{"id":533,"date":"2011-12-06T02:22:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T07:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2012-05-10T11:10:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T16:10:42","slug":"alabama-vs-lsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"ALABAMA VS LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am tailgating at the Alabama-LSU game in Tuscaloosa earlier this season.\u00a0Some people are upset about the BCS National Championship selection rematch between Alabama and LSU. This years BCS point differential between #2 Alabama and #3 Oklahoma State was the smallest in the history of the new BCS format at 0.009. With all factors considered I think the BCS made the right selection though. Alabama and LSU have played like the top 2 teams in college football all season. All other contenders for the #2 spot lost by a margin greater than the 3-point Alabama loss to LSU to teams of lesser ranking and records. But there are more questions and issues amongst fans besides the title game. I think college football fans would all like to see some type of playoff format even if it is a hybrid BCS-Playoff system. Would you like to see a playoff system? Do you think Alabama will be able to pull out the big win in the title game or will LSU be too strong?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_0473.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-557\" title=\"DSC_0473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_0473-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_0473-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/DSC_0473-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Alabama-LSU-game.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-559\" title=\"Alabama-LSU game\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Alabama-LSU-game-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Alabama-LSU-game-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Alabama-LSU-game-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Alabama-LSU-game-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-558\" title=\"Alabama-LSU game 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Alabama-LSU-game-2-1024x689.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Alabama-LSU-game-2-1024x689.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Alabama-LSU-game-2-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=533' data-title='ALABAMA VS LSU' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=533' data-title='ALABAMA VS LSU' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am tailgating at the Alabama-LSU game in Tuscaloosa earlier this season.\u00a0Some people are upset about the BCS National Championship selection rematch between Alabama and LSU. This years BCS point differential between #2 Alabama and #3 Oklahoma State was the smallest in the history of the new BCS format at 0.009. With all factors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-the-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}