Since I'm sure the team is watching film today, then moving on to greener pastures, I'll give a tiny bit of time to LSU well after-the-fact, then paying them no mind until next year.
I don't understand people who are looking to divine some sort of greater meaning when it comes to the LSU game. That game has been a solid L on the schedule for a long time now. The LSU game is like someone found a long-lost book written by Franz Kafka and H.P. Lovecraft and then turned it into a movie directed by David Lynch (produced by John Carpenter). We lose big, we lose in the last minute, we lose in overtime, we get blown out early, and this year's new surprise ending, we get blown out late.
Here's our scores against LSU since 1991, arranged in order of point differential (the first # are our TWO wins in that time period). Normally for college football to have that much of a losing streak against one team, you either have to be a school named after a rich industrialist, or from a state that begins with 'K'.
Behold, the numerical representation of "Abandon all Hope":
-9 *(1991)
-1 *(1999)
2 (1993)
4 (2009)
7 * (2000)
8 (1996)
10 (200
13 *(2011)
15 (1997)
18 (1995)
18 (2002)
20 *(1994)
20 *(2012)
21 *(1992)
22 *(2010)
30 (2005)
31 (2006)
33 (2013)
35 *1998
42 (2001)
45 (2003)
45 *(2007)
51 (2004)
LSU losing seasons are in red, LSU bowl-bound seasons in green, and * indicates when we went to a bowl game (actual years are in white text to the side because I'm a jerk).
Criticisms you might have: you seem like a miserable defeatest status-quo loving SHEEP! Why don't you go root for LSU?
It would be easy. Like most LSU fans, I didn't go to school there (but have family that did). Move back to The Coast, get one of those cool fleur-de-lis/tiger eye stickers for the back of my low-rider truck. Tailgate at LSU games, eat way too much awesome food, get socially acceptably drunk in the middle of the day, watch a beatdown. Who knows, maybe even develop a thinly-disguised man crush on a player. But then who would take that guy seriously?
Plus, nobody enjoys losing (perhaps a hypothetical person throwing 'I'd rather be right than State be good' crap at the wall to see what sticks), it just has a tendency to happen to us every time we line up against LSU.
So, what am I saying? We've gotten absolutely rolled by LSU and made it to bowl games in the past. We've gotten beat soundly by them and not made a bowl game. We'll know in December.
But by all means, keep shoehorning inevitable LSU losses into screeds against coaches.
Plus, I think that our games against Auburn and Arkansas are better representations of how a season has/will pan out (maybe even this one...).
Now I'm returning to smart-assed only tangentially related to sports responses mode.
I don't understand people who are looking to divine some sort of greater meaning when it comes to the LSU game. That game has been a solid L on the schedule for a long time now. The LSU game is like someone found a long-lost book written by Franz Kafka and H.P. Lovecraft and then turned it into a movie directed by David Lynch (produced by John Carpenter). We lose big, we lose in the last minute, we lose in overtime, we get blown out early, and this year's new surprise ending, we get blown out late.
Here's our scores against LSU since 1991, arranged in order of point differential (the first # are our TWO wins in that time period). Normally for college football to have that much of a losing streak against one team, you either have to be a school named after a rich industrialist, or from a state that begins with 'K'.
Behold, the numerical representation of "Abandon all Hope":
-9 *(1991)
-1 *(1999)
2 (1993)
4 (2009)
7 * (2000)
8 (1996)
10 (200
13 *(2011)
15 (1997)
18 (1995)
18 (2002)
20 *(1994)
20 *(2012)
21 *(1992)
22 *(2010)
30 (2005)
31 (2006)
33 (2013)
35 *1998
42 (2001)
45 (2003)
45 *(2007)
51 (2004)
LSU losing seasons are in red, LSU bowl-bound seasons in green, and * indicates when we went to a bowl game (actual years are in white text to the side because I'm a jerk).
Criticisms you might have: you seem like a miserable defeatest status-quo loving SHEEP! Why don't you go root for LSU?
It would be easy. Like most LSU fans, I didn't go to school there (but have family that did). Move back to The Coast, get one of those cool fleur-de-lis/tiger eye stickers for the back of my low-rider truck. Tailgate at LSU games, eat way too much awesome food, get socially acceptably drunk in the middle of the day, watch a beatdown. Who knows, maybe even develop a thinly-disguised man crush on a player. But then who would take that guy seriously?
Plus, nobody enjoys losing (perhaps a hypothetical person throwing 'I'd rather be right than State be good' crap at the wall to see what sticks), it just has a tendency to happen to us every time we line up against LSU.
So, what am I saying? We've gotten absolutely rolled by LSU and made it to bowl games in the past. We've gotten beat soundly by them and not made a bowl game. We'll know in December.
But by all means, keep shoehorning inevitable LSU losses into screeds against coaches.
Plus, I think that our games against Auburn and Arkansas are better representations of how a season has/will pan out (maybe even this one...).
Now I'm returning to smart-assed only tangentially related to sports responses mode.
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