Top-ranked Alabama will square off with LSU in Death Valley later on today. Then, three days later, we’ll have the chance to vote on a Super Tuesday that will (mercifully) cap off one of the most heated (hated?) presidential campaigns in our country’s history.
So, just how are those two items even remotely related?
According to al.com, the winner of the Alabama-LSU game has “predicted” the outcome of the presidential race every election cycle since 1984. Every year the Tide won, the Democratic nominee made 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue their new address. When the Tigers won, it was the Republican nominee taking up residence in the Oval Office.
From the website:LSU won by two in 1984, and Ronald Reagan stormed the White House. LSU won by a point in 1988, and George H.W. Bush whipped Michael Dukakis. LSU won in 2000 and again in 2004, and so did George W. Bush.
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Alabama hammered LSU in 1992, and Bill Clinton took the office. The Tide shut out LSU in 1996, and Clinton took out Bob Dole. Alabama in 2008 – under Nick Saban – beat his former team 27-21. That was the year Barack Obama won his first term. In 2012, a T.J. Yeldon screen pass did LSU in, and Barack Obama won again.
Bovada.lv currently has the Crimson Tide as an 8.5-point road favorite over the Tigers at the time of this posting. If hype videos mean anything, though -- spoiler alert: they don’t -- “President Trump” could very well become a part of the country’s lore in the coming days...