It's what we wanted and it's what we got. It was announced during the BCS Selection Show on ESPN Sunday night that the BCS title game will feature the nation's top two programs going head-to-head.
And those teams are the Alabama Crimson Tide and the LSU Tigers.
To the dismay of Oklahoma State fans, they will not face the No. 1 team in the nation, but instead will face Andrew Luck and the No. 4 Stanford Cardinal in the Fiesta Bowl.
Alabama narrowly beat out the Cowboys by .009 percentage points, the closest tally since the current format was implemented in 2004.
The system has always been known to feature the two top teams in the nation and that's what they did again this year, as Alabama will get an attempt of redemption against the team that beat them 9-6 in overtime in Tuscaloosa earlier this season.
However, this future matchup will come with some ferocity as this is the first ever BCS National Championship game that features two teams from the same conference. Many fans around the country were hoping for an LSU-Oklahoma State matchup, as it represents some diversity within the conferences, but it didn't happen.
Alabama's lone loss came to the No. 1 ranked team in the nation, while the Cowboys' only loss came against an Iowa State team that finished the regular season 6-6. So one can say that Alabama ultimately deserved to be in the title game since their one loss was to arguably the best team thus far.
Over the amazing five-year run by the SEC, the national champions have been Florida (twice), LSU, Alabama and Auburn. These five schools have beaten such teams as Ohio State (twice), Oklahoma, Texas and Oregon, respectively.
This game is also a sure definition that the SEC is the best conference in all of college football and there is really no conference that can challenge them.
Hell, even at one point, the BCS rankings featured LSU, Alabama and Arkansas as the top three teams in the nation, all of which are in the SEC and are also part of the same division (SEC West).
This game will also feature two Heisman candidates as Alabama running back Trent Richardson will go up against LSU's cornerback Tyrann Mathieu. The Heisman trophy will be announced next weekend and as of right now, there is no clear-cut winner.
But anyway, we will see what happens on Jan. 9, as the two best teams in the nation go at it for the national title.
Here are some of the notable bowl games that will take place over the next month:
* AT&T Cotton Bowl: No. 6 Arkansas vs. No. 8 Kansas State (Jan. 6)
* Discover Orange Bowl: No. 15 Clemson vs. No. 23 West Virginia (Jan. 4)
* Allstate Sugar Bowl: No. 11 Virginia Tech vs. No. 13 Michigan (Jan. 3)
* Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: No. 3 Oklahoma State vs. No. 4 Stanford (Jan. 2)
* Rose Bowl: No. 5 Oregon vs. No. 10 Wisconsin (Jan. 2)
* Outback Bowl: No. 16 Georgia vs. No. 17 Michigan State (Jan. 2)
* Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl: Florida vs. Ohio State (Jan. 2)
* Capital One Bowl: No. 9 South Carolina vs. No. 20 Nebraska (Jan. 2)
* TicketCity Bowl: No. 19 Houston vs. No. 22 Penn State (Jan. 2)
* Chick-Fil-A Bowl: No. 25 Auburn vs. Virginia (Dec. 31)
* Insight Bowl: No. 14 Oklahoma vs. Iowa (Dec. 30)
* Valero Alamo Bowl: No. 12 Baylor vs. Washington (Dec. 29)
* Champs Sports Bowl: Notre Dame vs. Florida State (Dec. 29)
* Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl: No. 24 Texas vs. California (Dec. 28)
* MAACO Las Vegas Bowl: No. 7 Boise State vs. Arizona State (Dec. 22)
* San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl: No. 18 TCU vs. Louisiana Tech (Dec. 21)
I don't know about ya'll, but I can't wait for bowl season to officially start.
