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.
Does LSU need divine intervention to end its eight-game losing streak to Alabama?
This season’s first College Football Playoff rankings will be released Tuesday night on ESPN between games of the State Farm Champions Classic men’s basketball doubleheader (about 8 p.m.). It will be the starting point in a late-season sprint culm…
Charles Dickens would have felt at home writing about the 2018-19 LSU basketball season.
The TPC Louisiana, home to the Zurich Classic, opened Wednesday after undergoing nearly $2 million in renovations.
What was a trickle has become a deluge. First one, then two, then three bowl projections had LSU in the College Football Playoff. This week, LSU’s win over Auburn coupled with Oklahoma’s shocking loss at Kansas State have all the bowl projections …
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — LSU senior forward Ayana Mitchell was named Tuesday to Southeastern Conference coaches preseason all-conference team, the SEC office announced.
There are those rare occasions when the sequel is considered better than the original:
So what does it mean for LSU to be ranked No. 1 in this week’s Associated Press poll?
As soon as Murray gathered the pass from Drew Brees in his hands in the right flat, he knew this might finally be the one.
Sometimes you can’t win with the grace and ruthless efficiency as LSU has done most of this season.
When it comes to the LSU-Auburn rivalry, if a game doesn't have or isn't worthy of a nickname it must not have been that great. The issue with this series is not to find five memorable games, but which thrilling games to leave out. These five made…
'Tis the season for scary things with Halloween less than a week away (a Jack-o’-lantern carved in the likeness of Nick Saban’s face, anyone?).
More than halfway through the regular season, the race for college football's most prestigious award is taking shape. Here are the leading contenders right now.
Notes on a golf scorecard while wondering what I’m doing inside writing on the most beautiful day of the fall instead of losing golf balls hither and yon …
LSU picks up a third College Football Playoff projection this week going into its showdown with Auburn. The primary reason: the high ankle sprain and surgery for Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, according to Brett McMurphy of WatchStadium.com. …
LSU football players and coaches have to be laser-focused on Saturday’s looming showdown with yet another top-10 opponent, No. 9-ranked Auburn in Tiger Stadium.
STARKVILLE, Miss. — Chauncey Rivers. Remember the name. Because the Mississippi State defensive end may have slowed down Joe Burrow for one play — but for the rest of the afternoon, LSU’s offense was still cooking. No ifs, ands or …
LSU fans may regard Alabama, Florida or Texas A&M as a bigger rival, but the Tigers have played no football foe more often than Mississippi State. Saturday’s game (2:30 p.m., CBS) marks the 113th meeting between the Tigers and Bulldogs, with L…
Somewhere in my attic, amid the holiday decorations and a copy of an old Rand McNally road atlas, there is a maroon cowbell my wife and I got as a wedding present 30 years ago.
Writers compiling bowl projections are slowly coming around to the idea that LSU could be a national semifinal contender. Most are still clinging to their original four picks in the College Football Playoff: Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Oklaho…
The midway point of a season is time to take stock, reassess, judge where a team and its players and coaches have come from and try to figure out where they’re going.
Advocate columnist Scott Rabalais rounds up the Heisman Trophy chatter on these standout college football players heading into Week 8 of the season.
The LSU Tigers are trending like a Kardashian who just endorsed a new eyelash conditioner.
Paratroopers dropping out of the cool October sky. A full moon rising silently over a sold-out Tiger Stadium.
During his time at LSU, former All-American linebacker Bradie James had to bury both of his parents.
LSU is bringing back its three national championship quarterbacks — Warren Rabb, Matt Mauck and Matt Flynn — to serve as honorary game captains this week. A championship garnish on top of the feast that is this classic Saturday night showdown in T…
The first College Football Playoff rankings don’t come out until Nov. 5, the Tuesday before the LSU-Alabama game. The national semifinals don’t come until Dec. 28 in the Fiesta and Peach bowls, from which two teams will emerge to play for the nati…
LSU’s 42-6 exhibition game-like win over Utah State resulted in little change in the Tigers’ bowl projections, though the Cotton Bowl has crept back into the picture thanks to a lone projection by ESPN’s Mark Schlabach. SI.com’s Michael Shapiro co…
LSU fans may think it unfair that their Tigers have to play Florida every season as their cross-divisional Southeastern Conference opponent. But truth be known, the Tigers and Gators have met every year since 1971, long before the SEC had division…