arkansas was 3. Top 3 teams all from the sec west. Unreal
Hoggybones and the funny thing was LSU and Alabama were a distant one and two. No one else in the SEC held a candle to them that year.
Arkansas wasn't #3. They ended #5. Oklahoma State ended up #3 and Oregon #4.
Bryce Morrison yes i know but after Oklahoma state lost to Iowa state Arkansas moved up to number 3 for week 12 against number 1 LSU. Look up that game.
In the last week of the regular season, LSU were #1, Alabama were #2, and Arkansas were #3. When ranked #3, Arkansas suffered a pretty convincing defeat at the hands of the Geaux-Tigers.
Kizito, 2014, really?
That kinda worked out against the SEC as a down year, how do you figure? They suffered a few end game bowl defeats that made people question the SEC, not to even add the Alabama loss to tOSU in the first playoff (2014).
Strongest SEC years, 2007-2011. Some really strong times since then, but I don't think it has ever recaptured that magic, not fully.
wtf was les miles thinking with that qb! thats probably THE worst qb on a #1 ranked team ive ever seen! dude panicks easy, very indecisive, has shit for instincts. i want to say he was single handedly responsible for LSU's loss in the championship game.
Blackshirt- D he wasn’t their original starter the original starter got into trouble with the team so he started this game
@@braedenbrown2138 Who was the original starter? And didn't Jefferson beat them the year before in 2010 in Baton Rouge? I know LSU won in 2010.. I just can't remember the QB.
NostalgiaMan it was jarret lee
J Lee didn't get into trouble with the team. You've no clue. Miles is an idiot
@@spidaman0112 Yeah Lee started because of how bad he struggled the first time. Which is extremely dumb give the man a chance. He got us to an undefeated season he deserved the chance to lose.
LSU: I bet I’ll win by only field goals.
Alabama: Hold my beer
Everyone forgets how dominant the SEC West was that year. Arkansas of all teams went 11-2. They got destroyed by both LSU and Bama. But then again, they ran roughshod against every other team they went up against. I believe the razorbacks kept Alabama in the title game due to the credibility that the Hogs had.
xCHUBBYMUFFINx
Any team that doesn’t win their OWN conference has NO business playing for a National Title, Ohio State was one of those teams last year, Penn State won the Big 10, yet Ohio State gets in the playoffs??
Oklahoma State deserved to play for a National Title that season, you can say how dominant the SEC was, but we’ll never know if another team was better...
@chubbymuffin ok state only won their confrsnce cause they didnt have championship game and they lost to an unranked team that should've took them to #5
@@RadicallyOptimistic beating LSU 21-0 isnt luck. We proved that we deserved to be there that night
@@Acts-ms6vr Any team that loses to an unranked team in week 11 has no business being in a national championship game.
Arkansas had several good years. Just because they turned to crap after 2011 or 2012 doesn't mean they weren't good before that.
I'm so glad they added a playoff
JBoom222 same thing happend again so what's it matter the BCS was better RDT RDT RDT RDT
4 playoffs Bama has won 2 of them nothing has changed
bama gets favored cause they never give enough of a reason to not be favored. whether or not you think they should've been put into the playoff the first 4 years they proved they belonged in the top 4 every year (even 2014). In 2014 by barely losing to the eventual champion, in 2015 by routing #3 and beating #1, in 2016 by whooping #4 and barely losing to #2 on a pair of missed OPI calls, and in 2017 by whooping #1 and rallying to defeat #3.
None of y'all would argue that OSU in 2014, MSU and Clemson in 2015, Washington and Clemson in 2016, and Clemson and Georgia in 2017 didn't deserve to be there. So how'd they all either lose or have to fight with everything they had to barely win if Alabama was so overrated every year?
PirateOfPlayTime i love how nobody has typed you back lol you put em on hush mode
And people don't like it. Nothing will satisfy fans and media
Man, time is just flying. I can't believe this was 6 years ago. Great times!
An entire decade now.
I was unfortunate or fortunate enough to be in the OSU band that went up to Ames. Probably the 2nd coldest football game I've ever been to; that including the ISU fans bumping my shoulder as they rush the field. The coldest game of football I've ever attended was the next game after vs. OU; though it was our turn to rush the field, finding out it was all for nothing made it that much colder.
What about the year Boise State went undefeated and finished 3rd behind two teams with a loss
You have to join a p5 conference to be taken seriously
Josh Hough they ain't in a big div
It’s because they played not very high rank teams to when the teams that got rank 2 and 1 probably played a lot of top ten and five teams
And tcu went undefeated won the rose bowl finished 2nd but wasnt given a chance to be in natty game
@@thunderzking0342 tcu wasn't in the natty because there was 2 undefeated power 5 teams in front of them. Any other year tcu would have been in because usually there was a team with a loss in the natty but unfortunately for tcu that year, oregon and Auburn were both undefeated.
This year was honestly what made everyone agree that we needed a playoff system
28:23 that is by far the worst play I’ve ever seen in my life.
