Sometime Monday evening, the three to five finalists who will travel to New York for the 2019 Heisman Trophy ceremony will be announced.
Did the College Football Playoff committee get it right?
ATLANTA — Two Februarys ago, Ed Orgeron returned to his native Larose for a banquet. He made what sounded like an audacious promise:
ATLANTA — The LSU Tigers are going to win this Southeastern Conference Championship Game against Georgia on Saturday.
ATLANTA — Changes in the Southeastern Conference’s football scheduling format, up to and including the current two-division model, aren’t off the table, commissioner Greg Sankey said Friday.
LSU and Georgia meet Saturday for the fourth time in the SEC Championship Game. The Tigers hold a 2-1 edge in those games and 17-13-1 in the series overall. Here’s a look at five memorable games from this rare but impactful series:
With LSU entrenched in the No. 2 spot in the CFP rankings for the second straight week, the bowl projections have now shifted heavily to a Nos. 2-3 matchup between LSU and Clemson. Where remains the big question, with the Peach Bowl putting LSU at…
For a town whose team has yet to make it into the College Football Playoff’s version of the final four, Baton Rouge sure was a grumpy place Tuesday night after the next-to-last CFP rankings were released.
The College Football Playoff committee insists it starts with a clean slate every week.
The holiday season means the postseason for college football.
LSU wrapped up a perfect regular season campaign in Saturday's dominant 50-7 win vs. Texas A&M at Tiger Stadium.
For LSU, this was The Statement Game.
LSU football seasons come and go. So does that all-too-finite collection of six or seven Saturdays each fall when the Tigers play in their eponymous stadium.
LSU and Texas A&M have been playing annually since the Aggies joined the SEC in 2012, but the Tigers and A&M have been tangling for much than that. The series began way back in 1899, with LSU holding a 33-21-3 lead including wins in seven …
Oh, the College Football Playoff committee loves its curveballs, doesn’t it? It looked as though LSU could hold off Ohio State for No. 1 in the CFP rankings, at least for another week, but the Buckeyes returned to No. 1 on Tuesday at the Tigers’ e…
The LSU Tigers got back a key player back Wednesday in the defensive secondary as preparations for Saturday’s regular-season finale against Texas A&M hit full stride.
It is as predictable as Thanksgiving day turkeys — the one on your dinner table and the Detroit Lions on your TV set:
The odds of winning the Heisman Trophy continue to deepen for Joe Burrow, who has gone from 200-to-1 this summer to 1/30 now per an online betting service. Ohio State’ defensive end Chase Young is getting a lot of love from media for whom Burrow h…
At long last, LSU’s resume wasn’t enough to keep the Tigers in front of Ohio State.
If someone told Ed Orgeron and his LSU Tigers on Saturday night after they finished thrashing Arkansas that the Texas A&M game had been moved up to Sunday, I think they would have said, “Let’s go.”
Unless it’s Tom Brady on the other sideline, every game Drew Brees quarterbacks now is against someone younger.
The eye test. Style points. Impressing the CFP selection committee.
For years, the LSU Tigers tried to keep pace on the national stage with their stone age offense while their peers jetted off toward the horizon. Picture Fred Flintstone trying to keep up by pedaling his bare feet off while the Alabamas and Ohio St…
LSU and Arkansas have had been raiding each other across the border since way back in 1901. The Tigers lead the series 40-22-2, are 17-10 against the Razorbacks since Arkansas joined the SEC in 1992 and have won six of the last eight. Here’s a loo…
Notes on a golf scorecard while filling a beautiful fall day with writing and impeachment hearings instead of cursing yet another thinly-bladed 9-iron shot …
For a guy who was 200-to-1 to win the Heisman Trophy this summer, Joe Burrow is a stunningly overwhelming favorite now. BetOnline.ag puts him at 1/20 (-2000), while his nearest challenger is 9/1 (+900). That said, Burrow isn’t home yet. Remember w…
The defense did not look the greatest Saturday against Ole Miss, but the rest of what the LSU Tigers had to offer is still good enough to be the No. 1 team in the country according to the College Football Playoff committee.
You had to give LSU coach Ed Orgeron his props on this particular “Tell the Truth Monday.”
What we learned, what's trending and final thoughts from a cold (and fast) night in Mississippi.
OXFORD, Miss. — LSU passing game coordinator Joe Brady hustled through the end zone like one of his prolific receivers, looking sharp in suit and tie and spectacles as he headed under the Vaught-Hemingway Stadium stands in search of a warm team bus.
The LSU Tigers have reached a new stage in their season.
There isn't another LSU rivalry filled with more memorable games than the Tigers' series with Ole Miss. The ancient rivalry stretches back to 1894, the second year of football for both schools. Finding five memorable games isn't the problem. The p…
Four weeks before the Heisman Trophy is awarded, the race is starting to heat up in a serious way.
Back in the BCS era, when a complex yet well-defined formula of computer rankings and human polls determined the national championship, trying to figure out the two teams that would reach the title game was a pretty scientific process.
Saturday’s 46-41 victory at Alabama basically gives LSU a mulligan in the race for the College Football Playoff. The Tigers, No. 1 in the College Football Playoff rankings, could possibly lose one and still make the national semifinals, especially…
Heisman Trophy oddsmakers took suspended Ohio State defensive end Chase Young off the board this week.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:
The LSU Tigers’ push to be a unanimous No. 1 started Sunday as the Tigers replaced Alabama as the top-ranked team in the USA Today coaches’ poll.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Goodbye, Alabama losing streak.
In the eight years since that inaugural “Game of the Century” between LSU and Alabama, former Tigers center T-Bob Hebert has found the joy of important personal milestones in his life.
It’s Saturday evening, and either LSU or Alabama has just walked off the field in Bryant-Denny Stadium as the winner, moving to 9-0 on the season and likely bound for the No. 1 spot in Tuesday’s second College Football Playoff rankings. A spot tha…
Believe it or not, there was a time when LSU beat Alabama in football. Here are five games Tiger fans can remember fondly, including that last “Game of the Century” back in 2011:
There is a saying: It is the fate of glass to break.
Instead of notes on a golf scorecard, this week let’s dip into ye olde mailbag.
If the regular season ended this week, LSU would play Alabama in a CFP semifinal in the Fiesta Bowl as the No. 2 and 3 seeds per the initial CFP rankings, while No. 1 Ohio State would play No. 4 Penn State in the Peach Bowl since that game is clos…
Five weeks before the Heisman Trophy is awarded, the race is starting to heat up in a serious way.
The College Football Playoff selection committee went with the eyeball test over the résumé when it came to this season’s initial rankings released Tuesday.
High above the court in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, five NCAA Women’s Final Four banners hang from the catwalk.