There were lots of big wins. But the two I remember the most were 1966 Cotton Bowl – unranked LSU (7 -3) defeats unbeaten Arkansas 14-7 in a real upset to end Arkansas’ 22 game winning streak. QB Pat Screen along with Billy Masters and Joe Labruzzo led the Tigers. LSU had to lobby hard to even get into the game. What a great win for Coach Mac and his Tigers. Sept. 30, 2000 - 38 -31 overtime win over Tennessee. Between the Knoxville sportswriter article about Death Valley not being a big deal and LSU’s dismal record the prior year, I'll always remember this as a signature win of Nick's first LSU team. Folks here in Memphis didn’t think the Tigers had a chance. ldskule:
Everyone is right about the recent big wins, so I'll go old school. 1959 LSU 7 Ole Miss 3 1963 Cotton Bowl win over #1 ranked Texas Longhorns. 1966 Cotton Bowl LSU 14 Arkansas 7, breaking their 22 game win streak. LSU was written about in the national press as "unworthy" to play the unbeaten, untied Razorbacks (Jerry Jones played on the o-line on that team). 1969 LSU 21 Auburn 20 1971 LSU 28 Notre Dame 8 My biggest win pick, LSU over Oklahoma in 2004 Sugar Bowl for the national championship. This put the program on a different level, IMO.
If we are talking about most exciting win, then there are countless good choices--although it would be hard to top the Morris homerun. But, if we're talking about the biggest win, at least in recent memory, it would have to be the NCG against Oklahoma. Like the previous poster said, it took us to a different level. Thankfully we've been able to sustain that success, and it appears the end isn't coming soon.
that's definitely my favorite since I was there but this win over Bama after 11 straight losses is a close 2nd: (as told by DandyDon) [SIZE=-1] 1982 LSU 20 Alabama 10 UNTHINKABLE! was the headline the next day in the New Orleans Times Picayune the next day. In what Alabama coach, Paul Bear Bryant, would call their worst whipping since the 60's, LSU marched into Legion Field in Birmingham and left with a 20-10 victory, which did not tell the true story of LSU's dominance that November day in 1982. LSU jumped out early on Dalton Hilliard's 16 yard run. Malcom Scott added a touchdown reception and Alabama fumbled the following kickoff. The Tigers added a field goal for 17-0 halftime lead. The Tide did not even manage a first down in the 1st half. Bama kicked a field goal early in the 3rd quarter and Dalton Hilliard fumbled on LSU's next possession, which Alabama converted for a quick touchdown pass. Just like that it was 17-10, but LSU bounced back and drove down and added a field goal and then dominated the rest of the game to take the win. Bear Bryant talked of retirement after this and would call it quits after this season. He would die of a heart attack in January of 1983. LSU moved into the Top Ten after this game, but it would be short lived as they lost the following week in Starkville, Mississippi to Mississippi State 27-24. [/SIZE]
I'll go with that also. Not only the implications and turning point but the 4th down conversions, the atmosphere, first game for Mike VI....oh, and 129.8 decibels-loudest ever in Tiger Stadium? maybe in college football.
this is a list where a young guy like me doesn't have to feel like a homer by picking all the recent games, because: LSU football success last 5 years > LSU football success every other year combined so with that said, I will stretch it a little further out and go with the Sugar Bowl win against Illinois. Florida in 1997 did nothing for me, because the team lost the next week at home to Ole Miss and then had bad years in 1998 and 1999. The Illinois win was a thumping on national TV and showed the world that LSU was indeed a BCS winning school
About the same things that Miami and Notre Dame have done since the bowl beat downs the Tigers issued them!:LSU231::geaux::LSU231:
1966 Cotton Bowl (Arkansas) -- huge upset win for Cholly Mac. 2003 Georgia -- After this game we knew that "this could be the year".
