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SJS's best showing against the SEC was in 1999 against the LSU Tigers.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:52 pm
On Oct 4, 1999, San Jose State went down to Death Valley to play in a 'body bag' game with LSU. I think we were 42 point underdogs, at least. For the most part, we had mediocre players half the size of LSU's players. But my boys were determined to make their mark that day, and we had a 'secret weapon': Deonce Whitaker. Deonce was a 5' 7" back who was extremely talented. He was so small he'd hide behind his lead blocker and then suddenly make a cut off his backside and go for some serious yards. Well, the game started off in typical fashion with 100,000 or so screaming LSU fans wanting to draw blood first:
1st 03:35 LSU - Rondell Mealey 27 yd run (Danny Boyd kick), 4-63 2:18, SJSU 0 - LSU 7
2nd 12:22 LSU - Fred Booker 50 yd interception return (Danny Boyd kick), , SJSU 0 - LSU 14
04:26 LSU - Danny Boyd 20 yd field goal, 6-16 2:36, SJSU 0 - LSU 17
We were on the verge of getting blown out having followed the script of an true underdog when Deonce suddenly figured out how to beat the single safety high. He made one cut off his lead blocker and was staring down the safety who waited to apply a punishing hit, when Deonce juked him out of his cleats, went 80 yards for the score. Nobody had done that to LSU that year or in recent memory. Suddenly the LSU fans went quiet. They were so surpised, they didn't know whether to cheer for him or start throwing stuff, it happened so suddenly. Even the SJS radio broadcaster sounded incredulous at what he had just witnessed.
04:03 SJSU - Whitaker, D. 80 yd run (Morgan, T. kick), 1-80 0:23, SJSU 7 - LSU 17
We went on to lose that day 29-20 and Deonce racked up 169 yards rushing on the vaunted LSU defense. He would later in his career be nominated as a Heismann trophy candidate with over 1,600 yards rushing in 2000. The LSU fans gave him a healthy cheer when the game was finally over, having seen how hard my California boys had played them that day, but it was a loss of us, nonetheless, and most of the players were disappointed we hadn't won.
I often think about that game, and would like to remind Auburn fans, that despite this game being heavily in your favor, that my boys have no quit in them and will give a good account of themselves on Saturday. Please show them the respect they deserve for their performance and may the best team win.
Here were the final stats of that 1999 SJS/LSU match-up:
SJSU LSU
FIRST DOWNS................... 16 18
RUSHES-YARDS (NET)............ 38-189 35-190
PASSING YDS (NET)............. 188 157
Passes Att-Comp-Int........... 39-21-4 25-12-2
TOTAL OFFENSE PLAYS-YARDS..... 77-377 60-347
Fumble Returns-Yards.......... 0-0 0-0
Punt Returns-Yards............ 1-0 4-35
Kickoff Returns-Yards......... 1-21 4-94
Interception Returns-Yards.... 2-5 4-120
Punts (Number-Avg)............ 7-44.9 6-37.7
Fumbles-Lost.................. 2-0 3-2
Penalties-Yards............... 4-25 6-35
Possession Time............... 33:06 26:54
Third-Down Conversions........ 7 of 18 2 of 9
Fourth-Down Conversions....... 0 of 1 0 of 0
Red-Zone Scores-Chances....... 2-3 2-3
Sacks By: Number-Yards........ 2-18 5-31
1st 03:35 LSU - Rondell Mealey 27 yd run (Danny Boyd kick), 4-63 2:18, SJSU 0 - LSU 7
2nd 12:22 LSU - Fred Booker 50 yd interception return (Danny Boyd kick), , SJSU 0 - LSU 14
04:26 LSU - Danny Boyd 20 yd field goal, 6-16 2:36, SJSU 0 - LSU 17
We were on the verge of getting blown out having followed the script of an true underdog when Deonce suddenly figured out how to beat the single safety high. He made one cut off his lead blocker and was staring down the safety who waited to apply a punishing hit, when Deonce juked him out of his cleats, went 80 yards for the score. Nobody had done that to LSU that year or in recent memory. Suddenly the LSU fans went quiet. They were so surpised, they didn't know whether to cheer for him or start throwing stuff, it happened so suddenly. Even the SJS radio broadcaster sounded incredulous at what he had just witnessed.
