re: Peak of your happiness as an LSU fan

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the fact that beating Ole Miss was considered an upset, and warranted rushing the field, definitely isn't my peak of happiness as an LSU fan

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It was mostly to troll Ole Miss. They had just rushed the field against Bama earlier in the year.

I also think people forget what it was like going into that game. We lost to freaking Miss State (in front of a crowd that had all but left by the start of the fourth quarter), Auburn had made us our bitch, we barely scraped by a not good Florida team. Now Ole Miss was going to come in our house and beat us. No one expected that win to happen. At least I didn't and most of my friends didn't. But at the time, crushing Ole Miss's title hopes and all of a sudden we were in a position to win the West. The immediacy of the turnaround was what made it so great. Having no no expectations of winning but having a rocking stadium help us pull off the upset against who is historically our biggest rival outside of Tulane. For me, that surpasses the Game of the Century. Maybe if we had won the rematch that would be it. The 2012 game would probably have done it too, but we haven't had that kind of success in the big moments, against Bama. I also just didn't appreciate the 03 championship as much being young. I've been spoiled growing up in the late 90s, early 2000s. That season was the first time I ever felt truly embarrassed as a Tiger fan. The Ole Miss game felt like we got our balls back, and that's why it's my favorite.

The only other moment I've witnessed in person that made me personally as happy was the 07 UF game.