re: What does the nation outside of Louisiana say about LSU?

In my experience, mostly with people in the Midwest and West Coast, they obviously support their own area schools and conferences first and the SEC is kinda the bad guy with all the success in the conference.

LSU though most of them like more than a lot of the other schools and most would love to go to a game in Death Valley.
They also love our pro players...Shaq, Pistol Pete, Fournette, Honey Badger, PP21, OBJ, Bregs, Mikie, Jacoby, etc are names I often hear brought up.
With football, they think our coaches are awesome (Les) and crazy (O) but very likeable.