BR Trip and Sugar Bowl-Appreciate recs

Great trip with my boys despite the loss. Easy drive over from Atl. Enjoyed Mobile bridges and water. Cook Hotel-very nice. I'm not a world traveler but courteous, clean, nice little gift shop, and some memorabilia for the boys to enjoy. Great breakfast. Think I paid $125 a night. Campus was ghost town understandably. Managed to find way into Tiger Stadium-stunning. Huge in words of DJT. Cool seeing the original dorms. Mike was prowling one day and sleeping the next. Super cool. Very unique. Underwhelmed by Maravich. Floor was in bad shape. But kinda like Stegman. Lipstick on a pig. Alex Box- impressive. Manicured. Could not get into football facility bc coaching changes. Beautiful oaks were my favorite part of campus. Drove by Southern- not impressed as some HBCU's I've seen. Took boys to Maruccis. We didn't tour bc you got to book a tour and I didn't. They were drudging the lakes. Went to capitol but elevator was down due to renovations which looked badly needed. Downtown was ghost. No homeless ppl like Atl. New Orleans had plenty. Went to Parraines and The Chimes. Great food and atmosphere. Crawfish etoufee one night and bbq shrimp and boudin balls. Easy drive to game. Buzzed thru Tulane. Didn't care for way everything was crammed together. One non-typical part of trip. Kuddos to Ray's barbershop. Old school. Great cut by Mr. Guitreaux. Enjoyed my upper deck seats. Good food but crazy expensive. Was expecting hookers and blow on Bourbon St but it was tame (of course we went during day). Clean building-Superdome. The drive over was pretty seeing all the water. Def coming to UGA @ LSU in 29. Hope it's a night game. Quick getting out of NO. Never once got the "danger" vibe in city. Got back to Cook and read Tiger Rag about Red October. Very interested to see how much Liffin is embraced off the bat by everyone. As UGA LSU is not really a rival I am so glad we stayed on campus. Have always admired them from afar. Was underwhelmed by Tiger Town- maybe I didn't see-but it looked like 3 bars in a shady part of town. I'm used to Athens where everything in DT is close. Boys enjoyed campus bookstore and Bengals and Bandits. Wonder if LSU is a place where you gotta be Greek to fit in. UGA was not. I wasn't Greek but had buddies whonweee. No hate. Overall amazing place. Someone plz recommend a good history of state book for me. I'm a history teacher but didn't think about that. When i come I want tonTailgate with y'all good folks! Go Tigers and Dawgs! Also went to Cafe Dumond got the traditional. Black coffee was like tar- can't get too strong for me!