re: What is the greatest single play in LSU football history?

Cannon's punt return. check
Earthquake game. check
TM's punt returns. check
Flynn to Byrd. check
BGM. check
CEH run against Ala. check
Burrow run against Clemson where he pointing for blocks. Check
Jones to Davis. check

But the attempted tackle on a pic 6 by Burrow against an undefeated UCF team in which Burrow was pancaked, and got up and led LSU to victory, will always be a great play, that wasn't necessarily a great play.

Mauk to Skyler Green vs UGA is up there for me.

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but Clyde's game against 2019 bama was so fun to watch.

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It should go down as one of the greatest individual efforts in the history of LSU football. For me, it even surpasses Hester's effort in 2007 vs. Florida.

The list of plays he made with just sheer will and determination will be hard to top:

3rd and 10 will ALWAYS be at the top of the list for me. But he also had the spin for a TD where the Bama player had him dead to rights. The determination to fight through tackles for what would be the game clinching score. The effort to literally drag a pile of defenders 6-7 yards to get the game ending 1st down.

I don't know if any player has ever played a "perfect game"...but that night Clyde came close.

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What is the greatest single play in LSU football history?

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Toss dive..

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I don't know if any player has ever played a "perfect game"...but that night Clyde came close.

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I focused my greatest play list primarily on impact. Obviously Hester's "longest yard" (actually logged as a 2-yard run) was a straight ahead run, but it was against a Meyer-coached, Tebow led Florida team. And while not a "4th down" conversion as we'd had in the game, it was the most dramatic rush of the game. And a shame to exclude a play from that game just because it wasn't a huge chunk or incredible athletic play.

It's silly, but still somehow makes sense to exclude Clyde from this list as it wasn't, really, any single play in the #RollClyde game (and the same could be argued for Faulk in the Houston game, save for the fact Faulk had a couple of bonehead moments early in the game as well). Bama came into the 2019 game with the mindset that they were going to make someone other than Burrow beat them. And the LSU player who stepped up was Clyde Edwards-Helaire. All 5'7", 185 pounds of him.

There is more to football than stats. That was a huge game. Other LSU players have had career superlative games (including against Alabama, looking at you Josh Reed), but the stats actually understate how important CEH was to the win in 2019.

20 carries, 103 yards, really only the 3 TDs is impressive. That's a solid day for a tailback, with an extra TD.

Receiving a little more impressive - out of the backfield, 9 receptions (led all players in the game in receptions), 77 yards and a touchdown. Impressive, but not amazing as a stat line.

He also returned a single kick for 19 yards giving him just short of 200 all purpose yards for the game, 4 TDs and no fumbles (on 30 touches). Starting to look like an outstanding all purpose game, but not necessarily world beating (other than considering the opponent).

The Second Half troubles in that game were mainly pass blocking related. First drive of the second half had a couple of nice CEH plays, but an incomplete pass, sack/fumble ended our chance to seal the game away right there. The offense stalled until after Bama's second TD of the half.

The TD trading was a solid mix of Burrow and company and CEH. The first TD drive of the second half, Clyde rushed for a first down, caught a pass for a first down and Clyde and Joe gained all the yardage from the 36 to the endzone on the ground, with Clyde getting the score (as he would on the final TD to seal the game on the very next possession).

The dramatic plays were fun to watch in the game, but it was #22's reliability throughout the game that was the difference in that game - yes he had a couple of stuffs, but it was Bama. A kid that size had no business pushing Bama around like that. And I suppose that nobody should have told him shite like that because it made him mad/determined.

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Faulk had a couple of bonehead moments early in the game as well).

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he was suspended for the first half of that game, baw

-Blue grass
-fake field goal vs south Carolina
-fake punt vs florida
-vs Georgia two plays, green catch and Webster interception the stadium was insane..
- the million 4th down conversions vs Florida

Man, so many great memories in this thread. Tough to pick a true best play in LSU history. Not sure this one tops the list, but it's worth adding alongside the other greats here:

Brad Wing fake punt for a touchdown called back because our PUNTER WAS TAUNTING FLORIDA DBS THAT COULDN'T CATCH HIM!

I don't even care that it cost us points on that play. Your punter rubbing it in the Gators' faces is completely worth it.

Also worth adding to the list: Thaddeus Moss getting both feet inbounds.

Probably my personal all-time favorite, though, was the Honeybadger punt coverage strip and score against Oregon. That was the beginning of something special.

You can obviously tell the youngens in here...without a doubt the greatest play was Cannon. It wasn't just the play itself, but the consequences and timing as well. LSU hadn't lost in 19 games...there are plenty of other great plays...but this is head and shoulders above the rest. I wasn't alive either, but it doesn't take away from it.

Cannon.