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Posted on 12/2/09 at 10:05 am
Posted on 12/2/09 at 10:05 am
Lots of LSU mentions: LINK
4. LSU (2009)
Key players. Ryan Schimpf, Jared Mitchell, DJ LeMahieu, Blake Dean, Louis Coleman, Anthony Ranaudo, Matty Ott
Analysis. The Tigers took a step forward two seasons ago with a trip back to Omaha. Well, the Tigers accomplished the ultimate goal and won their sixth national title in ’09 with a thrilling title series win over Texas. The Tigers were extremely athletic with players such as DJ LeMahieu and Jared Mitchell leading the way in the field. On the mound, you couldn’t get much better than starting pitchers Louis Coleman and Anthony Ranaudo in addition to reliever Matty Ott. The Tigers restored order in Baton Rouge and set the tone for more national titles in the near future.
6. LSU (2000)
Key players. Brad Cresse, Brad Hawpe, Mike Fontenot, Wally Pontiff, Blair Barbier, Brian Tallet
Analysis. The Tigers dominated the national stage in the previous decade and got this decade started on the right foot with a national title win over Stanford. The Tigers had an excellent ace pitcher in Brian Tallet, but this team still was all about offense. The Bayou Bengals finished the campaign with an amazing .340 batting average. Brad Cresse led the lineup and batted .388 with 30 homers and 106 RBIs. Brad Hawpe, Mike Fontenot, Wally Pontiff and Blair Barbier also had great offensive campaigns. The ’00 Tigers were fun to watch.
T-6. LSU (2003) The darkhorse Tigers led the nation in total and scoring defense, spanked preseason SEC favorite Georgia twice and completely shut down Heisman winner Jason White in the Sugar Bowl to finish 13-1 and place the program firmly among the national elite for the first time in decades. Yes, this is properly regarded as a split championship with Associated Press No. 1 USC, but in lieu of the dream Tiger-Trojan showdown, LSU's schedule gives it the narrow edge here.
4. LSU (2009)
Key players. Ryan Schimpf, Jared Mitchell, DJ LeMahieu, Blake Dean, Louis Coleman, Anthony Ranaudo, Matty Ott
Analysis. The Tigers took a step forward two seasons ago with a trip back to Omaha. Well, the Tigers accomplished the ultimate goal and won their sixth national title in ’09 with a thrilling title series win over Texas. The Tigers were extremely athletic with players such as DJ LeMahieu and Jared Mitchell leading the way in the field. On the mound, you couldn’t get much better than starting pitchers Louis Coleman and Anthony Ranaudo in addition to reliever Matty Ott. The Tigers restored order in Baton Rouge and set the tone for more national titles in the near future.
6. LSU (2000)
Key players. Brad Cresse, Brad Hawpe, Mike Fontenot, Wally Pontiff, Blair Barbier, Brian Tallet
Analysis. The Tigers dominated the national stage in the previous decade and got this decade started on the right foot with a national title win over Stanford. The Tigers had an excellent ace pitcher in Brian Tallet, but this team still was all about offense. The Bayou Bengals finished the campaign with an amazing .340 batting average. Brad Cresse led the lineup and batted .388 with 30 homers and 106 RBIs. Brad Hawpe, Mike Fontenot, Wally Pontiff and Blair Barbier also had great offensive campaigns. The ’00 Tigers were fun to watch.
T-6. LSU (2003) The darkhorse Tigers led the nation in total and scoring defense, spanked preseason SEC favorite Georgia twice and completely shut down Heisman winner Jason White in the Sugar Bowl to finish 13-1 and place the program firmly among the national elite for the first time in decades. Yes, this is properly regarded as a split championship with Associated Press No. 1 USC, but in lieu of the dream Tiger-Trojan showdown, LSU's schedule gives it the narrow edge here.
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Posted on 12/2/09 at 10:11 am to danfraz
BEST GAMES
• LSU 28, Florida 24. (Oct. 6, 2007): This had all the big-game trappings -- two top-10 rivals, Saturday night in Tiger Stadium, etc. -- but is memorable mainly as the game in which right-thinking observers became convinced that LSU coach Les Miles' genius lay entirely with the whims of a chaos-peddling trickster god. There's no other explanation for the Tigers' rally from 10 points down in the second half, which required every one of four successful fourth-down conversions to finish off three separate touchdown drives -- including two critical fourth-and-one plunges by running back Jacob Hester to extend an epic 60-yard, 15-play, eight-minute march that would come to define the Tigers' championship season when Hester went straight ahead for the winning touchdown with just over a minute to play.
LSU would go on to finish three other fourth-quarter comebacks and have a BCS Championship berth against Ohio State fall into its lap at the last possible second, an appropriate ending for a coach who proved against the Gators that the twenty-sided die he keeps tucked under his hat is every bit as good as some elaborate game plan.