I saw the timestamp and thought you were making a 28-3 joke
Killiaka Kinnet Lmao. I try not to think of 28-3.
Uh you're correct
Who else remembers Justin Blackmon?
I do
@Bill Blass James Washington
@Bill Blass you right my dude I hope he does good
Bill Blass Dez did good in the NFL what are you talking about
Blackmon got screwed by the NFLs rules
2019 was the happiest year of my life as an LSU fan! But 2011 still hurts!
2019 was probably the best team of ALL TIME. As a Bama fan, it still irks me that we lost to LSU by only 5 points that year. We should have won if Tua hadn't fumbled away that first touchdown, I think that game would have been different. Either way, LSU deserved that title in 2019 and the moniker of "One of the best teams EVER." LSU had talent coming out of their ears in 2019. I do miss coach "O" on the sidelines. He was the PERFECT coach for LSU. Bayou boy that knew what LSU meant to his state.
i'm a big fan of college football in general and this was an absolute great watch! keep up the great work!
JEFF FUCKING WOODY! Look how the camera shakes during the Iowa State game. Ames knows how to get loud.
Great video man I had forgot so much about that season, had no idea about the plane crash right before OSU Iowa state. That’s crazy and that field goal looked pretty good. Such an interesting story
i'll never forget watching that oklahoma state iowa state game on a friday night
1 of Tha roughest nights of my life
My first college football season, been a lsu fan ever since
No mention of LSU, Alabama, and Arkansas being in top three. The accomplishment is insane for the SEC. Would love to see a video about SEC dominance from 2005-2015. Insane to see each team have great success here or there.
You should shorten that to 2013, go noles!
@@D.F.P. Having a flash in the pan year doesn't make you dominant. Didn't you guys lose to Georgia Tech the very next year?
Uhhhhhhhhh
We still made the playoff
Why do you southerners have so much pride in your whole conference lol,
I’m an Ohio state fan and I hate everyone else in mine lol, do y’all forget y’all are rivals with one another?
This season was the last straw for the BCS. I personally think Alabama and LSU were the best teams, but Oklahoma State definitely should've had a shot to win it all.
Joey OSU beat a ranked OU and bama played a high school team last game of the season. It was done because of the money. Lau bama would draw in more money vs Lsu osu. It was rigged that year and OSU got hosed.
Joey then don’t lose to a unranked Iowa state
@Bleed Orange LSU was #1, ISU only got to a bowl game because they beat OSU. That's the difference, and Bama proved they were a better team when they beat LSU 21-0.
Dallan Richey look at the body of work? Bama fans are so ignorant to all the facts. Ok State played a harder schedule and beat way more ranked teams
Jared Glass and also blew it in their last game
Im an LSU fan, an thinking of this season.. Iowa State kinda took our national title away. Saban wasnt gonna lose 2 games to the same team in the same season, and that was shown in the 21-0 "blowout" great video that was such a crazy season. Could be a 30/30 for espn IMO. Nice vid.
Definitely. Iowa State assured that our 2011 team wouldn't be up there with 1995 Nebraska and 2001 Miami, just like Motiejunas' back sweat assured that the 2016 Warriors wouldn't be up there with the 1996 Bulls.
Ya this would be a great 30/30
Don't blame us because you couldn't beat bama twice
The difference between 2011 and 2016 was that Ohio State was the best team in their conference, even if they didn't win the conference title. Alabama not only wasn't the best team in their conference, but they lost the head-to-head to LSU, the best team in the conference. Them being given a second chance was the biggest unfair advantage in sports history.
OSU never played florida.... so yeah. and the SEC had no teams other than Alabama who could challenge them. it was weak. I never said Bama was garbage I just thought that those two teams played a bunch of high school teams in the regular season and were granted, by royalty, the NCG
This would have been a fun year for a playoff. I would have loved to have seen Andrew Luck-led Stanford taking on LSU or Alabama
As a sooner fan I had Vietnam flashbacks to that 2011 season. Such a great team that OSU had
Asks the OSU coach if he’s curious about the other game “no, what was the score?”😂
This season alone is the reason why we have a College Football Playoffs.
To avoid stuff like this. Oklahoma State fucked themselves over and Standford got screwed by the computers
ChampGold u mean Stanford fucked themselves over and OK State got screwed
Probably correct but the results would have been the same, Alabama would have been in the playoff and would have still won the title.
@@UtopiaJoeee Got screwed? They lost to an unranked Iowa State and cried about losing a women's coach in a plane crash... while Tuscaloosa was rebuilding after a damn tornado all year.
