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Nice LSU Picks
Published: 1/10/2012 3:54 PM
Last Modified: 1/10/2012 3:58 PM

Every so often we tune into Hee Haw Radio for the important picks and some great mid-American humor.

"Hee Haw" was a TV show known for its unpretentious roots and simple, straight forward points of view.

Hee Haw Radio operates out of Oklahoma City and is the home of OU football love.

The OU adoration is pretty predictable. And so are the big-boy football picks.

The biggest college football game of the year is unfortunately the ESPN Shyster Bowl, the last football game deemed to name a champion. Given the horrible attendance at this year's bowls, and the inherent unfairness of the BCS system, it seems likely that a change is coming, a plus-one game at the least, a four-team playoff to keep it simple. Better to cheat the fifth rated team than the third rated team.

So late Monday evening we pulled off the street and listened for the Alabama-LSU selections on the radio.

We picked Alabama. Anybody who knows college football and saw the first game was aware that Bama was at least LSU's equal, and that in rematches for all the crystal, the beaten team comes back feisty; and that Loopy Les is nicknamed that for a reason.

But the money started falling on LSU and never quit. The smart money played LSU. The dumb money played LSU. The line went from Alabama being favored by one and a half to LSU being favored by one, a huge move on such a heavily bet game.

The radio picks were as follows: The number one OU fan picked LSU. The number one-A OU fan picked LSU. The one who occasionally gets loud picked LSU.

Why?

Here is where you had better sit down. Get a cool cloth. Elevate your feet. Breathe deeply. Ready? They picked LSU to defeat Alabama because of a big edge in quarterback play!

It's why you should never listen to sports talk radio, either locally or nationally, while operating heavy machinery. You could run up a curb.



Reader Comments 14 Total
Tulsan in Exile (last year)
As a matter of principle, I neither watched the game nor listened on the radio. But reading about it this morning, it sounded pretty dull. How anybody could talk about QB play at either Alabama or LSU is a mystery. A field goal fest usually doesn't require anything from the QB. Remember when Tebow shredded the SEC as sub-par QB? I can't help but wonder what Weeden would have done in against either Bama or LSU.
Big John Ugh (last year)
What a joke it is the way the best sport of all, college football, annoints its national champion. A team that didnt even win its division, much less its conference, plays for the national championship because a network wants it. They hyped the re-match as soon as the clock was at 00:00 in the first meeting. What a joke !!!!
Dee-Bo (last year)
Who cares that they didn't win their conference. Playoff teams in the NFL do not win their divisions and win Superbowls. No one questions a six loss Green Bay team that wins a Super Bowl.
                    
chad1968 (last year)
They don't question Green Bay winning the Super Bowl because they have a playoff, not a beauty contest, to get into the Super Bowl.....
Goffer (last year)
Great post Chad!
love 918 (last year)
OSU's bowl win came against a team who didn't win their conference, and Oregon and USC both scored more points on Stanford's defense than OSU.

LSU scored more points on Oregon's defense than any other PAC12 team.

Arkansas beat A&M and KSU on a neutral field by a total of 17 points, OSU beat them by a total of 8 points (including one game at home).

BCS worked this year. It put the two best teams against each other and kept a team who lost to Iowa St out of the NC.
206615 (last year)
How the overrated SEC continues to fool the so called pundits is a mystery...the final 1 and 2 ranked teams are terrible...no offense whatsoever...and the rest of the SEC teams? Big Ten caliber.
sokodad (last year)
love, USC scored their points in 3 overtimes, at least two of which were TDs, I think. Pretty sure oSu's 38 points in regulation was more than SC got.

Oregon had a pic-6, dropping its offensive production to 46. They may have had either a punt or kick return in that game, too, if I'm remembering correctly.

If so, oSu's offensive production, given the long layoff and its effects on such a timing-based approach, appears to compare quite favorably to each of the two potent teams you reference, don't you think?
The Picker (last year)
OSU didn't beat Iowa State.

Or did it?

They should change the rule, if it goes over the goal posts, it's good.

It's like saying if a pitch goes over the outside corner, it's a ball.
Golden Hurricane (last year)
You can dispute the way that a champion is determined, but you really can't dispute that Alabama is the best team...it's pretty obvious to anyone with an observant eye that, boring as it was, Bama and LSU were the two best teams hands down.
The Picker (last year)
GH, that's pure supposition.
MexiMike (last year)
GH, who was thought better before their respective games?

Boise State or OU?
Utah or Alabama?
West Virginia or OU?

Anything can happen on a playing field on any day. Alabama was great going up against a type of offense that it sees every week in the SEC. I would have liked to have seen what happened when OSU spread them out all over the field.
eck74 (last year)
Wow. Publishing your picks after the game is pretty ballsy.
The Picker (last year)
Eck, the Alabama over LSU pick was made approximately 240 hours before the kickoff.
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