A Question to the Old Timers - Is the Vibe Similar to USC circa 79

I was at that game with my Dad, and all I remember was after the game everyone was yelling LSU LSU as they walked outside the stadium.

It was the mighty USC against the southern hicks. The no. 1 running back in the nation against a top 10 lSU defense. Charles White was avg. Well over 100 yds. a game and we shut him down. They had all american wide receivers. I was standing shoulder to shoulder wth my friend and had to scream in his ear for him to hear. If not for a phantom call in the endzone against us we win. All i could hear was kill the refs. I was hoarse for 3 days. I've seen about 75 games in TIGER stadium and that was by for the best memory!!!

Same vibe? Hard to say. The problem with these "old timer" questions is that I was so drunk game day back then I don't know how I felt. Now that I've been sober for 25yrs. it's like you're asking me to access another personality.

One thing I do remember is that Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night was a huge advantage for us against any ranked team. Whole lotta magic!

I was a freshman at LSU in that year, i.e. fall of 1979 and had a speech class with former QB at Broadmoor High School Dale Begue. He was playing defensive back at LSU at the time though not starting his freshman year. I remember him talking in class that USC was about the best team he had ever seen on film and that included the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburg Steelers who were the premiere NFL football teams at the time. Didnt sit in the Student Section that night as I sat in my Dad's season ticketes. Without a doubt one of the loudest games I have ever attended. I remember walking up the ramps on the West side to go to Section 12 , Row J , Seates 29 and 30 and could absolutely hear the stadium buzzing with loudness as I was walking towards the seats. I would imagine this game is beginning to have the same feelings as that game for this Ole Timer.

As an "old timer" that was part of the LSU student section for the '79 game, I'm qualified to rant.

Similarities: #1 team coming in, night game, most "experts" picking LSU to lose, loud stadium expected

Differences: Minimal talent gap between the teams, far more pre-game media exposure, more relevant to national CFB picture, 15K more butts in seats, prime-time national broadcast

Can't read the vibe from 500 miles away, but I would expect there to be a lot of buzz in anticipation of the game.

If the noise is = or > than USCe a few weeks back, & it should be, McCarron can forget about any cute check offs at the line.

I don't think the VIBE is the same. I was 13 and was a HUGE USC fan. Rode the greyhound bus from Shreveport and sat with my cousin in the student section. Left the game a HUGE LSU fan.

I know CSB

That LSU team was mediocre at best. Valiant effort, but the real LSU team played out throughout the season. In their defense, it was a strange season where after the Alabama game in '78 it was announced that McClendon would ahem, "retire" after the '79 year, plus their was a brtual schedule with Southern Cal and Florida State (11-0 in regular season) as non-conference team.

The Miles haters and Sabanistas can knock this LSU team all they want,but they are ignorant.An LSU win Saturday would not be "shocking" in the least.

yea, the vibe was similar, not the hype tho. today's media saturates the coverage of events. but usc coming to town in those days was like notre dame coming to town. every red blooded LSU fan was pumped regardless of the "chances of winning". it's hard to be exact recalling big games in Tiger Stadium over the last 50 some odd years but other than curly's time and spurrier's when he invented the passing game in the sec, LSU has stepped up big time. beating bama saturday would be no surprise to me, none at all.

I was in the student section of the USC game that year. Most fun and intense football game I have ever been to. They had to make us leave the stadium after the game! The difference in this year's LSU-Bama contest is that the talent difference between the two teams was greater for the USC game. LSU was truly David against Goliath. We were there while the Trojans got off the bus, and we were rocking the bus back and forth! We made a line/gauntlet for the USC players to walk through and we Tiger Baited the sh$t outta them! Man, they were some big mofos though!! Someone in the north stadium dorm hung a giant condom from their window! That was hilarious! The caliber of talent on our team this year, gives us a much better chance of winning against a Bama team that, top-to-bottom, is not as strong as that USC team was. ALL OF YOU IN THE STUDENT SECTION FOR THIS GAME - MAKE US PROUD BY SCREAMING LOUD!! This one needs to be for the memory books too, and you can talk about this game with your grandkids, like us old farts remember the USC game. Let's win though!! No moral victories here!!