Not surprisingly, Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy, in town to accept the Football Writers Association of America Coach of the Year award, had an opinion on how the system should be restructured.
“A final four,’’ said Gundy, who suggested the “semifinals’’ could be played the week after the conference championships.
This year, Gundy said LSU would have played No. 4 Stanford in Baton Rouge, and Oklahoma State would have played Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
“The winners of those two games would play [in the championship] game,’’ Gundy said. “It would give you one more game, something like the Final Four in basketball.’’
Gundy said he would have liked the opportunity to see what his one-loss club could have done against the SEC’s best.
“I wanted to see what our offense could do on the big stage,’’ said Gundy, whose team beat Stanford, 41-38, in overtime in the Fiesta Bowl. “I wanted to know what [quarterback] Brandon Weeden could do against LSU. It would have been interesting.’’
Fans left seat-less
There’s another ticket mess at a football championship game. Dozens of fans arrived at the Superdome to find their seats had been taken over for auxiliary press seating.
The top two rows of the upper deck were used as an overflow area for the media, with one of the rows covered by tables. Fans paid $300 for the seats, but they were turned away.
The mix-up is similar to the situation at last year’s Super Bowl in Arlington, Texas, where some temporary seating had not been inspected and couldn’t be used.
Some angry fans had to watch the game on televisions in a lounge at Cowboys Stadium.
LSU’s Miles honored
Les Miles came out a winner before the game. Miles won the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year award for the Football Bowl Subdivision after he led the Tigers to a perfect regular-season record and an SEC championship.
