Alexander was very good, but he got 43 touches for 231 yards rushing against a bad Wyoming team in '78. Plus he played against several bad teams in '77 to get his single season record. I hope Fournette never has to get that many touches on just 1 game.
I was gonna say unfair comparison since it was a different game then. But we're still running the same offense.
Different defenses, Alexander was great, as red states lf7 looks like he will be also but he hasn't done it yet. It's premature to place him in the class with Herschel and beau
It may be premature if you base it only on the stats he has accumulated in his short thus far career. But if you look at the way he runs, the vast improvement from last year to this year and his speed, strength, moves and football instincts he is clearly on the fast track to being mentioned in the same breath as the all timers. The play where he saw Harris about to be sacked and ran behind him and yelled for the ball before ripping off 40 yards on a busted play in a way reminded me of a run Marcus Allen made in the Superbowl.
Rice was a bad team, that's it but it was a Southwest Conference Division I team, not a division II directional school. LSU played 4 ranked teams that year in an 11-game regular season. The others were Indiana, Florida #9, Vanderbilt #18, Kentucky #12, Oregon, Ole Miss, Alabama #2, Miss State, Tulane, and Stanford in the bowl game.
Doesn't look very strong 8-4 1977 LSU: Indiana -5-5-1 (L) Rice 1-10 Vanderbilt 2-9 (0-6 SEC) Oregon 2-9 Ole Miss 5-6 State 5-6 Tulane 3-9 Florida 6-4-1 Bama 11-1 (L) Kentucky 10-1 (L) Stanford 9-3 (L)
Typical Cholly Mac season the last several years he coached, beat the poor teams, lose to the good ones.