@@UtopiaJoeee They lost to a team they were favored by 30+ points. How is that getting screwed? lol
Stanford*
That year will always be one of the biggest what ifs in college football history. LSU had a GREAT defense. OSU had a GREAT offense with an opportunistic defense. I think the game wouldve been one of the most exciting national championship games in history. Blackmon couldnt be covered by anyone in college that year. I'll always look back at that year and feel a sense of sadness because had ou done what osu did, theres absolutely no question OU wouldve been in the natty. Having said that, that year propelled OSU into the national scene and they're still benefitting from it today
Levi Lively dude it’s so annoying how hard they suck ou’s peen just because of tradition. And your right Justin was amazing that season
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I remember watching "the game of the century" with my family. We were all bored out of our minds. We really didn't care that it was number one vs number two, I don't care how many future NFL players this game had, and it's kind of hard to care at all when this game was ultimately pointless. Iowa State's upset of Oklahoma State essentially made the outcome of this game mean nothing. And to those of you who are probably tempted to say "go watch the Big 12 if you don't like defense," I do enjoy defense. I will never tire of seeing Jadeveon Clowney bulldoze Vincent Smith or Troy Polamalu pick-six Joe Flacco to send the Steelers to Super Bowl XLIII. But those games didn't end as 9-6 in overtime. Those games had more offense than field goals.
Still, I'm glad this game happened. This was what got everybody on board that the BCS needed to go. Nobody outside of Tuscaloosa wanted to see those two teams play again. I've looked at multiple lists of the greatest games in college football history, even just of the 2010s. What do they all have in common? "The game of the century" was nowhere to be found. It makes me glad that so far, the college football playoff has almost always delivered great title games (except for OSU-Oregon in 2014). There's still a lot of kinks to be ironed out, but at least we're going in the right direction.
The entire point of opening the playoff up to 4 teams is to try and get the best 4 teams. In 2011 Alabama and LSU were the 2 best teams by a significant margin. If there had been a playoff they would have probably played in the championship game any way. Alabama would have still been the champion in 2011 with or without a playoff!
And Alabama is still dominating ROLL TIDE ROLL
Alabama was better than Oklahoma state that it doesn’t matter what the people want the best 2 teams should be in the championship and they were
Les: I would be honored to face that team again.
Les: Fuck...
This is such a great video. Would love to see you make more of this!
For all intents and purposes, and by every logical metric, this isn’t a controversy.
Alabama lost by 3 in OT to the #1 team.
Okie St lost by 7 to a team that finished under .500.
Alabama had a tougher schedule top to bottom that season as well.
The national championship game should NEVER be a game between 2 teams in the SAME conference and the SAME SIDE of that conference. Hence why we changed that ruling as soon as we did to the playoffs. Cause they knew they messed up.
The funny thing is, it happened in 2006 with Ohio State & Michigan but yet they forgot all about that.
Diesel Kidd Ohio State and Michigan didn't rematch that year.
Ryan Cook The sec guys said a rematch was ridiculous then. Lol
Dylan Smith Right! 🙄
What are you gonna do when this year auburn and bama are there?
As an oklahoma state fan
Im still mad, can confirm
If ou or Texas had the season we had that year there is no doubt in my mind that they would have been in the natty. Namesake killed us this year I have no doubt we were the better team
@@RadicallyOptimistic Alabama beat #23 Penn State in State College, #12 Florida in Gainesville and #14 Arkansas at home. They also beat Auburn, Ole Miss and Miss. State on the road and lost in OT to the consensus No. 1 team in the country LSU by 3. I don't think OSU's schedule was any better than Bama's. If there had been a playoff, Alabama still wins the title imo.
With the playoff i have become more acceptive of the fact Alabama got in but as the old saying goes "if u dont win ur conference u shouldn't go to the championship". -nick saban 2003
If you look at it Alabama should have played Georgia and then been in the playoff, UCF would be the 4th team in, they messed up last year.
Ohio State Sucks. Just remember that.
@Israel Kelley as an Ohio State fan in 2014 they made the right choice.... 2016 that's a little more questionable...
+dubvideos. You do realize the whole point of quotation marks is to denote something someone actually said, correct? That quote was debunked like 8 years ago, genius.
@@BobPapadopoulos "debunked?" as in, he didn't actually say that? I hope that's not what you're saying, because he said it right on camera. then again, Bama fans are experts at forgetting and/or nit-picking whatever is most convenient for them lol
Although the BCS had always been a flawed system, this year really exposed how flawed a system it was. What a boring, pointless national championship game. The only national championship game in the last 15 years I didn't watch live. Not saying Ok State or Stanford deserved to be put in above Alabama but the playoff system should've been implemented much earlier. It would've been awesome to watch LSU take on Ok State and Alabama take on Stanford. Instead we got treated to an SEC exhibition game.
Evan Combs the playoff is even worse
@Bleed Orangeget 1st stop lieing. Oklahoma st played 4 ranked teams www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/oklahoma-state/2011-schedule.html the 5th was the damn bowl game it doesn't count when factoring this. 2nd Alabama beat 3 www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/alabama/2011-schedule.html Also lets factor in Arkansas was rank #3 at one point in the season so 1 2 3 was ALL SEC WEST teams and Alabama smacked them. So there was 1 ranked game difference, Alabama played a 4th one and lost by 3 in OT, Oklahoma St lost to Iowa St a unranked team in 2 OT. Oklahoma St game wasn't any more controversial than Alabama's lost but the quality of those losses was HUGE as one was perceived as the best team,
I really think the committee should have put OSU as #2
LSU would have won
Kuntry Vlogs committee
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Kuntry Vlogs the BCS a rankings were determined by computers
ivan reid it was a collection of polls and computers, that’s why media played a part. Ok State was #2 in the computers.
