re: Why did Auburn and Ole Miss play so infrequently before expansion?

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Is that why we didn't play LSU in Oxford for like 28 years?

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Yes. The easiest way to get from BR to Oxford was via train....which was a pain in the arse.

Then(1920)


Now




My understanding is they would take two trains to Baton Rouge.....one for the team/staff and boosters...and one for students.

I've heard some fun assed stories about the student train.

The road by the stadium was the railroad all the way up until late 90's-early 2000's. Can't remember exactly when they did that.

My all time favorite moment was playing LSU in the late 90's...the SEZ mirrored the NEZ exactly so it left each corner of the stadium open. It was obviously a night game and between the 3rd and forth quarter, they played "In the Air Tonight" over the PA. I was sitting midway up the West side and right before that epic drum breakdown....a small but thick cloud of fog rolled off the railroad tracks(which were a lot lower then...they raised the surface a lot to build the road)..anyways... It came from the railroad tracks, entered the stadium via the Northeast corner of the stadium....crossed midfield right in the middle of the drum breakdown...and exited via the Southwest corner of the stadium. You wanna talk about goosebumps.



MSU fans get pissy when I say that I consider the LSU/MSU game a bigger rivalry for me and that I love it so much...This is probably the first reason why I say that.