New Orleans is a very unique city in America. We love to eat and drink probably more than what's healthy for us. It's home to two of the largest music festivals within the united states, Jazz fest and Essence fest of which the former just passed a few months ago and the later is this weekend. New Orleans is also home to what us locals call "Carnival" officially beginning on the Feast of epiphany, which locals sometimes refer to as "Twelfth Night". The Carnival season is often known (especially by out-of-towners) by the name of its last day, Mardi Gras (Frenchfor "Fat Tuesday"), which is held the Tuesday before the beginning of the Catholic liturgical season of Lent, which commences on Ash Wednesday.

One other thing we love and take much pride in is our sports teams. New Orleans is home to a wide variety of sporting events. Most notable are the home games of the New Orleans Saints(NFL) and the New Orleans Hornets (NBA), New Orleans Voodoo (AFL),The New Orleans Blaze are a women's football team in the National womans football association.

The annual Sugar Bowl, the annual Zurich classic (PGA Tour) and horse racing at the Fair grounds race course, the nations third oldest thoroughbred track. Also, New Orleans regularly hosts the Super Bowl, the college football BCS National Championship game, and the NCAA college basketball Final Four.

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There is no doubt that this season in college football has been for lack of a better word crazy. The same holds true for the LSU Tigers and it's fans. After getting off to a quick start by slaughtering  VT 48-7 the second week of the season, it wasn't long before fans and media thought this team was a shoe in for the BCS championship game. Then came along a Kentucky Wildcat team that at the time was on a roll. They beat LSU in triple overtime and bounced the Tigers from the #1 spot in the polls.

 LSU kept plugging away though and soon was on a collision course with either Georgia or Tenn. in the SEC Title game. First they had to face an Arkansas team with a running back named Darren McFadden who has giving the Tigers fits in the past. Needless to say LSU lost that game also in 3 overtimes. Nobody expected that after winning the SEC Title game that both the #1 and #2 teams would both lose and LSU would find itself not only talked about again for the BCS Championship game but be in it after being selected as the #2 team in the Nation.

It took a whole lot of hard work from these young men to get itself into this game against the #1 Ohio st. Buckeyes. It will take the same to defeat them as well. The Buckeyes are no slouches and deserve to be there as much as LSU. They have some solid players both on offense and defense. A healthy LSU though in my opinion has just a little bit more. Question is... who wants it more? Which team is hungry and ready to shut up those who say they don't belong? On Jan. 7 we will find out just that, two teams, a trophy and one champion. Will it be Ohio st. or will it be LSU?

So until the day of the game here are two videos one of the LSU 2007 season and one of the Ohio st. university season enjoy.

Both videos would not post for whatever reason so I added them to the comments.

After another great week of college football and another upset of a high ranked team, we are all awaiting the new BCS rankings. The question is After a stunning ( to Eagles fans mostly) loss by #2 ranked Boston College, who should take their place? Should it be LSU who came into lastnights game against Alabama ranked #3 in the BCS poll? What about Oregon who was ranked #5 and put a convincing beatdown on the #4 and undefeated ASU? Then there is the Kansas Jayhawks. Who is undefeated and headed towards a Big12 showdown with more than likely Oklahoma. Should they move into second in the BCS rankings? All these teams have a legitimate claim to the Spot. But let's look at LSU and my thoughts.

 LSU beat a very good Crimson Tide team. Once again though they had to come from behind to win it. Is that what a championship team looks like? A lot of Tiger fans think so. They have a good argument also as to why LSU belongs at #2. No team in CFB this season has played and beat as many top 20 teams as did the Tigers. They loss just one of those games against Kentucky in 3 O.T. to lose the #1 ranking that they held. Some say the SEC is the toughest to play in. Hey I'm an SEC guy and don't buy into that ####. No matter the conference you still have to play and win your games. There are tough teams in every conference. Especialy in this years season, which may go down as one of the wackiest but greatest seasons in history. Then there are the ones who just can't figure out why LSU is even in this horse race. Those people say LSU is overated and that they get lucky. That's a lot of luck for one season if you ask me. I see them as a team that no matter how far down they are, like a true championship team they get the job done in the end.

I do not buy into the overated #### that is usualy slung by fans of teams that just do not know much of anything about football. No team who is in the top 5 at this time is overated. They are there because they belong and have showed that each and every week. If LSU is an overated team then we would have to make that same assumption last year about Florida and that they did not belong in the NC game. They was there and they won convincingly against a good OSU team. Oh wait! was it OSU that may have been overated? Like I said it's #### and people will say that as long as it's not their team there. OSU belonged there and looks poised to be there again this year.

Now like I said I am an SEC guy, and a Tiger fan as I am sure you can see. But I'm no fool and would be just that if I said that Oregon, Kansas, OU or some other team did not belong at #2. I'm neither an expert nor some dumb number crunching computer that I wish would catch a virus that it never is able to recover from. So with all that said this is how I see the polls this week. If I am wrong and my Tigers stay where they are or drop, I'll be man enough to say that the other team belongs. I will not be on others blogs slinging #### in their teams face. So let the chips fall where they may and I will still be yelling "Geaux Tigers" each and every week. They may not look like a champion to you, but to me they are just that.

#1- OSU

#2-LSU

#3Oregon

#4KANSAS

#5OU