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…
The call on next Saturday's LSU-Mississippi State game: holding.
This is exactly the sort of week that draws fans to LSU football like a Washington State flag to the “College Game Day” mosh pit.
In what has to this point felt like a surreal LSU football season, Saturday’s game with Utah State may have been the most unnatural moment of all.
As far as LSU football is concerned, 11 a.m. seems like a mighty unnatural hour in which to be playing a game. But Saturday’s 11 a.m. kickoff between the Tigers and Utah State reminds us there have been some other pretty memorable LSU football gam…
Maybe it really was nothing. But Ed Orgeron’s body language when he met with the media Thursday in his final pregame gaggle before Saturday’s Utah State tilt didn’t exactly communicate what you think being the leader of the nation’s fifth-ranked t…
Advocate columnist Scott Rabalais rounds up the Heisman Trophy chatter on these standout college football players heading into Week 6 of the season.
LSU senior defensive end Rashard Lawrence’s comeback trail has hit another curve in the road, one that coach Ed Orgeron said would likely keep him out of Saturday’s game against Utah State.
There has been little movement among the top teams in the national rankings, so little surprise that there has not been much movement when it comes to LSU’s bowl projections. Even after an open date dropped LSU from No. 4 to No. 5 in The Associate…
Avery Brundage was uncompromising when it came to amateurism.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Two former LSU Tigers were among those watching Saturday in a state of shock and awe as their former team out relay-raced Vanderbilt 66-38.
In the country music business, Nashville is one of those iconic places where people go to hit it big.
LSU and Vanderbilt have been infrequent SEC rivals. They have met just 30 times since 1902, with the Tigers leading the series 22-7-1, including wins in 11 of their 12 games since 1957. But it has been a highly colorful series at times, as shown b…
Even in the superheated environment that is Southeastern Conference football, it would be out of place to call LSU and Vanderbilt rivals.
Little surprise that LSU’s bowl projections remained basically unchanged after a 65-14 rout Saturday of FCS member Northwestern State. The vast majority continue to project the Tigers in the Sugar Bowl, most of those in a rematch against Texas. SI…
Nick Saban is going into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
Ed Orgeron reached beneath his podium in Tiger Stadium’s Lawton Room on Monday and pulled out an imaginary cellphone.
The LSU offense, averaging a cool 55 points per game, definitely has found its identity.
If you were carving a Mount Rushmore of LSU athletics, whose four faces would be on it?
The LSU Tigers go for their 800th victory Saturday night against Northwestern State.
Where do you come down on the great “AC Gate” debate from last Saturday’s LSU-Texas game?
Joe wants to go, even when given the chance to sit a practice out.
More money, as they say, more problems.
The history of LSU football is its history against in-state opposition. The Tigers very first game was in 1893 in New Orleans, a 34-0 loss to Tulane. Since then LSU has had considerably more success, going a combined 135-25-8 against in-state oppo…
LSU has finally cracked into the College Football Playoff – at least according to one prediction going into week three. SI.com’s Michael Shapiro moved the Tigers into a CFP semifinal appearance in the Fiesta Bowl against Clemson after LSU’s 45-38 …
Ed Orgeron had a vision for what he wanted LSU football to be when he took over as interim coach from Les Miles in 2016.
LSU coach Ed Orgeron said he is hoping to hear “positive” news this week on the legal status of long-suspended Tigers guard Ed Ingram.
AUSTIN, Texas — Heading downstairs to a team meeting Saturday morning, Ed Orgeron ambled up to an elevator full of Texas fans at the LSU team hotel and watched the doors slowly close in his face.
1. WHAT WE LEARNED
This LSU-Texas game is stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey with weighty implications, basting in juicy subplots.
LSU’s season-opening 55-3 romp over Georgia Southern wasn’t enough to push the Tigers’ bowl projections into one of the College Football Playoff semifinal bowls (Fiesta and Peach). But LSU is now a consensus New Year’s Six bowl participant accordi…