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Alabama vs LSU
Painful though it may be, it is my duty to tell you that we must wait a few more days for No. 1 LSU to play No. 2 Alabama.
Both teams are off the week before, which is why the drumbeat around the shore of the Black Warrior River that runs beyond the Tuscaloosa campus already has begun. Tigers coach Les Miles admitted at his media conference after practice Tuesday evening that his team has been hearing the drums for some time.
“It’s been a few weeks there is something laying in the back of the accomplishment of this team that allowed them to get to these days, that allowed them to get to this opponent,” Miles said. “… I do believe this is college football, two great teams squaring off, something to play for. It’s fun.”
Whether there is a way to win the game this week is open to question. But there’s no doubt that either team could lose it. All of the players have to do is drink from the fire hose of excitement and tension that already is gushing.
Alabama coach Nick Saban said as much at a press conference following his team’s practice Tuesday. The challenge he faces, Saban said, is “to get our players not to think about everything that’s surrounding the game. That will be the hardest part.”
The tension will ratchet higher with each passing day all the way to kickoff at Bryant-Denny Stadium shortly after 8 p.m. ET on Nov. 5, which is shortly before we move our clocks back. Congress, in its infinite wisdom, made the longest night of the fall available for the best regular-season game in the last five years.
At least, that’s how I’m sure some member from Louisiana or Alabama will explain it.
The Southeastern Conference, which creates the schedule for its members, takes no credit for nice foresight. The game, senior associate commissioner Mark Womack said, is pretty much a result of dumb luck.
re trying to give guys an open date,” Womack said. “It wasn’t like we said, ‘LSU and Alabama will both be fantastic.’”
Womack added how the league tries not to give any team more than five consecutive conference games without a break. Alabama hit that threshold Saturday when it defeated Tennessee, 36-7. By happenstance, the off week coincides with fall break on the Tuscaloosa campus. There are no classes Thursday and Friday, which increases the feeling of a season intermission.
Saban is a believer that you can never be overprepared. But that does not mean that a couple weeks of practice devoted to LSU is better than one. Most of the time in the three practices this week, Saban said in a phone interview Monday night, will be turned inward.
“Obviously, there are going to be a lot of good players in this game,” Saban said, “and I think a premium suddenly becomes doing things correctly. You will get away with doing them [incorrectly] against somebody who’s not challenging you. Nevertheless they [the Tigers] certainly have enough good athletes to challenge you when it comes to every factor of the game.”
Good players? In the 76 seasons from the AP poll, the top-ranked teams have met only 22 times within the regular season. The LSU-Alabama game will be the first since No. 1 Ohio State edged No. 2 Michigan, 42-39, in 2006. That’s a long time between sequels.
But here’s the cherry on top of this ice cream Saturdae. Of those 22 games, only three have matched teams that both had an off week to prepare.
In 1944, No. 1 Army beat No. 2 Navy, 23-7, in Baltimore, where the game was moved from Annapolis only a couple weeks before kickoff. The academies moved the game to Memorial Stadium to foment the sale of war bonds and raised nearly $59 million.
However, the two weeks to prepare allowed the Annapolis brass, combined with the city fathers of Municipal Stadium, to attempt to resod the field in the interim in a naked ploy to slow down the fleet Cadets. Army coach Red Blaik got wind of the plan and sent an assistant coach to Baltimore to intervene, to no avail.
The plan worked too well. The week with the game, torrential rains turned the virgin turf into a rice paddy. “[I]n the finish the category of the Army team enabled it to rise above the unnecessarily poor conditions,” Stanley Woodward wrote within the New York Herald Tribune.
In other words, you can get too cute when you have an extra week to prepare. Saban said Monday night he developed his philosophy about what to do during an off week while an assistant coach in the NFL, which wove bye weeks into the schedule years back.
“I think the goal is always to try to give your team some kind of psychological reprieve, some kind of physical reprieve to kind of get healthy and get more healthy for the stretch,” Saban said.
That thinking did not originate with Saban’s former boss in the NFL, Patriots coach Bill Belichick. It dates at least to 1926, when first-year Tennessee coach Robert Neyland had an extra week for the season-ending game against Kentucky. In the notebook, Neyland wrote, “Coast to Ky game.”
The late Tennessee professor Andy Kozar, who played for Neyland at Tennessee, published in 2002, “Football as a War Game: The Annotated Journals of General R. R. Neyland.” “The unorthodox preparation for the 1926 Kentucky game was a practice Neyland would follow for years to come,” Kozar wrote. “I remember the 1950-52 season[s] if the practice week plan needed plenty of rest, elementary school chasing games, and relays.”
No. 1 Army and No. 2 Navy had two weeks to prepare for each other again in 1945, a game that the Cadets won handily, 32-13. Blaik’s team didn’t lose until 1947, the season after the graduation of his Heisman Trophy tandem of backs, Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis.
It’s been 40 years since the last matchup of No. 1 vs. No. 2 with an off week for both. No. 1 Nebraska won at Oklahoma, 35-31 on Thanksgiving Day 1971. Involving the buildup, the crowd swelled through the national holiday and the seesaw nature of the game itself, the game is the showpiece game of an era, as well as a great rivalry killed by realignment.