I think you should make a vid about the 2003 season. That year Oklahoma got to play in the Natty after getting blown out in the big 12 championship game to Kansas State.
That was arguably even worse than what happened with Bama in 2011. At least they barely lost to number one. Oklahoma got pummeled by a team ranked fairly lower than them and still got to play for the championship.
The NC game should have been LSU vs USC that year.
I'm a USC fan. I'm not one who says we are the real National Champs of 2003 or anything, but we deserved a chance against LSU. Oklahoma getting in was a joke.
@Dennis Williams thank you for that. I’m an LSU fan who knows USC deserved to play way more. Although your loss was in 3OT on the road, LSU’s was very good as well. (OU’s was terrible) 8-5 Florida lost to #15,#13,#11,#8,#5. Three of those by 5 or less, one by 14 and one by 20 in the bowl game. Which is nuts bc UF was 1 score away in 3 games from having wins over top ten UGA, LSU, FSU, and Miami.
I digress, OU didn’t deserve to go in 2003 and ironically y’all spanked them in 2004 when Auburn should’ve played you. I doubt auburn wins but still you get what it’s like
That year I saw 2 elite defenses in LSU and Alabama. We saw in BCS Championship game who the best defense and team in country was. An elite defense will beat an elite offense any day
Field goal kicking was brutal this year
People also forget that Stanford, Boise St, and Houston also only had 1 loss. Then we had multiple 2 loss teams that were really good like Oregon, USC( on probation),Arkansas, Arkansas St, South Carolina, southern miss, TCU, Virginia tech, Wisconsin, and Kansas St end their regular season with only 2 losses. The more I reflect on the past seasons and the more I look at CFP today the more I realize that they should expand The CFP to 16 teams.
And ever since then bama hasn't looked back
Damn I felt that when he said we need a playoff
22:55 Damn he really just called that
I will say this year would have been the PERFECT YEAR for a college playoff. Imagine #1 LSU vs. #4 Stanford and #2 Alabama vs. #3 Oklahoma. You would have offensive juggernauts matched up with defensive powerhouses. Would have made perfect sense that season.
2011 Bama and LSU was just about as close to watching an NFL game as it ever got. These were the last true dominant defenses that we might ever see in college football now that the spread/RPO has taken over.
That season along with 2007 were the craziest seasons
Y is it always isu that makes a ton of noise against top ten teams
Either underestimation or sheer determination.
This was an incredible video man, so many great memories......by God that first LSU-Bama game was the most "SEC" game of all time! #DefenseWinsChampionships. Kudos, thanks for making this!!
In 2011 I was 10 years old and rushed the field at Jack Trice Stadium with my father. 10 years later I rushed the field at 20 years old in my 3rd year as a a student at Iowa State. Thank you for the memories Oklahoma State :)
both years that we were good too!
That’s a great story dude, I remember seeing the ISU upset when I was 8 on the tv, my immediate family and I were all hawk fans but were super happy for them. Little did Ik I’d be a freshman at ISU storming Jack trice in 2021. Here’s to a comeback season and more memories for Iowa state football!
i remember watching this when i was like 4 with my dad. one of my best isu memories
Also in 2011, I said if OU had Oklahoma States resume they would have been in and guess what in 2017 OU lost to Iowa State and they got in.
They got in because teams above them lost, which is the same reason Alabama got in in 2011
@@Senscion Bama beat 1 FBS 10 win team ALL SEASON and needed TWO tries to do it. LOL LOL
Oklahoma State beat FOUR FBS 10 win teams in FOUR tries.
@@Sean-jb5gi Let us put that into context yes? Bama lost to the number one team in the country by a field goal and limited them to 9 points. OSU choked away a 24-7 lead to an unranked ISU and lost in overtime. Also if I remember correctly, Arkansas had 10 wins and was #3 at one point.
Tell it!
I've never seen worse ridiculous kicking in history.
Everything that had to happen for Bama that year Happened. It was beautiful to watch all those games.
Iowa State has been paying for that loss for 6 years, and they’re still paying for it.
carto0ndude not really
What I don't get is that voters valued better losses over better wins
A Mo osu played in a shit big 12
They just value whatever is convenient for them per year to get the teams that they want in whether they deserve to be in or not. That's why the criteria is miraculously changing almost every single season
I agree. Oklahoma State had 5 wins over Top 25 teams that was ranked during the championship week in 2011 compared to Alabama’s 2. OK-State also had better quality wins than Bama.
@Bleed Orange yeah but 2 of those teams finished unranked. TAMU 7-6 and UT 8-5. I’ll agree y’all had better wins than Bama but LSU had one of the best resumes. Final AP poll LSU had wins over 1,4,5,17,19
3,13,24,26,32 points respectively.
