re: 1969 tigers no bowl??

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That LSU team could have beaten Penn State and John Cappeletti in the Orange

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John Cappeletti wasn't on that team. He was on the 1973 Penn State team that beat LSU in the Orange Bowl.

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or Texas and James Street in the Cotton for the NC.

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NC was not a possibility for us. Also, it took Charley Mac many years to figure out how to defend against the wishbone. Alabama adopted it in 1971 or 1972, and we didn't learn how to stop it until, arguably, 1979. We'll never know if LSU would have beaten Texas, but it was far from a given.

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Notre Dame did not deserve to go over LSU - they were ranked lower than LSU and had a worse record.

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That is the only thing that we have a legitimate beef about, but back then bowl games were more about attendance and national appeal and less about quality. So, basically, the same as they are now.