How many MNC games has LSU lost and won?

people in the west will tell you we lost half a championship to usc...

Did some digging, we lost to Nebraska in 1971 Orange Bowl, they were awarded the NC because both the #1 & #2 teams lost their bowl games,Neb. was #3.

This is interesting from Wiki:

In April 1970, Congress passed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act banning the advertising of cigarettes on television and radio; in order to allow the New Year's Day football games to keep their already-sold cigarette ads, the prohibition was set to begin on January 2, 1971. Airing in prime time on the East Coast, the 1971 Orange Bowl thus became the last televised sporting event to carry cigarette ads, the final one (for Winston) airing at 10:54 p.m.[1] (The very last tobacco adverisement, for Virginia Slims, was shown at 11:59 p.m. during a break on The Tonight Show).[2]

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Penn State was undefeated but wasn't the NC that year. Notre Dame won the AP and Alabama won the coaches poll (last year that the final coaches poll was released before the bowls).

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I stand corrected. I never looked it up because I thought they said NC team on Pawn Stars, it was just Orange Bowl champions.

So it looks like just the 66 Cotton and the 71 Orange(other than our own NC's)

In 1970 LSU was 9-2 going into the Orange Bowl to face a 10-0-1 Nebraska.

Texas had already won the UP poll, as it was still given out before the bowl games.

The AP voted Nebraska #1 after the bowls, in which Texas and Ohio St. lost.

LSU has NEVER lost a MNC game. They have won 3 (if you count the Ole Myth game in 1958).

LSU has never lost a game where they had a chance to walk away with a national championship. IN ANY SPORT.

The answer is won 2, lost none.

In 1958, the bowls were played after the final polls. I presume that's why you claim the Tulane game was a MNC game. Was Tulane a contender for the MNC that year?

And we weren't going to be crowned MNC for winning those bowl games in 66, 71, or 73, so you can't call those MNC games on the same level as today's BCS era championship games.

In the pre BCS era there was rarely a true 1 vs 2 bowl matchup to give us a head to head end of year showdown. Kinda the whole reason the BCS came into existence.

I know what implications means, but your thread title says MNC games, not games with MNC implications. In the middle of the OP, you do eventually say games w MNC implications. But then later you say games where winner is crowned MNC. But that wasn't technically true as LSU couldn't win those games and be crowned MNC because we won that bowl game.