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The 1988 football schedule
Posted on 7/23/10 at 2:21 pm
Posted on 7/23/10 at 2:21 pm
From a name recognition standpoint, I doubt LSU has ever played a schedule as impressive as the one we played in 1988. The non-conference schedule included home games against Texas A&M and Miami, Fla., plus a road game at Ohio State. Tulane also visited Tiger Stadium. In SEC play, we had four road games at Tennessee, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi State, and only three home games against Auburn, Kentucky and Ole Miss. The first five games of the season read like this:
Texas A&M
@Tennessee
@Ohio State
@Florida
Auburn
The Tigers started out on fire, winning the first two, then a stunning come-from-behind upset by Ohio State broke the momentum, and Florida beat us in a lackluster effort by our offense. We bounced back from those two losses with a heroic upset of Auburn in the famed Earthquake Game to finish the 5-game opening murderers' row at 3-2. Then, we settled in to win four more in a row over Kentucky, Ole Miss, Alabama and Mississippi State to clinch the SEC title at 6-1 (7-2 overall). But Miami blew into town and blew us out 44-3 to drop us to 7-3 overall. We ended with a spanking of Tulane at home, but SEC co-champion Auburn (10-1) got the Sugar Bowl bid in spite of our having beaten them head to head, and we were sent off to the Hall of Fame Bowl in Florida, where we didn't show up and got hammered by Syracuse to complete an 8-4 season.
Some people have claimed that the blowout loss at home to Miami is what really broke the backs of that team and the program as a whole, as 1989 began a streak of six straight losing seasons. Incidentally, that Miami game was a replacement game. We were supposed to play SMU in that game, but they got hit with the NCAA death penalty, so we had to find another opponent. What might have happened if we hadn't played those games against Ohio State and Miami, but had played a couple of cupcakes instead? Do we go 10-1, get into the Sugar Bowl instead of Auburn, and use that as a springboard to another good season in 1989? Even as it was, we were a preseason top 10 pick going into 1989 before collapsing and finishing 4-7 to start the darkest period in our history.
Courageous scheduling might have been part of the reason for the downturn in our program at the end of the 1980s. Still, I'd love to see us play a schedule with those names on it these days.
Texas A&M
@Tennessee
@Ohio State
@Florida
Auburn
The Tigers started out on fire, winning the first two, then a stunning come-from-behind upset by Ohio State broke the momentum, and Florida beat us in a lackluster effort by our offense. We bounced back from those two losses with a heroic upset of Auburn in the famed Earthquake Game to finish the 5-game opening murderers' row at 3-2. Then, we settled in to win four more in a row over Kentucky, Ole Miss, Alabama and Mississippi State to clinch the SEC title at 6-1 (7-2 overall). But Miami blew into town and blew us out 44-3 to drop us to 7-3 overall. We ended with a spanking of Tulane at home, but SEC co-champion Auburn (10-1) got the Sugar Bowl bid in spite of our having beaten them head to head, and we were sent off to the Hall of Fame Bowl in Florida, where we didn't show up and got hammered by Syracuse to complete an 8-4 season.
Some people have claimed that the blowout loss at home to Miami is what really broke the backs of that team and the program as a whole, as 1989 began a streak of six straight losing seasons. Incidentally, that Miami game was a replacement game. We were supposed to play SMU in that game, but they got hit with the NCAA death penalty, so we had to find another opponent. What might have happened if we hadn't played those games against Ohio State and Miami, but had played a couple of cupcakes instead? Do we go 10-1, get into the Sugar Bowl instead of Auburn, and use that as a springboard to another good season in 1989? Even as it was, we were a preseason top 10 pick going into 1989 before collapsing and finishing 4-7 to start the darkest period in our history.
Courageous scheduling might have been part of the reason for the downturn in our program at the end of the 1980s. Still, I'd love to see us play a schedule with those names on it these days.
Posted on 7/23/10 at 2:23 pm to Nuts4LSU
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Still, I'd love to see us play a schedule with those names on it these days.
AGREED!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 7/23/10 at 2:24 pm to Nuts4LSU
Aside from Ohio State, we pretty much play this schedule. NC could be substituted for TAMU.
Posted on 7/23/10 at 2:27 pm to Nuts4LSU
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Still, I'd love to see us play a schedule with those names on it these days.
So you could bitch even more than you do already when lsu plays a tight game and loses?
jk.
Kinda
Posted on 7/23/10 at 2:27 pm to Nuts4LSU
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Some people have claimed that the blowout loss at home to Miami is what really broke the backs of that team and the program as a whole,
I was at this game...there isn't a word to describe how miserable it was. Sat with my grandmother through the whole thing because she was scared to walk down the steps in the torrential downpour.
Posted on 7/23/10 at 2:27 pm to Nuts4LSU
Posted on 7/23/10 at 2:28 pm to Nuts4LSU
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Some people have claimed that the blowout loss at home to Miami is what really broke the backs of that team and the program as a whole, as 1989 began a streak of six straight losing seasons.
i don't know if i agree with that. the downfall of our program started with Curley Hallman. there were of course many other factors, but the 88 season didn't have a long-term effect on LSU, imo. the string of bowl losses during the 80s definitely hurt us.
