Bama has a spell on LSU

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I am planning on CLK to end it soon.

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We won’t face them for a while.

I’m gonna get downvoted but we have little brother syndrome. We want what they have. The dynasty, the consistency, the pedigree. And even when we get a taste of glory, we still try to compare ourselves to Bama.

No matter the coach, no matter the scheme, and no matter the season, the story is always the same. I don’t want to type that but the results speak for themselves.

To paraphrase Dusty Rhodes, the view never changes when you are a walk behinder. And sadly that’s what we are.

Bama is LSU's daddy. Some rivalries this happens to teams. Bama lives in LSU's head rent free and it's a mental lapse they can never seem to overcome. They owned us before Saban and they own us now. SEC not scheduling them as our permanent opponent was the best favor they could've done. Yeah, I said it because it's true.

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Then we play them and look like dog shite.

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I mean, did we? Statistically we dominated them. 150 more offensive yards tells me Bama was not vastly superior. Our red zone offense failed but we were not outclassed.

But yes, Bama has always had a curse on us. Going back to before Saban. I was there in 1998 when we were leading 16-7 very late in the game and Bama magically converts deep passes and gets an inside kick. It was a series of miracles that no other team gets with such regularity.

The freaking bye week this year was a killer.

The offense was humming and had continuity. They were finding a rhythm that was mixing big explosive plays with yard gouging check downs...we were a team on the rise.

Alabama on the other hand was shite. They were hurt, they had 0 defensive discipline, and the season was taking a toll...they were a team in decline.

Bama got healthy, we got complacent. We didn't have what they could do with healthy players on tape because they'd been injured so long....I truly believe if there was no bye week, we had a good chance to win.

That and $7 will buy a shitty cup of coffee though.

My father went to LSU in the 70s and he said it was exactly the same as it is now. LSU would get blown out or Alabama would somehow find a way to win every close game. Some things don’t change.

I feel like the bye week amplifies whatever mojo is involved.

Partial blame may be the fact that we wear our “home” white jersey. This allows them to wear their red home jerseys. I think the look works against us.

I’m old enough to have suffered the same dominance from Bear Bryant.

They have earned the intimidation factor over the years. So, even when we have a chance, we still lose. Quinn dropping a first down pass, then, Yelden scoring where the Honey Badger would have made the play still haunts me.

It's crazy.

From 2000-2011 (the year of the 9-6 game), we were 9-3 against them. As an LSU fan since 1983, and knowing the history of this series, I thought the tide had turned (pun intended).

Then the debacle on 1/9/12, setting in motion where we are now. We are 2-14 against them overall since then, including 1-7 at home. If there is a way to lose, LSU will find it. Sure, some of the games have been blowouts, but it's the close losses that really hurt (2012 and 2014 in particular).

Even the wins were tough. We built a big lead in the game in our dream season of 2019 and held on for a 46-41 win on the road - even with Burrow and company, it still was not easy. Then in 2022, Kelly in his first season gambles correctly by going for 2 and we eke out a 32-21 OT thriller. After that one, many of us felt that BK was the right hire, and we know how that ended.

This year, we thought that Kiffin would be able to break the curse. We take a 13-10 lead late in the 3rd quarter, only to see the team fall apart in all phases of the game.

I am very happy that we no longer have to play them every year. As much as I hate to say it, they own us.