04:03 SJSU - Whitaker, D. 80 yd run (Morgan, T. kick), 1-80 0:23, SJSU 7 - LSU 17
We went on to lose that day 29-20 and Deonce racked up 169 yards rushing on the vaunted LSU defense. He would later in his career be nominated as a Heismann trophy candidate with over 1,600 yards rushing in 2000. The LSU fans gave him a healthy cheer when the game was finally over, having seen how hard my California boys had played them that day, but it was a loss of us, nonetheless, and most of the players were disappointed we hadn't won.
I often think about that game, and would like to remind Auburn fans, that despite this game being heavily in your favor, that my boys have no quit in them and will give a good account of themselves on Saturday. Please show them the respect they deserve for their performance and may the best team win.
Here were the final stats of that 1999 SJS/LSU match-up:
SJSU LSU
FIRST DOWNS................... 16 18
RUSHES-YARDS (NET)............ 38-189 35-190
PASSING YDS (NET)............. 188 157
Passes Att-Comp-Int........... 39-21-4 25-12-2
TOTAL OFFENSE PLAYS-YARDS..... 77-377 60-347
Fumble Returns-Yards.......... 0-0 0-0
Punt Returns-Yards............ 1-0 4-35
Kickoff Returns-Yards......... 1-21 4-94
Interception Returns-Yards.... 2-5 4-120
Punts (Number-Avg)............ 7-44.9 6-37.7
Fumbles-Lost.................. 2-0 3-2
Penalties-Yards............... 4-25 6-35
Possession Time............... 33:06 26:54
Third-Down Conversions........ 7 of 18 2 of 9
Fourth-Down Conversions....... 0 of 1 0 of 0
Red-Zone Scores-Chances....... 2-3 2-3
Sacks By: Number-Yards........ 2-18 5-31
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:53 pm to SJSFan1
LSUs worst team ever. Awesome
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:53 pm to SJSFan1
Interesting, that's the year before LSU started playing football
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:55 pm to SJSFan1
One of the many games that contributed to the end of Dinardo. Sparty on Wayne
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:55 pm to SJSFan1
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and would like to remind Auburn fans, that despite this game being heavily in your favor, that my boys have no quit in them and will give a good account of themselves on Saturday. Please show them the respect they deserve for their performance and may the best team win.
SJSU is a trash university with a trash football team. Just this off season you had one thug piece of shite football player kicked out of school for beating the shite out of his girlfriend and another football player kicked out for hospitalizing his own teammate in a fight.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:56 pm to TexasAg13
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Interesting, that's the year before LSU started playing football
About the same time aggy stopped playing football.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:56 pm to TexasAg13
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Interesting, that's the year before LSU started playing football
That's pretty interesting considering aTm doesn't play football anymore.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:58 pm to Wild Thang
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About the same time aggy stopped playing football.
No that was in the fall of 1995 I believe
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:58 pm to SJSFan1
Dammit. I got 10 bucks on you guys at +20. I need another good performance from yall. Unfortunately, I don't think this is Auburn's worst team in the last 10 years much less ever.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 2:02 pm to SJSFan1
You're bragging about losing to 1999 LSU?
Posted on 10/2/15 at 2:05 pm to TheJones
What does this have to do with anything?
You got beat by one of the worst LSU teams every. So what
You got beat by one of the worst LSU teams every. So what
Posted on 10/2/15 at 2:13 pm to LACountyTiger
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You got beat by one of the worst LSU teams every. So what
"So what?"?
So Arkansas did too, that's what.
Thanks Hal.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 2:16 pm to SJSFan1
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I often think about that game, and would like to remind Auburn fans, that despite this game being heavily in your favor, that my boys have no quit in them and will give a good account of themselves on Saturday. Please show them the respect they deserve for their performance and may the best team win.
Because of this thread, I hope Auburn wins by 100 and spits on your players.
But it will obviously be close because of the time in 1999 when you kept it close with an SEC team.
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