• LSU 28, Florida 24. (Oct. 6, 2007): This had all the big-game trappings -- two top-10 rivals, Saturday night in Tiger Stadium, etc. -- but is memorable mainly as the game in which right-thinking observers became convinced that LSU coach Les Miles' genius lay entirely with the whims of a chaos-peddling trickster god. There's no other explanation for the Tigers' rally from 10 points down in the second half, which required every one of four successful fourth-down conversions to finish off three separate touchdown drives -- including two critical fourth-and-one plunges by running back Jacob Hester to extend an epic 60-yard, 15-play, eight-minute march that would come to define the Tigers' championship season when Hester went straight ahead for the winning touchdown with just over a minute to play.
LSU would go on to finish three other fourth-quarter comebacks and have a BCS Championship berth against Ohio State fall into its lap at the last possible second, an appropriate ending for a coach who proved against the Gators that the twenty-sided die he keeps tucked under his hat is every bit as good as some elaborate game plan.
This post was edited on 12/2/09 at 10:13 am
Posted on 12/2/09 at 10:12 am to Tiger_n_ATL
BEST PLAYS
• Chris Brown: The Bluegrass Miracle (Nov. 9, 2002)
Kentucky doesn't have too many notches on its belt from wins against top SEC teams, so when it looks like they're gonna get one, the natives get very excited. So it was on Nov. 9, 2002, as the hometeam Wildcats had snagged a 24-21 lead off a field goal. A Kentucky player called timeout before the field goal, saving 11 seconds on the clock, but no matter: LSU began its drive on its own 9-yard-line. Quarterback Marcus Randall completed a pass to Michael Clayton to get the ball to LSU's own 26-yard-line; only two seconds remained between Kentucky and its biggest SEC upset in years. Yet what unfolded instead was straight out of a Wed Anderson montage (or Wes Craven, if you're a Kentucky fan):
In all its folly, excitement, randomness and cruelty, this is sports: Kentucky coach Guy Morriss getting the Gatorade bath before the final play; LSU quarterback Marcus Randall buying time and heaving it as far as he could; the ball cruelly and seemingly purposefully skirting off no fewer than four players' fingers, into the waiting arms of Devery Henderson; Henderson not only catching the ball, but doing so in full stride, between two defenders, allowing him to turn on the afterburners and stride into the end zone; Kentucky fans storming the field and dangling from the goal posts in the opposite end of the field. (My personal favorite is the student in the GQ look jeans plus blazer, non-tucked in shirt, and tie, who storms the field in glee and until it becomes painfully evident that his team has lost.) It's one of the most amazing plays of any decade, because all of college football is in it.
• Chris Brown: The Bluegrass Miracle (Nov. 9, 2002)
Kentucky doesn't have too many notches on its belt from wins against top SEC teams, so when it looks like they're gonna get one, the natives get very excited. So it was on Nov. 9, 2002, as the hometeam Wildcats had snagged a 24-21 lead off a field goal. A Kentucky player called timeout before the field goal, saving 11 seconds on the clock, but no matter: LSU began its drive on its own 9-yard-line. Quarterback Marcus Randall completed a pass to Michael Clayton to get the ball to LSU's own 26-yard-line; only two seconds remained between Kentucky and its biggest SEC upset in years. Yet what unfolded instead was straight out of a Wed Anderson montage (or Wes Craven, if you're a Kentucky fan):
In all its folly, excitement, randomness and cruelty, this is sports: Kentucky coach Guy Morriss getting the Gatorade bath before the final play; LSU quarterback Marcus Randall buying time and heaving it as far as he could; the ball cruelly and seemingly purposefully skirting off no fewer than four players' fingers, into the waiting arms of Devery Henderson; Henderson not only catching the ball, but doing so in full stride, between two defenders, allowing him to turn on the afterburners and stride into the end zone; Kentucky fans storming the field and dangling from the goal posts in the opposite end of the field. (My personal favorite is the student in the GQ look jeans plus blazer, non-tucked in shirt, and tie, who storms the field in glee and until it becomes painfully evident that his team has lost.) It's one of the most amazing plays of any decade, because all of college football is in it.
This post was edited on 12/2/09 at 10:13 am
Posted on 12/2/09 at 10:13 am to Tiger_n_ATL
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5. Alan Faneca(notes). I'm sure he's sold fewer jerseys than anyone on this list, but his contributions were just as vast. He was the lynchpin of the offensive line back when the Steelers used it as their primary weapon, and they destroyed people with it for the better part of the decade.
Posted on 12/2/09 at 10:27 am to danfraz
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T-6. LSU (2003)
That top 10 FB team list is terrible. 2008 USC > 2008 Texas and no 2002 tOSU? in the top 10
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