1982 LSU football looked like a fun season

It was a fun year. The night it rained oranges was one of the best in Tiger Stadium history.

Unreal night.

Birth of the Dalton-James Gang

We retired the Bear. FSU game was unreal. Losing to Tulane and a tie with TN were the lows.

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Tulane beat us in TS that season. It was an up-and-down kind of year. Beating Bama in BHam was the best

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My first LSU game at 7yrs old. My 3 memories of it are.
1. A fender bender on the way.
2. Sitting under overhang in lower bowl sez.
3. My dad calling a guy in a green shirt walking down the street in front of our car a "Tulane lookin motherfricker!"

I was hooked.

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That is what was bad about many of our teams back then. They would always come out flat following big victories. Same vs. State following beating bama, and Tulane following beating the brains out of FSU. that team should have also beaten Penn. St. in the orange bowl game but didn't.

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When did this trend end? Hell, 1997 LSU beats No. 1 Florida and then loses by two scores to unranked Mississippi at home on JP. Same team blew the Auburn that year 31-28 and lost to a five-loss Notre Dame (In a stunning 24–6 triumph, the Irish rushed for 232 yards and played their first penalty-free and turnover-free game in program history). 1996 LSU should have gone 11-0...although, I don't think they would have beaten Tennessee in the title game.

In 2003, we beat No. 4 Georgia and then lose to a bad Florida team 19-7 two weeks later with no offensive points all game.

My sophomore year! Earned my stripes! Great memories. Hilliard Jams gang! Badass D! The night it rained oranges! Loved it all!!!!

That 20-10 Bama victory was a beatdown - way worse than the score indicated. The Orange game against Florida State is one of the top two games in Tiger Stadium history (Canon’s ‘59 Halloween run). And the Tulane game, though a loss, was a great game. I’ll never forget late in the fourth quarter down by a couple, and Garry James took a sweep to the house. And I couldn’t believe they let Reginelli to be covered by our lumbering linebackers man to man. The Orange Bowl was also a loss, but LSU was one suspicious penalty from winning that game when, holding a four point lead, Mike Montz ran for a first at the one yard line. That was ballgame if it doesn’t get called back.

I was an LSU student then. It was a fun year, most of the time.

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that team should have also beaten Penn. St. in the orange bowl game but didn't.

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Nebraska