Rarely if ever have LSU’s postseason prospects been as scattered as they are with two weeks to go in the regular season.
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Tua Tagovailoa
The Tigers and Owls have met more frequently in the NCAA baseball tournament than in football the past couple of decades. Saturday’s game marks their first meeting in football since 1995, though long-time LSU fans will recall the Tigers used to fa…
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Summary: The spread for LSU’s bowl projections has narrowed more than at any point this season, though not necessarily in a bad way. Not unless you want to see the Tigers in the Sugar Bowl, that is. Of 16 national bowl projections polled by The Ad…
Monday, November 12, 2018
Never have I covered an LSU football season where sliding was such an issue.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Scott Rabalais' AP Top 25 for Nov. 11: Chaos takes a holiday, and the rankings reflect little change
The Advocate’s Scott Rabalais is a member of the 2018 Associated Press college football poll voting panel. Here is his ballot after Week 11:
Saturday, November 10, 2018
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — There is a small hamlet just north of here called Accident.
Friday, November 09, 2018
1. Accentuate the positive
The enormous sound and fury that gradually faded away during the Alabama game seemed to signal the end of the meaningful part of the LSU football schedule and the beginning of a string to be played out.
Thursday, November 08, 2018
LSU and Arkansas have had been engaging in border skirmishes since way back in 1901. The Tigers lead the series 39-22-2, are 16-10 against the Razorbacks since Arkansas joined the SEC in 1992 and have won five of the last seven. Here’s a look back…
Tua Tagovailoa
Wednesday, November 07, 2018
Summary: Though LSU predictably tumbled out of the College Football Playoff top-four rankings after its 29-0 wipeout by No. 1 Alabama, the Tigers did not fall so far that they will need help to make a New Year’s Six bowl if they can finish 10-2. A…
Tuesday, November 06, 2018
You could probably hear the gasps of surprise when LSU emerged at No. 7 in this week’s College Football Playoff rankings.
There were times Tuesday night when the LSU Lady Tigers struggled to get off to the kind of start they would have liked in their season opener against Sam Houston State.
Monday, November 05, 2018
Some questions amid the rubble of LSU’s 29-0 loss Saturday to No. 1 Alabama:
Sunday, November 04, 2018
The Mercedes-Benz Superdome was rocking, literally rocking. Some 73,000 frenzied Saints worshipers were stomping up and down as Alex Anzalone reached into the highly energized air and pulled out a plum — a Jared Goff interception.
The Advocate's Scott Rabalais is a member of the 2018 Associated Press college football poll voting panel. Here is his ballot after Week 9:
Saturday, November 03, 2018
On a white board in a forlorn corner of a somber LSU locker room, someone left behind the pregame message “60 minutes of hell.”
ESPN issued an apology Saturday to Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey after an appearance by well-known political pundit and LSU fan James Carville on the “College GameDay” show.
Friday, November 02, 2018
“And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead … and he fell on his face to the ground.”
The last seven meetings with Alabama have produced plenty of heartache for the Tigers, but there have also been plenty of stirring LSU victories over the years. Here’s five to remember:
1. Something's gotta give
Thursday, November 01, 2018
Got your face paint and your “Down with Nick Saban” signs ready to go for ESPN’s “College GameDay” appearance at LSU on Saturday morning?
Summary: While the season’s first College Football Playoff rankings have LSU in a semifinal slot at No. 3, it is a reflection of where the Tigers have been rather than a projection of where they are going. Few believe LSU will survive the Alabama …
Tua Tagovailoa
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
College football is where the unexpected is expected.
The LSU Tigers have earned a lofty place in the season’s inaugural College Football Playoff top four.
LSU junior Devin White may have to sit out the first half of the Alabama game, but the folks who present the award for the nation’s top linebacker aren’t discounting him.
Monday, October 29, 2018
It is the chicken-and-egg debate of Saturday’s showdown between No. 4 LSU and No. 1 Alabama:
Sunday, October 28, 2018
The Advocate's Scott Rabalais is a member of the 2018 Associated Press college football poll voting panel. Here is his ballot after Week 9:
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Finally, it’s official: Lee Corso, his headgear and the rest of the “College GameDay” crew are coming back to Baton Rouge.
Tennessee was as ready as it could be.
Friday, October 26, 2018
If you want to see the LSU-Alabama game in person, you had better:
Thursday, October 25, 2018
The LSU Tigers wrapped up their abbreviated open date week practices Thursday with the annual "Tiger Bowl" scrimmage. With helmets and shoulder pads put away until Monday, many players jumped in cars and grabbed plane tickets for a weekend trip ho…
Being that it is open date week for LSU, your friendly neighborhood sports columnist is here to answer some questions from ye olde mailbag.
Tua Tagovailoa
Despite almost uniformly lofty predictions for LSU, none of the 17 bowl projections we list have the Tigers in the College Football Playoff. Probably has a little thing to do with LSU’s game Nov. 3 against No. 1 Alabama. Nine projections have the …
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama inside linebacker Mack Wilson said White's hit on Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald "didn't look like targeting" Wednesday afternoon, during the Crimson Tide's player availability.
The LSU Tigers went outside in full gear for practice Wednesday, but as expected a number of players were absent.
How will LSU replace Devin White in the first half against Alabama?
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
The phone lines have been burned through between Baton Rouge and Birmingham. The billboards have gone up in Birmingham, too, near the too-close-for-comfort-to-the-Alabama-campus headquarters of the Southeastern Conference.
After taking Sunday and Monday off, the No. 4-ranked Tigers went through a “Tell the Truth Monday”-like practice Tuesday, holding a light workout in their indoor facility without helmets or pads.
Monday, October 22, 2018
With two weeks to go until the start of the 2018-19 season, the LSU Tigers continue to build the roster for 2019-20.
This should be Will Wade’s finest hour. In just a year and a half, he has taken an LSU men’s basketball team that went 10-21 two seasons ago to the second round of the NIT, assembled a top-four recruiting class and has his Tigers ranked No. 23 in …
Sunday, October 21, 2018
The Advocate’s Scott Rabalais is a member of the 2018 Associated Press college football poll voting panel. Here is his ballot after Week 8:
Saturday, October 20, 2018
The Mississippi State game. From the beginning of the season, or at least from the time LSU established itself as a player on the national scene, this looked like a potential choking point for an ambitious Tigers team.
1. WHAT WE LEARNED
Friday, October 19, 2018
Tua Tagovailoa
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Even before the fence-jumping, fine-inducing, “Here, Joe Burrow, put this beer hat on to celebrate beating Georgia … woo hoo!” crowd was finally shooed off the Tiger Stadium field last Saturday, LSU’s starting quarterback was talking about the cha…