If we are just using ranked wins in total and not where they finished LSU beat 8 top 25 teams.
3,25,16,17,19,2,3,12 in that order.
Bama beat 23,14,12,24 before playing LSU. Only one finished ranked in the final AP which was #5 Arkansas who only lost to LSU and Bama. It’s actually kind of eerie that LSU and Bama beat the same 6 SEC opponents by nearly the exact same score every time. Only a 9 point difference in total.
@@INoticeTooMuch1 finally someone who does their faq checks
Can y'all do a video about the 2000 bcs controversy too? It was Four teams vying for that 2 spot FSU UM WASH and ORE
Musiq Nerd Lmao wrong oregon school
Who is UM? University of Minnesota? University of Michigan? University of Miami in Florida? University of Mississippi (aka Ole Miss)?
University of Miami-Fla and my fault on Oregon State it was 17 years ago
It doesn’t matter, Oklahoma was Unbeatable that season, Oklahoma would’ve probably put a stomping against another opponent, but Florida State was able to keep it close and still lost...
You're crazy if you think that Oklahoma team had the speed or talent to hang with that Miami team especially with the game being played in Miami. Players on that Oklahoma team admitted that they preferred to play FSU to Miami and anyways it's about the controversy the very first BCS controversy
Tyrann Mathieu was the single most dominant player I’ve ever seen. I include Joe Burrow in that conversation, too. Joe was amazing, don’t get me wrong, but I’ve never seen an undersized corner be such a game changing force. He was mesmerizing to watch and probably would have won the Heisman if he wasn’t hanging out with Jordan Jefferson so much.
He isnt a corner. He is a safety
Ok st should've been playing in the ship
Blackhawk89 because they won a shit big 12 or because they lost to ISU
They would've been destroyed.
@Jeremy the upset masters is tcu
@Bleed Orange Bama lost to the number 1 team. Y'all didn't. Simple as that.
N4ARideRTR Plays yeah still forgetting a major university tragedy the night before. We had over double your top 25 and top 50 wins. Sorry buddy, yalls resume was trash
This video just added to my disappointment from Trey Richardson and Justin Blackmon. They lit up my TV when they were in college, but they just became mere afterthoughts in the NFL.
Oklahoma State deserved to play for a National Title...
Yes you did... What else to prove for LSU. We beat them at there place, won our division, won SEC and looks who standing there. Forget defense and stats. It's like bama, is we want a do over! wtf ?what did you do to deserve it.you didn't win or do anything to deserve a second Chance ! #buckfama2018inBR
Calm your tits Doris
Doris Hall we Doris we? Were you on the team at the time or have you ever been?
Lol nah fam the 2 best teams played that year hands down if you think ok state was a top 2 team your delusional
When you lose to a 6-7 Iowa State team for which you were nearly a FIVE TOUCHDOWN favorite, you have no business playing for a National Championship. PERIOD!!! The committee got it right and put the two best teams in the title game.
One of the best years in BCS history miss this format better than the playoff taking two bowl games from four deserving teams
I am just going to leave this here...
Oklahoma State and Stanford held their own destiny in their hand. They choked it away to a horrendous Iowa State team and to Oregon respectively. Alabama was clearly the best one lose team in the country.
Oh, that's a bunch of hogwash. For one thing, Oklahoma State played a far tougher road schedule than Alabama. The Cowboys played three "true" top 25 (by Simple Rating System) teams: A&M, Texas, and Missouri. Oklahoma State beat all 3. Alabama played ZERO "true" top 25 (SRS) teams on the road. The Cowboys also showed an ability to overcome adversity and dominate; against A&M they were down 20-3 at the half but outscored the Aggies 27-9 in the second half and 2 of those points were a safety Okie State gave up willingly in the final seconds.
To put that in perspective, in the last FIFTY YEARS, only 5 national champs have played a road schedule as tough or tougher than 2011 Oklahoma State. That is, only 5 national champs have played 3 or more "true" top 25 teams on the road: 1982 Penn State (lost one), 1986 Penn State, 1988 Notre Dame, 1991 Washington, and 2001 Miami. So that includes 2 teams considered among the "greatest ever" and one that lost a game. Point being that tough road schedules are no joke. They're really hard and generally proof of a very good team if the team goes through them well.
Alabama had their destiny in their hands, at home against LSU, and choked. Alabama also got luck on the road; down 3-0 early against Penn State (an average team at best) they went for a fake punt in their own territory, got stuffed badly, but got a ridiculous bailout first down spot from the refs. Alabama was able to gain the momentum after that. Oklahoma State got no such luck on the road.
Iowa State went 6-6 in the regular season, by the way, which is far from "horrendous." On average, and especially on the road, Alabama played a weaker schedule than Okie State but SEC homerism carried the day and gave Saban a fake national title.
