re: Where does that game rank in LSU and NCAA baseball history?

In the grand scheme of things at LSU baseball, this by itself isn't yet in the upper pantheon; it didn't even get us to Omaha.

What it DOES remind me of, though, is those football games against USC with Lattimore and Clowney, A&M with Manziel, Florida in the Swamp etc later in Les' career, when the media's attitude was:
"LSU's time is over, and now we'll see this new great team slay the dragon"

LSU might be down, but we ain't dead just yet.