College Football Tickets Showcase

If there’s anything inherently unfair about college football it’s that success breeds success. What I mean by that statement is this: If you build it they will come. In other words getting to the top is the biggest challenge in college football. Once you get there every great high school player in the country takes you seriously and wants to be a part of it. Sure, other factors play into it, like tradition and location, and alumni attention. But the bottom line is that winning overcomes most of these. The Alabama Crimson Tide, having just won a BCS National Championship, are the proof of that.

Nick Saban pulled out his easygoing manner and shy grin to woo some great football prospects to the Crimson Tide fold again, helped by that crystal trophy.

College football prospects are rated from 1 to 5 stars and not many get that coveted 5. 4 is considered a player with a solid chance of making an immediate impact in their freshman season. A 5 is as sure a thing as you can get. A lot depends on the more established players in front of any position, but a 4 or 5 star recruit has a good chance to see the field soon.

The Alabama Crimson Tide pulled in four players impressive enough to hit the high mark of 5 stars. These were Linebacker Reuben Foster, Defensive End Jonathan Allen, Tight End O.J. Howard, and Defensive Tackle A’Shawn Robinson.

Considering the fact that Alabama will be losing some key pieces to graduation and the NFL, having a class with this much potential means the Alabama Crimson Tide will lose very little in the way of momentum. The top kids in the country want to be a part of the Nick Saban Parade and that is so totally unfair to the rest of the college football nation that it’s ….unfair.

The Alabama Crimson Tide took it on the chin Saturday, falling 29-25 to #4 ranked Texas A & M. The loss for the #1 team in college football was a stunning display of the erratic nature of college football. But it was a fine example of how one sensational day by a player can derail an entire season of work by an excellent college football team. In this case the team was the Crimson Tide, who came into the game unbeaten and waving the banner of a second consecutive BCS National Championship. The player was Texas A & M’s Johnny Manziel, known around Texas as “Johnny Football” a freshman quarterback with football instincts out the yazoo and a propensity for finding the right play at the right time.

As much as Manziel did on this fall afternoon, the Aggies can also boast of a defensive play that may have turned the college football polls on their heads and unearthed a new #1 and possibly ended the SEC domination of the championship picture. With LSU holding two losses, and now Alabama sporting a shocking loss after 13 consecutive victories, the undefeated teams in the nation like Notre Dame, Oregon, and Kansas State have had the door blasted wide open to fill spots in the BCS Championship Game.

Manziel led a potent A&M offense, and the Aggies seemed to have the game locked down before Alabama scored on a long touchdown pass with 4 1/2 minutes left. After an A & M series, the Tide’s A.J. McArron had Alabama in a goal to go situation before throwing an end zone interception directly into the arms of Deshazor Everett, ending the Tide’s chance on Saturday and possibly for the season.

The winner has a chance of taking it all. The loser will just have to suck it up for another season. That pretty much sums up the outcome following the Saturday night college football premiere matchup of the week with LSU and Alabama. If Alabama can win this one, and they’ll have to do it in the dreaded Death Valley of LSU, it’s pretty much a given that the Crimson Tide will be in another BCS National Championship Game.

But the LSU Tigers can’t be counted out. From all angles this Tigers team may not appear to be as dominant as in the past, but they have the advantage of the home crowd, and a pesky way of playing very well against Alabama. With a vengeance fueled college football team on the field you can’t discount anything, and LSU has plenty of reasons to want some payback against the Alabama Crimson Tide.

It could be argued that the LSU Tigers have endured a more challenging season. LSU lost at Florida but they’ve been in a string of contests with ranked teams Alabama on the other hand, has played a run of patsies, with the exception of possibly Mississippi State, not really a strong contender in anyone’s book.

So a 1-loss LSU desperately needs a win against an undefeated Alabama team to gain that head to head tiebreaker. As far as college football games go this is a big one. The Tide roll in as the #1 team in the nation while LSU currently sits at #5. Both are built on strong running games and good defensive play. If anything, the Tigers and Tide are mirror images. It’s just going to be the team that can execute mistake free football that should have the edge.