@@aaronrider4051 Lol just stop, your SEC/Alabama hatred is showing in full colors... Alabama finished the season with a top 15 SoS so stop acting like they did not play anyone. As far as the Penn St. game, I believe that Penn St. got a FG and then didn't score again until the 4th lol so saying "they were able to gain momentum after a bad ball spot" in the 1st quarter further shows your naivete. A loss to a 6-6 Iowa State team who barely beat an FCS team was much worse than by the #1 team by 3 points. SoS is not the end all be all when it comes to ranking teams. The 2011 Alabama team is regarded as one of the greatest football teams of all time especially when you look on the defensive side of the ball. It is even more impressive if you look back now and see how many of them went on to have NFL careers.
Point remains the same, Ok state wins and they are in but the game that they lost was to a bad 6-6 team and that is what kept them out of the championship. 45 players from the Alabama - LSU game went on to play in the NFL (to put that in perspective only one other championship game in the history of college football has had more NFL talent on the field, the Ohio State/Miami game in 2003) so guess what? Despite your animosity towards the SEC it looks like the two best teams in college football did in fact play each other for the national championship...
@@Defiantllama14
Okay, first of all, using "NFL players" as a metric for grading the strength of a team is MORONIC. Otherwise we'd have to pretend a team like 2004 Penn State (loaded with great talent on defense but went 4-7) was a "great" team. Don't waste our time with that absolute crap. But, for the record, it isn't exactly like Justin Blackmon wasn't one of the finest college receivers you could ever see.
Secondly, who the crap regards 2011 Alabama as one of the greatest teams ever? Not even for an iota of a second does that Alabama team belong in the same discussion as 1971 Nebraska, 1972 USC, 1991 Washington, or 2001 Miami.
Thirdly, Michigan lost to Ohio State in 2006, just like Alabama lost to LSU. And that loss by Michigan was better than Florida's regular season loss. But I don't hear any of you SEC homers noticing the fact that it was wildly hypocritical to give Alabama a title shot if Michigan did not get one (note: I don't think Michigan deserved one).
I also love how SEC homers trumpet SEC superiority then say things like you just said, about how SoS isn't the only thing that matters.
What an absolutely idiotic thing to say. If you have two 11-1 teams, how else are you supposed to evaluate them than by how they played against their schedules? You want to keep avoiding the fact that Oklahoma State was better against a better schedule (Alabama did NOTHING as good as blowing out Oklahoma or Baylor like Okie State did). Good for you. Go waste your own time.
And, finally, as for the Penn State game, if Penn State had been given the ball in Alabama territory in the spot in question, they put a lot more pressure on the Alabama offense which, with the bad call and ensuing TD, was able to play to its liking. On the road, that sort of thing is a big deal.
My god... were people really debating whether OSU, who lost to an unranked ISU team, should get in over Bama, whose only loss came in a tossup with the other best team in the country??
7:15 man I miss when Lee Corso could add to the show and now all he does is stumble over words and grab Kirks arm
Thank god someone else notices him grabbing Kirk constantly 😂it’s awkward af
I think that it’s because he’s getting older. 2020 is the worst for him. He’s slurring, hazy and struggling. Unfortunately I think he had another stroke. We probably won’t be seeing him come back to game day soon.
This was probably the reason the playoff started. I still believe that Alabama and LSU were the top 2 teams in the country that year though. Guess a lot of the problem was that they had already played in the regular season. Kind of off topic but as a Penn State fan I think that 2008 USC got snubbed after watching them beat us the way they did in the Rose Bowl. I still can't figure out why that team was only ranked 5th. Glad we have a playoff now to sort things out a bit more.. would like to see it expanded to 8 teams though
At least I can say Conference Champion means nothing to either BCS or CFP Committee
Alex Binkley because it shouldn't it should be the best teams not the best teams to win their conference
Ty Calvert How can you call yourself the best as a non conference champ? You can't.
Alex Binkley The conference championship should be the top two teams in the conference not who’s east west north or south
@@ChrisSizzly Pretty simple: divisions aren't always equal, nor are conferences. Do you honestly think the #1 Sun Belt team would beat the #2 SEC team?
@@BobPapadopoulos The Sun Belt conference isn’t a power 5 conference is it? Clearly you’re splitting hairs, of course all to justify the CFP or BCS putting multiple teams from the same conference to play for it all when only one of them actually won the conference. No body is buying that argument, you brain dead Bama bandwagoner.
This is probably one of my favorite videos on RUclips
“Anyone who doesn’t win their conference should have no businesses in the national championship.”
-Nick Saban 2003
no team that takes an L to ISU should play in the natty either bru
This is why we have the playoffs now. This would’ve been a great one in 2011 with two great defensive schools and 2 great offensive schools in one tournament!
Exactly! People forget that the new playoff system was created for more inclusion, not to keep Bama out of it.
To this day, I will always hold Meyer’s and Saban’s word, if you don’t win your conference, you don’t deserve a chance for the National Championship, Period. Alabama twice now, Ohio State got a playoff. Oklahoma got it in 2003 and even my team Nebraska in 2001.
Sorry but we understand it, you must win your conference to have a shot to win the National Title, period end of discussion
Saban never said that. It's been proven wrong.
