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BY JONAH JAVAD

 

LSU. Alabama. Number one. Number two. Senators. Honey badgers. And everything in between.

So who’s on them blogs? The Wall St Journal is...

“All it means—all any of it means—is that the two teams are an even and intriguing match. Which, in turn, means that college football fans have the most reasonable excuse for a full-on pigskin freakout that they’re likely to have until January. Not that they needed it, but here it is.”


He’s not freaking out but he is a freak. I’m talking bout Alabama running back Trent Richardson.

ESPN analyst David Pollack shows us just how good this Heisman candidate really is.

“He does a great job with the cut back. You watch number one come up there and number nine come up there, both guys have a chance, nope. He splits right down the middle of em. Trent Richardson is a guy that even when it’s not blocked, he can make plays. And you’re gonna have to do that against an LSU defense that is always flying around and always making big plays.”

On the other side, there’s an LSU cornerback who doesn’t care. He just takes what he wants.

“I will say this. The X-factor might be the Honey Badger, who is a cornerback for LSU named Tyrann Mathieu. Just the fact he’s nicknamed the Honey Badger , I think comes into play. Not to mention his teammate Barkevious Mingo. You get Barkevious and the Honey Badger working together, it’s really hard to stop that defense.”

Crazy? Yeah. But when senators from Alabama and Louisiana are betting shrimp dinners, lunacy also comes to mind.

Louisiana senator David Vitter had this to say on LSU’s chances...

“It really doesn’t matter who LSU’s opponent is, because, as we say in Louisiana, the honey badger takes what he wants, and we look forward to doing that on Saturday night.”



So if you haven’t figured it out, this game is kind of important. But will people’s expectations exceed the game’s reality?

The New Yorker thinks so...

“These games rarely live up to the hype. Of the twenty-one games ESPN predicted would be this college-football season’s best, only eight have been decided by fewer than ten points. It’s always better to be pleasantly surprised (like we were in Game Six of this year’s World Series) than to sit through a relative letdown (like we did with the perfectly adequate Game Seven).”

Well, that’s why they play the game. So we can shut up.

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Game of the Year: LSU vs Alabama?

November 5, 2011
(2:30)
The highly anticipated showdown of the #1 and #2 ranked teams. Are you ready?
   
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