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re: Who is LSU’s Biggest Rival?
Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:55 am to ManBearSharkReb
Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:55 am to ManBearSharkReb
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Who is LSU’s Biggest Rival?
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Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:57 am to ManBearSharkReb
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No idea who you are but if ole miss wins Saturday that will be 2 of the last 3 games going to the Rebs.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 9:58 am to ManBearSharkReb
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Does Tulane regularly beat LSU?
Does ole miss?
Since 1990 the series record is 21-11 in favor of LSU
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:00 am to ManBearSharkReb
quote:Print the cups.
…if ole miss wins Saturday that will be 2 of the last 3 games going to the Rebs.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:04 am to ManBearSharkReb
Since I'm much older than most of you little munchkins on here (yes, alive when The Ten Commandments were given to Moses), I have followed college football since my very first game: 1960, Georgia @ USC in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Trojans winning, 10-3
I remember when Ole Miss ruled the SEC....they and Oklahoma ruled college football pretty much in the 1950s and Ole Miss went on into the 60s being a powerhouse....they were voted #1 national champions 3 times by different polls (1959, '60, '62)....Johnny Vaught was it!
That LSU-Ole Miss game of 1959 was something else! The storylines went like this:
In the 7th game of the season LSU faced its sternest test—undefeated Ole Miss on Halloween in Tiger Stadium. That game between No. 1 LSU and No. 3 Ole Miss was touted as 1959's "Game of the Year."
Ole Miss held a 3–0 lead until the 4th quarter, often punting on first down due to the very wet conditions on the field. With about 10 minutes left in the game, Ole Miss punted and Billy Cannon took the punt at the LSU 11. Cannon charted a course along the Ole Miss sidelines, weaving between Rebel defenders, eluding tacklers, and racing towards the goal line for an 89 yard punt return touchdown.
Ole Miss then started a determined drive and marched down to the two yard line where it was 4th and goal with 18 seconds left. Ole Miss quarterback Doug Elmore was stopped at the one by Cannon and his teammates to ensure the 7–3 victory. However, the next week, LSU lost its next SEC game against Tennessee at Knoxville, 14–13, when Cannon's attempt at a 2 pt conversion failed. The loss not only cost LSU a shot as repeating as national champion, it also denied them the SEC championship, which went to the Georgia Bulldogs, and ended a 19-game win streak—the longest in school history—that started in the last game of 1957.
The Tigers defeated Mississippi State and Tulane to finish the season 9–1, and they were ranked No. 3 in the nation behind No. 1 Syracuse and No. 2 Ole Miss.
In the meantime Billy Cannon won the Heisman Trophy by one of the widest margins in the history of the trophy balloting at the time. The Tigers were invited to play in the Sugar Bowl, and their opponent was Ole Miss, in a rematch.
At first Paul Dietzel, LSU's coach, was not anxious to replay the Rebels, but he was persuaded to do so by the athletic director, Jim Corbett. By the time January 1 came, three LSU star players were injured, including quarterback Warren Rabb, and halfbacks Wendell Harris and Johnny Robinson. The Tigers were soundly beaten by the Rebels, 21–0, and were outgained 373–74.
The Ole Miss-LSU rivalry began to taper off in the 1970s....Ole Miss' decline was due to several factors: Vaught's retirement, race relations image, other things.
Historically, LSU's biggest rival and Ole Miss' biggest rival have been each other. Over the past 50 years, it began to take a back seat to LSU-Alabama in terms of hate and intensity. But, I prefer the good 'ol days when men were men and women were women and the uniqueness of the pageantry of college football was at its grandest. Ole Miss-LSU was part of that!
Ole Miss 1962 National Championship rings
I remember when Ole Miss ruled the SEC....they and Oklahoma ruled college football pretty much in the 1950s and Ole Miss went on into the 60s being a powerhouse....they were voted #1 national champions 3 times by different polls (1959, '60, '62)....Johnny Vaught was it!
That LSU-Ole Miss game of 1959 was something else! The storylines went like this:
In the 7th game of the season LSU faced its sternest test—undefeated Ole Miss on Halloween in Tiger Stadium. That game between No. 1 LSU and No. 3 Ole Miss was touted as 1959's "Game of the Year."
Ole Miss held a 3–0 lead until the 4th quarter, often punting on first down due to the very wet conditions on the field. With about 10 minutes left in the game, Ole Miss punted and Billy Cannon took the punt at the LSU 11. Cannon charted a course along the Ole Miss sidelines, weaving between Rebel defenders, eluding tacklers, and racing towards the goal line for an 89 yard punt return touchdown.
Ole Miss then started a determined drive and marched down to the two yard line where it was 4th and goal with 18 seconds left. Ole Miss quarterback Doug Elmore was stopped at the one by Cannon and his teammates to ensure the 7–3 victory. However, the next week, LSU lost its next SEC game against Tennessee at Knoxville, 14–13, when Cannon's attempt at a 2 pt conversion failed. The loss not only cost LSU a shot as repeating as national champion, it also denied them the SEC championship, which went to the Georgia Bulldogs, and ended a 19-game win streak—the longest in school history—that started in the last game of 1957.
The Tigers defeated Mississippi State and Tulane to finish the season 9–1, and they were ranked No. 3 in the nation behind No. 1 Syracuse and No. 2 Ole Miss.
In the meantime Billy Cannon won the Heisman Trophy by one of the widest margins in the history of the trophy balloting at the time. The Tigers were invited to play in the Sugar Bowl, and their opponent was Ole Miss, in a rematch.
