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What was the worst LSU football team ever?
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:42 pm
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:42 pm
The off-season is going to be a long one. May as well try a different topic for a change.
It’s amazing how depressing a season like 2008 or 2014 was, but those were still 8-win teams, and talented at that. These days it’s not hard to finish over .500. You win your games against non-conference trash, get wins against teams you normally defeat (i.e aggy, Moo State, Vandy), and you are in decent shape. It makes you wonder how LSU could have been so bad under Hallman.
The candidates:
1992: 2-9 (1-7) Tigers opened with respectable loss to a top-10 A&M team. Turned around and beat top-20 Miss State, then lost a tight one @ Auburn. Bottom fell out with loss to Colorado State, and Tigers lost 6 of their last 7. Lone win was against Tulane. Season concluded with blowout loss to 2-7-1 Arkansas team that had an interim coach.
1999: 3-8 (1-7) LSU’s three wins came against San Jose State, North Texas, and a 7-3 Arkansas team. That win goes on the record of interim coach Hal Hunter. Sandwiched between the victories were 8-losses. A 41-7 pasting at the hands of a sub-.500 Auburn team and a 31-5 loss to Kentucky marked the height of the embarrassment for the Tigers.
1983: 4-7 (0-6) These Tigers are listed because of the winless conference record. A tight loss to Florida State, followed by wins against Rice and #9 Washington landed Stovall’s squad in the top-20. LSU dropped 6 of 8, including a 45-26 loss to a Miss State team that would finish 3-8. The other two wins for LSU game against South Carolina and Tulane.
1981: 3-7-1 (1-4-1) Stovall lands another squad on this list. Tigers started with back-to-back losses to top 5 opponents (Alabama and Notre Dame). LSU evened their record with wins over Oregon State (who would finish 1-10) and Rice. The lone remaining win came against a 3-8 Kentucky team with a lame duck coach. Tigers mustered a tie against Ole Miss, who was currently on a 5-game slide of their own. This season will be remembered for a season-ending 48-7 loss to Tulane.
It’s amazing how depressing a season like 2008 or 2014 was, but those were still 8-win teams, and talented at that. These days it’s not hard to finish over .500. You win your games against non-conference trash, get wins against teams you normally defeat (i.e aggy, Moo State, Vandy), and you are in decent shape. It makes you wonder how LSU could have been so bad under Hallman.
The candidates:
1992: 2-9 (1-7) Tigers opened with respectable loss to a top-10 A&M team. Turned around and beat top-20 Miss State, then lost a tight one @ Auburn. Bottom fell out with loss to Colorado State, and Tigers lost 6 of their last 7. Lone win was against Tulane. Season concluded with blowout loss to 2-7-1 Arkansas team that had an interim coach.
1999: 3-8 (1-7) LSU’s three wins came against San Jose State, North Texas, and a 7-3 Arkansas team. That win goes on the record of interim coach Hal Hunter. Sandwiched between the victories were 8-losses. A 41-7 pasting at the hands of a sub-.500 Auburn team and a 31-5 loss to Kentucky marked the height of the embarrassment for the Tigers.
1983: 4-7 (0-6) These Tigers are listed because of the winless conference record. A tight loss to Florida State, followed by wins against Rice and #9 Washington landed Stovall’s squad in the top-20. LSU dropped 6 of 8, including a 45-26 loss to a Miss State team that would finish 3-8. The other two wins for LSU game against South Carolina and Tulane.
1981: 3-7-1 (1-4-1) Stovall lands another squad on this list. Tigers started with back-to-back losses to top 5 opponents (Alabama and Notre Dame). LSU evened their record with wins over Oregon State (who would finish 1-10) and Rice. The lone remaining win came against a 3-8 Kentucky team with a lame duck coach. Tigers mustered a tie against Ole Miss, who was currently on a 5-game slide of their own. This season will be remembered for a season-ending 48-7 loss to Tulane.
