Oh yea I remember this game, I was watching it with an Ohio St. fan in Yuma AZ while I was in the Marine Corps. It was a great game untill the end but being on the West Coast I didn't get to see many LSU games at all so I was happy to see my Tigers play. Does anyone remember the year before (I think) we played them at home to a tie (13-13 ?). I remember that Ohio St. did not want to come out first and LSU was waiting them out, the announcers were having a ball with the delay on National TV.
I remeber that au/uga 2002 game. I was sitting with my friend in the au student section( it was so cold). The student section was rocking, if Au would win they would have won the sec west. When AU stopped UGA with only 3 minutes left the aubies was chanting atl, atl, atl. Then uga defense stopped the aubies and then uga got the ball back and scored on 4 and 15. The abuies were so upset there were people crying and everything. IT was almost as sweet as an LSU victory.
http://www.collegefootballnews.com/Almanac/100_Best_College_Football_Finishes_50_41.htm No LSU with 60 down...
31-40, still no LSU games. . . although i find it interesting that LSU has been mentioned 8 times for dealing losses or ties in week preceding to the teams mentioned. . . not a bad percentage. . .
http://www.collegefootballnews.com/Almanac/100_Best_College_Football_Finishes_30_21.htm LSU at number 25... "No. 25 LSU 17 ... Ole Miss 16, November 4, 1972 At the time: No. 6 LSU was 6-0 and on a ten-game wining streak against an Ole Miss team that broke a three-game losing streak with a 31-7 win over Vanderbilt for a 4-3 record. This was supposed to be a walk in the park for the Tigers with the big game against Alabama coming up the following week. The setup: LSU had a hard time getting going down 16-10 early in the fourth quarter as Rebel QB Norris Weese ran for a touchdown and Steve Lavinghouze kicked three field goals. Coming in for a fourth field goal attempt, Lavinghouze missed a 27-yarder that would've put Ole Miss up 19-10. Tiger QB Bert Jones took long sack trying to convert on fourth down and Ole Miss appeared to have things wrapped up. But the Rebel offense couldn't do anything from the LSU 45 and gave the ball back to Jones on his own 20 with just over three minutes to play. The ending: Jones started off the drive with a long completion, but he faced a fourth and one in Ole Miss territory. A six-yard pickup gave the Tigers the first down, but the clock was quickly ticking down. With ten seconds to play, LSU had it on the Ole Miss 20. The Rebels were nailed with a pass interference call putting it on the ten with four seconds to play. With what appeared to be one final chance, Jones misfired on a throw to the end zone, but miraculously, the Death Valley clock showed one second to play. The celebrating, and stunned, Rebels had to gear up for one more play. Jones looked at his three receivers, but the play was called for his running back, Brad Davis, to run out of the backfield and to the back of the end zone. Jones didn't look at Davis until the last second so the play could develop, but he threw a duck. It got to Davis, who had a hard time seeing the ball in the lights, bobbled it, and was knocked out of bounds. The official signaled touchdown triggering a mass of Tiger fans running on the field with the extra point still to come. Several minutes later, Rusty Jackson hit the extra point for the 17-16 win. How they ended up: Ole Miss never got over the clock gaffe as the 1973 media guide read Ole Miss 16, LSU 10+7. The following week, the Tigers lost 35-21 to Alabama. They ended the year with a 24-17 loss to Tennessee in the Bluebonnet Bowl to finish 9-2-1 ranking 11th in the AP and 10th in the UPI. Ole Miss split its final two games to finish 5-5."
