Get Your BCS Championship Tickets Now: LSU vs. USC

Ahhhh crap, I can smell it from here. There's something brewing in the American South that smells like "Tigah Bait! Tigah Bait! ELLLESSUUUU!" Oh yeah! In less than four days, LSU kicks the crap out of Mississippi State University. Nothing like a little SEC inter-conference battle to cut the ribbon for the 2007 NCAA football season.

Will it all play out with a Hollywood ending? Could John David Booty come home to the Louisiana Superdome to face a school many once thought he might lead to a BCS title? If the season comes down to USC vs. LSU for the national championship, then we can finally check the box next to the word "satisfactory" in the playoff-less world of NCAA Division I football. It's the matchup that everyone wanted to see in the 2004 BCS Championship Game - well, everyone except Boomer Sooner and those in the general vicinity of Norman, Tulsa, Claremore and the greater Grand Lake area in Oklahoma.

How I see it:

LSU and USC both run the table in their regular season, including perfect records in conference play. Both squads will experience challenges from conference foes that are on the rise - Kentucky and Arkansas, and Cal and UCLA, respectively. The traditional rivals will offer all the fanfare of years past, yet without the results that slid into the schedule a year ago. LSU and USC are simply a head above the shoulders of the rest of the the SEC and PAC-10.

Both squads will see a test early in the season when USC plays Big XII North favorite, and program on the mend, Nebraska. LSU must face an emotionally charged Virginia Tech. Fortunately for VT will be LSU's 2007 Death Valley home opener.

Once the water boils out of the pot, USC will seek and find retribution in the UCLA category, and LSU will beat either Kentucky or Tennessee in the SEC Championship game. (Forgive me, I need a game or two to see what's going to happen in the SEC East.) Then January will usher in a buzz to New Orleans that will only be duplicated when the Saints win the Superbowl, as John David comes home to see his MawMaw and PawPaw, have a little crawfish and realize that although he'll be a top 3 pick in the 2008 NFL draft, his offensive line won't hold off Glenn Dorsey long enough to make his homecoming a victorious effort.

LSU - 31 USC - 26

Go ahead and say it now - I'm the smartest man alive. OK, maybe not...but I am the smartest man in this room. And being that I'm watching syndicated episodes of The Cosby Show at mid-night, I'm obviously the only man in this room.

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