Posted on 7/23/10 at 2:31 pm to Nuts4LSU
Interesting take, but I don't buy a downturn at the end of one year really affecting the next year. New team, new talent, new opponents..... 1988 shouldn't have much at all to do with what happened in 1989. There are many more controlling/governing factors than momentum from one year to the next. One of them being Mike Archer (or some say Joe Dean), which is a whole thread within itself.
Posted on 7/23/10 at 2:47 pm to Choctaw
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I was at this game...there isn't a word to describe how miserable it was. Sat with my grandmother through the whole thing
HIGH PROPS for this!!!!
Posted on 7/23/10 at 3:29 pm to dukke v
Yep, I was at LSU at the time and sat there like a dip watching most of that Miami game. No one remembers that that game wasn't quite as bad as the score indicated. I mean, it was bad, but Miami got two really late defensive TDs to run up the score (I mean, with 1 minute left in the game and a 34-point lead, why would you not just fall on the ball), and we also had five total turnovers in that game.
I also saw us lose two years earlier to another Miami team in the rain, Miami (Ohio). Now, that was a sight to behold. Bill Arnsparger losing to his alma mater in the rain. Of course, we go on the road and beat the Gators the following week. Crazy.
I saw us lose to Tulane in the rain in 1982 and again to Kentucky in 1983. Rain and Tiger Stadium usually don't mix.
I also saw us lose two years earlier to another Miami team in the rain, Miami (Ohio). Now, that was a sight to behold. Bill Arnsparger losing to his alma mater in the rain. Of course, we go on the road and beat the Gators the following week. Crazy.
I saw us lose to Tulane in the rain in 1982 and again to Kentucky in 1983. Rain and Tiger Stadium usually don't mix.
Posted on 7/23/10 at 3:33 pm to Nuts4LSU
I wish Boise State played this type schedule 1 year.
Posted on 7/23/10 at 7:17 pm to Choctaw
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I was at this game...there isn't a word to describe how miserable it was. Sat with my grandmother through the whole thing because she was scared to walk down the steps in the torrential downpour.
We joked that Miami brought a real hurricane with them. The damn rain was horizontal at times. HUGE drops that would sting when they hit you.
Posted on 7/23/10 at 9:25 pm to Choctaw
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I was at this game...there isn't a word to describe how miserable it was. Sat with my grandmother through the whole thing because she was scared to walk down the steps in the torrential downpour
I was at that game too, sitting in the student section and stayed until the end. You really made your grandmother sit through a 3-44 blowout loss in a tropical monsoon????
That's hardcore.
Posted on 7/23/10 at 9:31 pm to Tigerpaul1969
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No one remembers that that game wasn't quite as bad as the score indicated.
It was friggen 44-3. You do realize that your statement is a very close relative to: "She wasn't really that fat."
No, none of us have ever said that...
Posted on 7/23/10 at 10:35 pm to ToxicTiger
The 88 Ohio St. game was a tie no?
ETA: nevermind, it was the 87 game.
ETA: nevermind, it was the 87 game.
This post was edited on 7/23/10 at 10:37 pm
Posted on 7/23/10 at 10:50 pm to ToxicTiger
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You really made your grandmother sit through a 3-44 bloZwout loss in a tropical monsoo n???
no...she made me cuz she was scared to walk down the steps. Well...she didn't make me but I wasn't going make her leave if she was scared. It completely sucked at the time but it makes for a good story now. And anytime she gets mad at me all have to say is "hey Memeaux, remember that Miami game?". And all is forgiven.
This post was edited on 7/23/10 at 10:58 pm
Posted on 7/23/10 at 10:56 pm to Tigerpaul1969
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No one remembers that that game wasn't quite as bad as the score indicated. I mean, it was bad, but Miami got two really late defensive TDs to run up the score
Instead of 44-3, it would have been 30-3 without the two late Miami TDs. Not as bad as it seemed.
Posted on 7/24/10 at 9:17 am to Geaux Big Red
The only time I have ever seen Jimmy Johnson with his hair out of place. It could not even stay still in that wind and rain. Also the only time I have ever seen a negative 3 yard punt that no one touched.
I have always held Brett Favre responsible for the downfall of LSU football. If he doesn't make Curley look like a football coach, Raycom never finds him. My man Joe Dean, always shopping for his coaches at K Mart.
I have always held Brett Favre responsible for the downfall of LSU football. If he doesn't make Curley look like a football coach, Raycom never finds him. My man Joe Dean, always shopping for his coaches at K Mart.
This post was edited on 7/24/10 at 9:19 am
Posted on 7/24/10 at 9:18 am to Geaux Big Red
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This post was edited on 7/24/10 at 9:19 am
Posted on 7/24/10 at 9:55 am to Rohan2Reed
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the downfall of our program started with Curley Hallman.
We were already two years into a six-year streak of losing seasons when Hallman was hired. The downfall of our program occurred on Mike Archer's watch. Curley was brought in to fix it, recruited well, but couldn't change the losing mentality. DiNardo did that.
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