Tigerpaul1969

Tyrann Mathieu v #3 Arkansas and then v UGA in the title game the following week.

I know this will eventually change, but it is wild to think that no non-Big 6 school has ever won an SEC title game…34 years.

Well, the creator of the show (David Simon) loved New Orleans so much, he created a whole other series about it post Katrina called Treme. One of the main characters of season one played by John Goodman was a professor at Tulane and several times referenced the rivalry between LSU and Tulane.

Even though we’ve won a few recently, they’re almost always battles. This is one of the great unsung series in college football since the early 50s. The only time it got lopsided was when Spurrier was kicking the crap out of us every year to prove a point. I’ve said the same thing about the Auburn series which started in earnest when we went to divisions in 1992.

Two classic series that are going away because of “progress.”

Urban with Tebow at Florida. He burned out fast after Tebow left.

Record without Timmy: 17-8
Record with Timmy: 48-7 with 2 National titles, one Heisman trophy and another unbeaten regular season

Also he had Alex Smith for his two years at Utah and went 22-2.

In researching, it reminded me how dominant he was at OSU: 83-9; 54-4 in the Big 10!

1991-you always remember your first
2009-first post-Bertman title and first under the three game championship format
1996-obvious reasons

I was going to get the Spicoli meme where he says “those guys are figs!” But I’m too lazy.

Can you imagine we had Fournette, Guice, and Williams in the same backfield? I always think of Ed’s first game as interim v Mizzou when Fournette didn’t play and Guice and Williams each ran for 3 TDs.

I was a huge fan of theirs last year. It’s been all sunshine and roses for them the last two years. It will be interesting to see how they do when they lose a few. And this coach seems like a complete douche. When you win, you can be the good sport. You don’t have to prove yourself by acting tough. I have a feeling they’ll return to the mean over the next couple of years.

Is he the next Ponamsky? I’ll always remember listening to morning show then known as Culotta and the Prince when Derek didn’t show up the morning Ed became interim and he left to be his aide de camp. Wouldn’t it be fitting for the other half of that show to help bring LSU basketball a title.

I had to follow up with the actual stats. That season he played seven opponents ranked in the Top 10 at the time of the game. And A&M wasn’t ranked but was a rivalry game against a team who had beaten him the prior year. Here were the averages of those 8 games:

28/38 391 yds 4 TDs 0 INTs (he had 2 in 8 games) 7 carries/53 yds (3 total TDs rushing) Cmp% just under 75%

The remaining 7 games were against 4 SEC opponents (Vandy, Ms St, OM and Arky), Ga So, NWSt, and Utah St. Here were those averages:

25/32 362 yds 4 TDs (over the average, he averaged 0.5 more TDs here than in the above group 3.8 v 4.3) 0.6 INTs (4 total, 2 v OM alone), 4 carries/24 yds (2 total rushing TDs) 78% cmp%