Let’s face it. When it comes to Saturday night’s Game of the Century between No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama, we in the media don’t KNOW anything.
We think we do. We hope we do. But other than being fairly certain that both the visiting Tigers and Crimson Tide may be even better than our mom’s pumpkin pie smothered in whipped cream, we have no idea what will transpire when the two kick it off at 8 p.m.
But Tennessee’s Vols do know something, because they’ve played both super heavyweights, losing to each by remarkably similar scores. LSU won 38-7 in Knoxville. Alabama won 37-6 in Tuscaloosa.
Given the three to five points the home field is supposed to be worth, that would seem to say LSU is the slightly better team. Then again, the Tide pretty much toyed with the Vols in the fourth quarter, basically turning its back on two near-certain late scores.
So maybe Alabama really is worthy of being a five-point favorite, which is where Las Vegas oddsmakers had the Tide on Wednesday.