Earthquake game at 15. Bluegrass Miracle at 11. If it's 11, i'm not sure we'll crack the top 10. http://www.collegefootballnews.com/Almanac/100_Best_College_Football_Finishes_20_11.htm No. 15 LSU 7 ... Auburn 6, October 8, 1988 At the time: Auburn was 4-0 after dominating its first four games by a total of 161 to 44. LSU was 2-2, but had blown out Tennessee and Texas A&M before losing to Ohio State and Florida. The setup: It was the ultimate defensive battle with each offense failing to do much of anything. Auburn's attack, which was averaging over 40 points per game, could only manage two field goals for a 6-0 lead late in the game. The Tigers had a few chances with Eddie Fuller dropping a touchdown catch in the fourth quarter. LSU QB Tommy Hodson finally moved the ball enough to get down to the Auburn ten with 1:41 to play. The ending: Hodson was able to finally get the attack moving with a key first down to TE Willie Williams and getting good play from the offensive line. On the Auburn 11, Fuller came up with a catch in the back of the end zone, but he was out of bounds. Eventually faced with a 4th and nine, LSU didn't even think about the field goal and the onside kick considering the offense had struggled so much against the loaded Auburn defense. Hodson dropped back and found Eddie Fuller in the seam. This time, the Tiger receiver hung on to tie it 6-6 causing the Death Valley crowd of 79,341 fans to go so ballistic that they caused a tremor that was registered by the LSU Geology Departments seismograph. At precisely 9:32 p.m., the LSU fans literally rocked the world. David Browndyke nailed the extra point for the 7-6 lead. Auburn had one final drive, but the LSU defense came up with the stop. How they ended up: LSU would finish the season a 8-4, but it won the SEC title before losing 23-10 in Syracuse in the Hall of Fame Bowl ending up 19th in the AP poll. The earthquake play might have prevented Auburn from playing for the national title. Auburn won its remaining six games giving up a total of 31 points in the process. If Auburn had beaten LSU, it most likely would've faced Notre Dame for the national championship. Instead, it played Florida State in the Sugar Bowl losing 13-7 as Deion Sanders picked off a late pass in the end zone to finish 8th in the AP and 7th in the UPI poll. No. 11 LSU 33 ... Kentucky 30, November 9, 2002 At the time: Kentucky was having a strong season under head coach Guy Morriss with a 6-3 record. LSU bounced back after an opening day loss to Virginia Tech to crank out six straight wins before losing to Auburn 31-7. The setup: It was a game of big plays. Kentucky started off the scoring with a 43-yard touchdown pass to Aaron Boone, but Devery Henderson came up with touchdown grabs of 70 and 30 yards in the second quarter for a 14-7 Tiger halftime lead. The haymakers kept on coming as LSU's Joseph Addai tore off a 63-yard touchdown run on the first drive of the second half, but UK's Jared Lorenzen led the Wildcats back with three of his four touchdown passes in the second half including a 44-yard pass to Boone to tie the game at 27 with 2:24 to play. The ending: On the ensuing kickoff, LSU got the ball on its own 19 and did nothing suffering a sack and two plays that didn't go anywhere. A lousy Donnie Jones punt and an 18-yard return by Derek Abney gave the Wildcats the ball on the LSU 39 with 1:07 to play. An LSU penalty and a nine-yard Artose Pinner run put UK well into field goal range, and a two-yard Lorenzen sneak set it up perfectly for a 29-yard Taylor Begley field goal and a 30-27 lead with just :11 remaining. LSU was dead as a penalty on the kickoff put the ball on the Tiger nine. QB Marcus Randall hit Michael Clayton for a 17-yard pass to get out to the 26, but only two seconds remained. Wildcat fans were celebrating, and Morriss was even doused with Gatorade while fireworks popped from the scoreboard. LSU gave it a shot anyway. Randall faded back and heaved a throw as far as he could. Meanwhile, UK fans stormed one end zone and jumped on the goalposts. It looked like the Wildcats were in a position to intercept the pass, but the ball was tipped, and then tipped again into the arms of Henderson at the 20. The Wildcats had one last chance, but Derrick Tatum missed on a diving attempt. Henderson got to the end zone completing one of the most miraculous plays in college football history. On the day, Henderson caught five passes for 201 yards and three touchdowns. How they ended up: LSU couldn't sustain the momentum getting blasted 31-0 by Alabama the following week and lost three of its final four games including a 35-20 loss to Texas in the Cotton Bowl to finish 8-5. Kentucky alternated a win with a loss the rest of the way out to finish 7-5.
About the earthquake game, that's interesting: If Auburn had beaten LSU, it most likely would've faced Notre Dame for the national championship.
Yeah, I didn't know that myself. An interesting trend: a good Auburn team has its game against LSU decided by a single point...and they *just miss* having a chance to play for the national championship. If the Bluegrass Miracle could only muster an #11 spot, I think LSU's done for this contest. Cal/Stanford has to be #1, IMO.