Same with Notre Dame this year
@@RadicallyOptimistic they didn’t make the championship
So one loss can end it?
@John Hoyle send me the video of him saying it. Not the link to that one article of he said she said that no one's even confirmed
This popped up on my feed today for some reason. Brings back memories of how OSU got screwed out of what will likely be their only chance at a national title. The only people who wanted a Bama, LSU rematch were Bama and LSU fans. A few SEC fans but not many. The rest of the US wanted either LSU, OSU or LSU, Stanford. Bama had no business being in the NT game just like they have no business being in the playoffs this year lol. And just because I know someone will comment. I'm not an OSU, or Stanford fan.
No no no no no nooooooooo
LSU fans were BEEEGGING for OKST
We wanted no part of Bama round 2 and for obvious reasons.
OKST team offense ranking -2
OKST team defense ranking -61
LSU team offense ranking -17
LSU team defense ranking -2
LSU held the #3 offense in Oregon to 27 (gave up a TD with :13 seconds left as well)
LSU held the #13 offense (WVU) to 21.
LSU held the #15 offense (Arkansas) to 17.
LSU held the #20 offense (Bama) to 6 and 21.
These are all well below their average PPG.
Everybody thinks LSU played nothing but shit offenses but we played 4 in the top 25. OKST played 5 offenses ranked in the top 25. The best defense OKST played was 30 while LSU had played 5 in the top 25.
OKST wasn’t a bad team but we desperately wanted to play you bc Alabama was that good. Although plenty of other teams were “that good” and never got a shot too so....
Sorry didn’t see youre not a fan of them ignore the “you” and “yalls” in my rant. I am too bored right now but for LSU fans we def didn’t want Bama. We were just as butthurt as anyone else bc for three years one game cost us a national title/ chance for playing in one. 7 point loss to auburn in 2010, 2011 NC, and 4 point loss to Bama in 2012.
@@INoticeTooMuch1 I personally never watched that game and probably never will. I boycotted that National championship game.
And 10 years later they had another chance, also involving Alabama… blew it again
The one question nobody asked during all of this: what's fair? The only team a rematch favored was Alabama. They played one less game than LSU, lost at home with two weeks to prepare, and gave up over 300 rushing yards to Georgia Southern. Nobody asked if the rematch was fair to LSU or if it was fair to deny Oklahoma State a shot at the Tigers. Bama had their shot at home and blew it with poor coaching decisions by Saban who put his kicker in a position to miss four field goals. It was all to serve ESPN's agenda to create a playoff system we didn't need.
James Vineyard Nah it was needed,Ohio State was in the NC multiple times in the BCS Era,and in 03 there was controversy bc many ppl thought Oklahoma shouldn't have been in the NC after they lost the Big 12 championship to Kansas State.So yeah it was needed bad,but they should have atleast made it an 8 team playoff system.1-4,2-6,3-8,5-7 teams play in the quarterfinals,semi then the national championship.
This wasn't a controversy. Alabama lost to the the #1 team in the country by 3 points after not giving up a TD. OSU lost to unranked Iowa St. Alabama won also after not letting LSU cross the 50 till the 4th Quarter. I'd say they picked the right teams.
NCAA has a chubby for bama
Ur right. When was the last time bama played a hard schedule or beat 4 ranked teams in a year
@@mauriceboykin4422 Alabama has beaten at least five ranked teams every year since 2008 with the exception of 2013. Try doing your research before making statements like that.
Maurice Boykin Lol you’re so dumb😂😂😂
@@lakersfan3269 how is he dumb? Everything he said was nothing but the truth 🤦♂️
Maurice Boykin do you understand how hard it is for Alabama to get people to play them. Nobody wants to play bama just like no one wants to play Clemson. Everyone already knows the results
great documentaries...you should do one on the chip kelly era at oregon
I think we're all forgetting that OSU lost after a plane crash killed 2 OSU coaches, which may have affected the other coaches, but resumes speak for themselves. As an OSU fan I understand why, but still don't like it.
T W agreed
Disagreed. While the atmosphere around campus was probably fairly somber for a little bit after the tragedy, it had zero bearing on them pissing away a lead to a team like Iowa State that they should have beat. I doubt a single one of them thought about the tragedy during the game, especially when things were getting close later on, seeing as the deceased were women's basketball coaches and not football coaches. They pissed away their chance to play for a NC and that's all there is to it, shit happens. Even their destruction of OU in the regular season finale was too little, too late given the opponent their loss was to compared to Alabama's.
FYI, I say all this as a fan of none of the teams in this conversation - LSU, OSU, Alabama, or ISU - and by no means am I sullying the dead as what happened was indeed a tragedy, but it played zero part whatsoever in OSU losing that game, plain and simple.
+T W I agree. Plus their loss was on the road at night. Bama's loss was at home.
+Brandon It doesn't matter that the deceased weren't football coaches. Those kids knew who they were. Plus, this is not the only plane crash tragedy to strike OSU. How do you know they weren't thinking of their own flight return to campus in the back of their minds? Maybe it had no conscious impact, but it's extremely naive and unlikely that it had none at all.
