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Scott D. Pierce writes about television for the Salt Lake Tribune. A member of the board of the Television Critics Association, he's covered TV in Utah since 1990.
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Monday on TV: It's LSU vs. Alabama for mythical national championship
Published on Jan 9, 2012 10:22AM

Alabama and LSU meet for the second time this season in the BCS championship game (6:30 p.m., ESPN) to decide this year's mythical national championship.

That's not a slam against LSU or Alabama. But it is a slam against the BCS.

Until there's a playoff, then this game is all about the BCS and not about an actual national championship. And the BCS was designed to make the rich richer, not to find out what the best college football team in America really is.

Elsewhere on TV ...

The Bachelor (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): The 18 women who survived Week 1 travel to Ben's hometown.

America's Money Class with Suze Orman (7 p.m., OWN): Suze provides lessons in erasing debt and buying a home.

Fear Factor (8 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5): Contestants have to eat roaches and grasshoppers. That's entertainment?

Castle (9:01 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): A womanizer dies under questionable circumstances.

Pretty Little Liars (9 and 11 p.m., ABC Family): The girls find out that ''A'' is not acting alone.

The Lying Game (10 p.m,. ABC Family): Emma visits her father's alma mater.

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