re: What was your favorite LSU game played in the SuperDome?

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6.5 underdogs

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Still too much, but that defense wasn’t gonna be a 2 touchdown dog to anybody by that time, not after the arse-kicking we handed Georgia in Atlanta.

I remembered we dominated that game, but just looked up a recap and had forgotten some things. Georgia Dome was 3/4 Bulldogs fans and we came out and just took their soul in the 1st 20 minutes.

They couldn’t move the ball at all, JV busted his 87-yarder 10 minutes into the 1st, they go 3 and out and we get a safety on the punt. Proceed to take the kickoff and go on a 7 play 71 yard drive, then they 3 and out for -5 yards in only 48 seconds, we turn that into a FG to make it 17-0 just 5 minutes and 16 seconds into the 2nd quarter, but that game was already over. We had 196 yards to their -8 and everybody in the stadium or watching on tv knew it was over, specifically the Georgia players. David Greene, an all-time great Georgia QB who hadn’t thrown an interception in 3 games was picked off 3 times (once by Lionel Turner who returned it for a TD), was sacked 5 times, and finished 17-41 for only 199 yards. And they only had 50 yards rushing to our 293 (thanks, JV, helluva game). We won 34-13, but Chris Jackson missed an XP and had 2 kicks blocked (I think a FG and another XP), and it wasn’t even really that close. We lead the country in scoring defense that season.

So none of that happened in the Super Dome, but it was the game when I realized just how fricking elite that 2003 defense was—not just for that season, but all-time. And I can’t remember how Oklahoma’s butt-kicking in the Big 12 CG to K-State affected everybody’s opinions, but I think it was kind of blown off because they were likely in no matter what.

So why the 2004 NCG (2003 season) is my favorite in the Super Dome is because it felt more like a coronation as much as a competition. No team was scoring on that defense at that point, not enough to actually win. Like Thanos, that defense—and the team, by proxy—was inevitable. Sadly, so was Saban, it turns out. fricking bastard.