For Those Who were There - Rate the LSU/Neb '76 Crowd.

It was a great game and the stadium was on fire. We tied the Number1 team in the country so we said we were 1a.

Go to hell Ole Miss was yelled on the way out.

I sat in the student section and we were loud

I was there as a 7 y/o and remember the crowd going crazy as the teams left the field at the end of the game. I didnt understand why everybody was so pumped about a tie.

didn't LSU only lose to nebraska in lincoln 10-7 the year before ? carl trimble fumbled a key punt in that game if remember reading correctly ..

eta: also, linebacker rusty domingue killed someone that night after the 1976 nebraska game ..

What I remember most was how many Nebraska fans had traveled. Their fans were unlike the fans from most other teams we play regularly - very classy! As I recall the crowd was loud but not rabid, maybe the opposition had something to do with that.

Mostly it was a memorable night because the outcome was so unexpected. One of my favorite games ever! (Along with ND a couple of years earlier and Alabama 2010)

I was there and remember the crowd being extremely loud throughout the game. It was the opening game of the season and everyone had been pointing to this game all summer.

Nebraska was preseason #1 coming in and were very lucky to avoid the upset.

I also remember all the Cornhusker fans in red, there were a lot of them in the southeast corner.

Also, the biggest human being I ever saw in Tiger Stadium was the Husker's #75, OT Randy Poeschl. What a monster, and he was only a sophomore that year.

Great game.

This was my first game as an incoming freshman. I had been in the stadium for many games growing up including Notre Dame.
Tigers hung in with the Huskers, and sitting on the 45 yard line (the student section went from the 50 yd line around to the north stadium in those days), I thought at first, that Conway had made the FG.
Crowd was good, atmosphere was good.
What I remember, however, is that our LB who had a great game and blocked a FG, was arrested later that night after a bar room brawl in which someone was stabbed. Tragic event.

I was a sophomore and in the student section. The crowd was loud and electric, but not the most I ever saw. (ND 1971 takes that honor - I was not at USC 79). Late afternoon start may have been a factor. It was the first game for a new Mike.

Domingue did knife someone after the game - a driver in traffic outside of a bar. He's reborn and a minister now, and he talks about it a bit on his web site. I don't have a link handy.

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I've always been curious myself why that game has never received the status of the 1979 USC game.

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Call it a prelude to the USC game.

I was there, 1st game as a freshman. Saving frat seats. Drunker than Cooter Brown off a fifth of Benchmark bourbon. Drank the whole thing with my date sitting outside the stadium from about 1 until 6, then stood up and almost passed out. The one memory I have is how awesome it was walking up the final ramp and coming out into Tiger Stadium. The noise, the lights, the band, the buzz--it was electric. I wish I could remember the game itself!