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Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:43 pm to TexasTiger08
Any Curly Hallman coached team
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:44 pm to TexasTiger08
The 80's as a whole was awful.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:50 pm to bopper50
‘84-‘88 featured some strong teams. 2 conference championships and a 10-1-1 team whose lone loss to was Bama. 80’s wasn’t that bad.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:50 pm to TexasTiger08
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1981: 3-7-1 (1-4-1)
This is the first team that came to mind. The amazing thing is that the next year they came within a last second FG from Dana Moore and a 30 yd TD run by Reggie Reginelli on a wet field from playing for the National Championship.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:51 pm to TexasTiger08
1992. I saw every one of the home games. That team seemed like it enjoyed shooting itself in the foot,
Posted on 3/27/20 at 8:58 pm to Macavity92
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1992. I saw every one of the home games
I was right there with you during the years of unspeakable darkness. I was a student then; luckily my son is not having that same experience currently as a student. In fact, it's the complete opposite.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:00 pm to TexasTiger08
1999 was the least amount of fun I’ve ever had watching a football season. It was like watching a funeral week after week.
However, the Hal Hunter Arkansas game was a nice treat. But, ugh, 99’ sucked.
However, the Hal Hunter Arkansas game was a nice treat. But, ugh, 99’ sucked.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:03 pm to TexasTiger08
Crazy bout Curly......Curly bout Crazy... 
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:04 pm to saturncube21
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Any Curly Hallman coached team
Stovall, Dinardo and even Archer had flashes of success. The Hallman era was just bleak from beginning to end.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:08 pm to TexasTiger08
1992
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:20 pm to cleeveclever
1999 was bad but for some reason it was still fun to go to the games 
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:22 pm to ELVIS U
I lived through all of those seasons - 81 (high school), 83 (freshman at LSU), 92 (year after law school). 1992 was by far the worst. Hallman had no redeeming characteristics and his teams were just terrible. Stovall at least had a great 1982 year, he was likable, and a former tiger great as a player.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 9:39 pm to TexasTiger08
1992 was bad. But they actually could have been a bowl team. The talent wasn’t bad, they just a complete idiot coaching them. Decent coaching and they would have been 7-4. Have heard many behind the scenes stories from the Curly years and some of the stuff that went on was crazy.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:15 pm to TexasTiger08
I was in 3rd grade during the 92 season and I can very distinctly remember going with my dad to the Colorado state game and we had two extra tickets and we were giving them away for free and could not find two people who would take them from us. Dad left them with a kid selling programs as we went in TS.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:45 pm to TexasTiger08
1999 at least played some tough games against UGA, Bama, Moo
Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:50 pm to Ponchy Tiger
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Have heard many behind the scenes stories from the Curly years and some of the stuff that went on was crazy.
What you got?
I’ve heard some good ones about the ‘85 trip to Memphis for the Liberty Bowl.
Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:54 pm to bopper50
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The 80's as a whole was awful.
Did you just start watching football in the last 5 or 10 years?
You may want to take a look at 84, 85, 86, 87 & 88. We were conference champions in 86 (I think co-champions in 88), had a couple of Sugar Bowl appearances during these years and were ranked as high as #4 in 1987 (when we finished 10-1-1).
But the 80's as a whole were awful? Really?
Edit to add 1982 (Hilliard's freshman year)
This post was edited on 3/27/20 at 10:55 pm
Posted on 3/27/20 at 11:15 pm to cleeveclever
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1999 was the least amount of fun I’ve ever had watching a football season. It was like watching a funeral week after week.
However, the Hal Hunter Arkansas game was a nice treat. But, ugh, 99’ sucked
The season sucked but that team would have been stacked but for a legion of injuries
Posted on 3/27/20 at 11:46 pm to TexasTiger08
I can chime in with some authority since I have been going to all the games since 1966. Rock bottom was when we lost to Florida by 50+ points in Tiger Stadium in Hallman's second to last year. He was fired the next year after he lost to Southern Miss, but at least that gave us a glimmer of hope. Those were the bad old days.
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