The Huskers’ Johnny Rodgers put a claim on the 1972 Heisman Trophy using a 72-yard punt return for a touchdown. Sooners fans of your certain age dispute if the Huskers committed one or three illegal blocks about the return.
Which is the great advantage of a game like LSU-Alabama. Two weeks of buildup can result in 40 years of memories — and counting.
LSU Tigers
Geaux Tigers is the cheer for the LSU Tigers for this college football team with a French-Creole influence due to its large Louisiana fan base. The Tigers, also known by locals as the Bayou Bengals, have a rich history in the south, as well as the country for their great football teams and rabid fan base. LSU stadium is dubbed by fans as Death Valley and it is almost impossible for an opposing team to function properly when playing in Baton Rouge. In fact, during one game, the fans cheered so loud it actually showed up on the Richter scale because of the tremors that resounded from the stadium.
LSU has been a successful program and one the most successful programs in the Southern United States and the country. The team is currently is 12th most winningest program in NCAA Football History and they are 4th in their conference in Winning percentage. The team won its first national title in 1958, however after that they went on a national title drought that lasted 45 years.
LSU returned to national prominence in the early 2000′s when Nick Saban arrived to return the team to the national stage. Saban took very little team in returning the team to elite status by his recruiting methods and bringing the most highly prized recruits to Baton Rouge. LSU would end their national title drought in 2003 by winning the Sugar Bowl in nearby New Orleans by beating Oklahoma. The victory was even better because it was celebrated in the state of Louisiana. The victory came at a price though as head coach Nick Saban left for the NFL and the team was thought to be put back into a rebuilding mode, however new head coach Les Miles would not allow that to happen and LSU remained in the country’s elite winning another national title in 2007.
LSU has now become one of the most respected teams in all of college football due to the success they have experienced in this decade especially considered that they have maintained this success under two head coaches. It also does not hurt that they have one of the most rabid fan bases in all of sports not just College Football.
LSU football fans are known primarily for the party atmosphere that they create at home games for their beloved Bayou Bengals, including tailgating which is renowned for its Mardi gras like feel. Some fans will begin their tailgating parties’ days before games, especially night games. Night games at Death Valley are dreaded by the opposing team for the raucous environment inside the stadium. Many opposing players find it hard to play inside the stadium because of the lack of communication with teammates because the noise is so deafening. The LSU faithful is what makes LSU one of the most storied programs in all of college football.
Writer and editor, Freddie Brister, is a former high school football coach of 25 years. His love of the game of football is reflected in his words and memories of growing up in the South and playing football in the back yard with his brother, cousins and neighborhood friends. His biggest thrill is watching former high school players he has coached play at the college level. His favorite pastime is watching college football on tv and attending the games in person every chance he gets. Freddie Brister is a big fan of College Sports. Check out his LSU Store or his LSU Apparel
LSU in Control at College World Series
LSU has lost 16 games all season and is ranked number 1. They proved that they belonged in the College World Series after beating SEC rival Arkansas in College World Series’s second round. LSU’s Blake Dean (DH), Austin Nola (SS), and Mikie Mahtook (CF) hit homeruns Monday at Rosenblatt Stadium.
The 9-1 victory for LSU was aided by the good pitching performance of starter Louis Coleman. They now have a 12 game winning streak. They will resume play Friday afternoon against whoever wins Virginia and Arkansas. Virginia won and lost 9 more games than Arkansas during the regular season. However, in the World Series, that is irrelevant. Whichever team the Tigers play, they will have to be ready because there have been many upsets in the tournament so far. The game Friday will be broadcast on LSU’s Sports Radio Network and ESPN2.
Coleman pitched six innings. He allowed one run while giving up six hits. He walked three batters and struck out seven batters.
Jared Mitchell, a rightfielder, and DJ LeMahieu, a second baseman, each had three hits. On Monday, LeMahieu became the only player in the history of LSU baseball that has back-to-back three-hit games while playing in the World Series.
The Tigers had a 3-0 lead during the first inning. LeMahieu singled and stole second. Schimpf was walked. Mikie Mahtook hit a three-run home run which gave them a lead they would not look back on.
Mahtook was the first LSU freshman since 2000 to hit a homerun in the World Series in college baseball.
The Razorbacks as expected came back in the bottom of the inning and scored a run. That was all the Razorbacks would score.
Nolan Cain ended the game pitching for LSU. He allowed only one hit while striking out two batters.
LSU will take on the winner of the Arkansas-Virginia game Friday.
LSU Tigers
I can’t help but feel that LSU Tigers will win an unprecedented third BCS National Championship within the next two years– it may be a bold prediction but Les Miles has carried on Nick Saban’s legacy admirably already surpassing the latter with four bowls in four seasons. The superb national championship win of the 2007 season made LSU the only team to win the BCS title multiple times. Since the turn of the century, LSU only failed to win a Bowl or a National Championship Game twice – in 2002 Texas won 35-20 in the Cotton Bowl and in 2004 Iowa triumphed 30-25 in the Capital One Bowl. In the 2008 season, LSU started strongly and were 4-0 before visiting Florida Gators and losing 51-21. A 52-38 defeat at home to Georgia followed two games later and LSU were simply unable to make use of home advantage losing three out of the last five at the Tiger Stadium. A month’s rest helped LSU prepare for the Chick-fil-A Bowl and they ran out comfortable 38-3 winners against Georgia Tech.
