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Esteemed ESPN columnist Rick Reilly was peeved!

The Alabama Crimson Tide will play for the BCS Title, despite not winning their conference or even reaching their conference title game.

Sorry. Alabama playing in the title game is bonkers. A team that didn’t even make its conference title game will be playing in the national title game?

Bayou Bengals are beating their brains out against Georgia at the Georgia Dome — aka, the crime scene — Alabama will be enjoying chicken wings and “Tosh.0″ reruns and resting up.

Or what about Stanford-LSU? Like the Houndstooths, the Cardinal only have one loss, theirs to an Oregon team faster than 4G.

You don’t think a Stanford team led by Heisman Trophy shoo-in QB Andrew Luck wouldn’t make any SEC defense wonder whether to scream or go bowling

Or LSU vs. one-loss Boise State? The Cowboys fell to TCU by just one point.

You SEC fans remember Boise State, right?

It went down south in Week 1 and beat Georgia? Georgia, the team that’s one win from claiming your most holy and exalted SEC title?

Anti-KC Res Says:

December 1st, 2011 at 3:14 PM

Did I just read a grown man use the word, “bonkers?”

Craig James shines Rick Reilly’s shaven ass.

Maybe I missed the sarcasm, but Rick Reilly was never an NBA coach.  Were you referring to Pat?

Esteemed ESPN columnist Rick Reilly was peeved!

Did RR just start watching, reading up on, college football this week? Those are the comments of someone recently dropped to Earth, devoid of any background info, circumstance, or perspective. Inane. SI and ESPN should be ashamed of his stupidity.

Man, these SEC fans are good. The hate email came in before the column was even finished.

Hey Reilly:

I hope you get gangrene on your nose. Your so-called "article" ridiculing an LSU-Alabama rematch for the national championship was stupid. Just because you thought the first one was "boring" does not mean these are not the two best teams. Go back to your spider hole.

--Jimmy Tomjack, Birmingham, Ala.

The first LSU-Alabama game was more boring than Tim Tebow's porn stash. To play another one will be like remaking "J. Edgar" or attending a goiter convention.

But that's not why there should be no Dullapalooza II on Jan. 9 in the Superdome. There shouldn't be one because it makes the BCS honchos liars. This is their Twitter handle: @EveryGameCounts. But how can every game count if it doesn't matter who won the first one?

If you remember, LSU won the first game -- which resembled hippos taking a mud bath -- 9-6 (in OT, no less), in Tuscaloosa. Didn't hurt the Tide any. They're going to get a mulligan if we don't stop it. You have to figure, too, that, if Alabama had won, then LSU would only have one loss and the Tigers would get the redo. This is because, apparently, no conference can really play football in this country except the SEC, which invented the sport in 2006.

Reilly occasionally writes something worth reading.  Generally though, he just tries to make people mad so he can make fun of them in the next column.  I can guarantee that next week he'll run a column responding to the most poorly written rebuttals that Alabama fans send in in response to his latest column.  He'll do his best to make the entire state of Alabama look bad while proving himself to be the smartest, wittiest, most educated sportswriter alive.  I really don't like him as a person.