re: Share your first LSU / Auburn game - Earthquake game for moi

Freshman year, 1980. Played Auburn for homecoming.Along with Alabama, Auburn was predicted as one of the choices for pre-season SEC champion. But a few weeks earlier Tennessee came to Jordan-Hare and crushed them, 42-0. Still, Auburn was loaded but had issues.

The 1980 LSU team was one of the scrappiest,up and down teams we've ever had.Finished Sept 2-2 with a home shutout loss to Florida State and a shocking loss to Rice in Houston.But LSU upset #20 Florida, 24-7 in Gainesville the week before.

Going back and forth the whole game, LSU led 21-17 with under a minute left and faced 4th down on the LSU 20.Auburn sent the house and blocked the punt and had first and goal at the 12.Auburn had a good running game,but elected to throw on every down and a guy named Byron Franklin dropped a wide open pass.Finally on 4th and goal with approx :20 left,Auburn's Joe Sullivan (Pat's little brother) threw one that Marcus Quinn jumped about 11 feet in the air and snagged and kept running before he was bumped out of bounds around midfield. The crowd on Auburn's last possession was deafening and when Quinn secured in the interception the stadium was off the charts. Risher hit a knee and the game was over.