OK, our Tennessee Vols and Georgia Bulldogs football teams won’t be in the national championship game this time around. That leaves some local fans disappointed, even though there is always next year.
But is it not remarkable that two Southeastern Conference teams will be in the title game Jan. 9? Louisiana State and the University of Alabama will meet at the Superdome in New Orleans, after they topped the Bowl Championship Series standings.
Between them, they have only one loss this year: Alabama’s 9-6 overtime loss to LSU on Nov. 5.
What makes all this even more amazing is that with the championship certain to go to an SEC team, the SEC will have won six consecutive national championships, stretching back to the 2006 season.
There is no lack of debates about which college football conference is the strongest.