Poke fans make more excuses than any other fan base in the entire world
Not only would we have beaten the rest of the teams in “playoff” but video reminds me of why I loved Miles & the stud running backs we had !
Bad decision by a flawed system. It's hard to beat a team twice. This rematch should've never happened.
By what criteria? The BCS was always #1 vs #2, even back when Florida replayed FSU. There was never any rule or stipulation that the game couldn't be a rematch.
Oklahoma state shoulda got in with that beat down of Oklahoma. Bama just got to rest up
@@BobPapadopoulos FSU never replayed UF in the BCS era, genius. The BCS premiered in 1998/99. The FSU/UF rematches were in 1994/95 and 1996/97.
Great video and I will forever say that no matter how many times people want to talk about that 2011 college football season in the end a 4 team playoff would have been fair and reasonable.
Although it would have been cool to see Oklahoma State in the BCS, the bowl scores showed that they made the correct choice when putting Alabama in.
I remember watching ISU v. OSU when i was like 4 with my dad.. will always be one of my favorite moments in iowa state sports
iowa state game was the best game I had ever been to will never forget it
That was a crazy and fun season! My USC Trojans were a non factor, so I just got to sit back and watch the craziness without having a dog in the fight. The build up was great, but the best game was Stanford/OSU. The title game ended up being such a disappointment. A team who didn't even win their subdivision of their conference getting gifted in to the last game. Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of admiration for Bama, and they obviously did the job. I had no doubt they COULD win, I just don't think they should have been in the game. And then on top of that, LSU didn't even compete in that game. This game was like thinking you were going out for a great steak dinner and getting a Wendy's cheeseburger instead.
How they don’t deserve to be in the game when they won the game you make no sense. I could see why you say that if they were to get blown out or something.
I love these videos
Oklahoma State: Yeah, 5-4 Iowa State outscored us 30-7 in the second half and overtime, but we were still the 2nd-best team in the nation.
Alabama: OK
And then turned around the next week and beat the #10 team in the nation by 34.
@@levilively8643 People like to overlook the tragedy that literally just happened.
@@levilively8643 Good win. Doesn't erase an embarrassing collapse to a 5-4 team.
@@meowmeow7900 The crash and loss of life were indeed tragic and painful. Still Okla St. ran out to a 3-score lead in the second half. The Pokes were obviously focused on the game but somehow collapsed against a team they should have beaten handily.
@@robotunes I don't mean to indicate the reason they lost was the tragedy, just that it was not just some we showed up normally type of loss. It was a trap game if there ever was one. An away game on a Friday night, short week, with other drama going on an opponent you can take for granted and worry more about future issues as opposed to the current situation.
Thank god for the playoff
Different Producer same thing happend
What would have been different? Alabama would have been in a 4 team playoff and would have still won the title.
If the word “rematch” didn’t get thrown around, we may not have seen the title game happen.
As an ISU fan, that was a great game.
I feel like this was the season that really got them thinking yeah we need this playoff...because this 2011 season really exposed the flaws in the BCS no way Alabama should have been in the champion game winning the national champion but not winning there conference champion wait didn't even play in that game and I love both teams but it's hard beating a team twice especially after they basically had a bye week to prepare
Many LSU fans saw what was coming when we had that Bama rematch in the BCS. Les Miles was never known for changing game plans, doing *anything* “on the fly”, or...well... most things...great recruiter though! Ahem, anyway I always have felt deep down that Bama and LSU were generally the best teams in the nation, to be fair a sentiment I don’t believe I share alone. However, the fact is that once Alabama lost to LSU at home, I just think it should have eliminated them from contention seeing as LSU was the Championship opponent. I don’t care how close it was, nor do I care how a kicker made the difference. LSU beat Alabama. LSU should have played the third ranked team in this instance. The BCS did not put emphasis on head-to-head. Ok State was screwed out of a Championship opportunity. Just my opinion. I generally hate the concept of rematches in college football.
As an FSU fan, we've been bit by rematches before. Beat a great UF team in 1996 and lost to them in the Sugar Bowl. How is it remotely fair that the team that wins the first game is punished by having to play the same great team again and whoever wins last game is the one that gets the glory? FSU had to play that team twice in a row. It makes no sense. FSU and UF also played twice in a row in 1994/95 (UF had the SECCG between each, but no ACCCG for FSU) but the Sugar Bowl was more of an impromptu OT game when the regular season game was tied on the field. That's not how CFB should work and it happened again in the 2021/22 CFP: Bama had to play the same UGA team they beat just a few weeks prior. Absolute BS.
IMO, LSU, Alabama, and Oklahoma State can all claim the 2011 title.
I love seeing underdog stories, but I just saw no way in any dimension that OSU was jumping Alabama in the rankings
It's been stated by just about everyone, but this is probably what gave us the playoff.
Coaches: Alabama lost to LSU, a ranked team but Oklahoma State lost to the unranked team. Put Alabama in the title game!
OKST fans: *visible frustration*