At first Paul Dietzel, LSU's coach, was not anxious to replay the Rebels, but he was persuaded to do so by the athletic director, Jim Corbett. By the time January 1 came, three LSU star players were injured, including quarterback Warren Rabb, and halfbacks Wendell Harris and Johnny Robinson. The Tigers were soundly beaten by the Rebels, 21–0, and were outgained 373–74.
The Ole Miss-LSU rivalry began to taper off in the 1970s....Ole Miss' decline was due to several factors: Vaught's retirement, race relations image, other things.
Historically, LSU's biggest rival and Ole Miss' biggest rival have been each other. Over the past 50 years, it began to take a back seat to LSU-Alabama in terms of hate and intensity. But, I prefer the good 'ol days when men were men and women were women and the uniqueness of the pageantry of college football was at its grandest. Ole Miss-LSU was part of that!
Ole Miss 1962 National Championship rings
This post was edited on 9/28/23 at 10:34 am
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:06 am to ManBearSharkReb
quote:Reasonable expectations.
Who is LSU’s Biggest Rival?
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:11 am to NFLSU
:)
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:15 am to REBEL5 AC
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You can always tell who the real LsU fans are by asking that question. Real fans know it’s Ole Miss. bandwagon think Bama
Absolutely correct! Well put!
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:15 am to ManBearSharkReb
Has to be Ole Miss since LSU fans keep storming their own field despite supposedly not caring.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:18 am to BayouBengal21
LSU doesn't really have a rival.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:19 am to ManBearSharkReb
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And why is it Ole Miss?
Yes 50 years ago it was Old Miss
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:20 am to ManBearSharkReb
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Who is LSU’s Biggest Rival?
Tulane
Who is LSU’s Biggest Rival?
Tulane
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:21 am to ManBearSharkReb
Cause we HATE y’all! GTHOM!
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:22 am to ManBearSharkReb
I've actually always wondered this. Is it Ole Miss or Alabama or Arkansas?
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:30 am to ManBearSharkReb
LSU doesn’t have a single “biggest rival” year in and year out the way other teams do. Instead there’s a stable of a few contenders for that role which rotates depending on how strong their programs are.
So for right now, for instance? It’s clearly Alabama, though that might taper off in the years to come if LSU-Alabama is no longer an annual game.
That doesn’t mean Alabama reciprocates either of course. Just that if you’re judging by LSU fans’ perspective—and why would anyone else’s matter?—it’s clearly Alabama.
Arkansas and Ole Miss and Texas A&M want to be LSU’s biggest rival because we are an important rival to them (the biggest rival for Arkansas and A&M, at least until Texas arrives, and the second biggest to Ole Miss), but the game just isn’t as important to LSU fans year in and year out. I don’t care how that makes those fans feel, it’s just a fact, not a dig.
I would put it at, historically,
1. Alabama/Auburn/Florida
2. Texas A&M/Arkansas/Ole Miss
and right now specifically,
1. Alabama
2. Auburn/Florida/Texas A&M
3. Ole Miss/Arkansas
E: You could think of LSU as the Notre Dame of the SEC, in that ND and LSU both play huge games every year that are undoubtedly rivalries, but they’re never THE #1 rival of their opponents in those big games. LSU-Alabama is kind of like ND-Michigan or ND-USC (although I guess it’s debatable whether ND is actually USC’s top rival or not). Meanwhile LSU is undoubtedly the biggest game on the schedule to perennial afterthoughts like Ole Miss and Arkansas, just like ND is the biggest game on the schedule for perennial afterthoughts such as Navy and Stanford.
So for right now, for instance? It’s clearly Alabama, though that might taper off in the years to come if LSU-Alabama is no longer an annual game.
That doesn’t mean Alabama reciprocates either of course. Just that if you’re judging by LSU fans’ perspective—and why would anyone else’s matter?—it’s clearly Alabama.
Arkansas and Ole Miss and Texas A&M want to be LSU’s biggest rival because we are an important rival to them (the biggest rival for Arkansas and A&M, at least until Texas arrives, and the second biggest to Ole Miss), but the game just isn’t as important to LSU fans year in and year out. I don’t care how that makes those fans feel, it’s just a fact, not a dig.
I would put it at, historically,
1. Alabama/Auburn/Florida
2. Texas A&M/Arkansas/Ole Miss
and right now specifically,
1. Alabama
2. Auburn/Florida/Texas A&M
3. Ole Miss/Arkansas
E: You could think of LSU as the Notre Dame of the SEC, in that ND and LSU both play huge games every year that are undoubtedly rivalries, but they’re never THE #1 rival of their opponents in those big games. LSU-Alabama is kind of like ND-Michigan or ND-USC (although I guess it’s debatable whether ND is actually USC’s top rival or not). Meanwhile LSU is undoubtedly the biggest game on the schedule to perennial afterthoughts like Ole Miss and Arkansas, just like ND is the biggest game on the schedule for perennial afterthoughts such as Navy and Stanford.
This post was edited on 9/28/23 at 10:35 am
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:39 am to ManBearSharkReb
It's Ole Miss. It goes beyond the football field. It's a rivalry of cultures.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:40 am to ManBearSharkReb
During my 8 years living in Mississippi I personally developed a hatred for all of the pretentious douche bags that attended Ole Miss and just really wanted to beat the shite out of yall.
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:41 am to ManBearSharkReb
Alcoholics Anonymous
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:44 am to OKBoomerSooner
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OKBoomerSooner
Did you post this under the wrong account?
Posted on 9/28/23 at 10:48 am to mtb010
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During my 8 years living in Mississippi I personally developed a hatred for all of the pretentious douche bags that attended Ole Miss and just really wanted to beat the shite out of yall.
This is a widely held sentiment, and it is why Ole Miss is LSU’s biggest rival.
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