Fans of college football are eagerly anticipating the BCS standings that will come out on Sunday night. These numbers are important, and there is a lot at stake in this week’s rankings. My prediction is that LSU will be number one, that Alabama will be number two, and that the teams will meet each other in the BCS championship game. I think that’s pretty much everyone’s prediction at this point. Still, everyone knows that in college football the only stat that matters is the final score. So while we wait to see how the BCS rankings shake-out, let’s take a look at how LSU and Alabama have done in final…

My Louisiana Tech Bulldogs started the season at 1-4 but went on from there to win the next seven games in a row. With their win over New Mexico State tonight, they finish the season at 8-4 and clinch the Western Athletic Conference championship. This is their first conference title since they entered the WAC ten years ago. Tech will be playing in the San Diego County Poinsettia Bowl on December 21. This is the fifth bowl invitation in the history of Tech football, and it is the first since the Bulldogs’ victory or Northern Illinois in the 2008 Independence Bowl. How ’bout them Dawgs!

I confess that I had a pit in my stomach going in to the Arkansas game. The Hogs always seem to give LSU trouble at the end of the year. Arkansas had beaten LSU three out of the last four times we played them, and before kickoff I felt like anything could happen. When Arkansas went up 14-0 in the second quarter, I thought, “Here we go again.”