re: Best Single-Player, Single-Game Performances against an LSU Defense

Shaun Alexander would be my pick.

Number 2 would be Rex Grossman in tiger stadium when he was a freshman. He dissected our defense all night long.

Excellent point on Bradie. I just remember Roy's running. I also had to sit in the same living room and listen to my damned Longhorn sister scream over my hangover. Not a good family day.

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I also had to sit in the same living room and listen to my damned Longhorn sister scream over my hangover.

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I was at the game. It was freezing cold, early as Hell, battling my own hangover from New Year's Eve celebration, and then having to endure that. Brutal.

Darren McFadden is the guy I'm thinking of. He single-handedly lost us the title shot in 2007. so we thought.

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Shaun Alexander

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He demoralized our defense.

I just watched the highlights of that 07 Arkansas game. Holy shite our defense was craptastic that game. McFadden and Hillis killed us. I saw all kinds of mistakes that you don't see with Chavis around.

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Roy Williams-2003 Cotton. Vaunted Saban secondary/defense. Single handedly won that game.
1 carry for 39 yds TD
4 rec for 142 yds TD.

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We had some injuries/attrition that year. Michael Clayton played some safety that game.

Cam Newton beat a very good defense.

Cam or McFadden. Pick one.

Cam Newton....

and, as painful as this is to admit....

AJ McCarron.... on 1/9/12.

He threw pinpoint passes over TM7 and Eric Reid and made them look like rookies.

Moved Bama into field goal range all night long, and that was all he needed to secure the w and the BCS title.

Alexander was a freshman in that game who had barely played before the LSU game. The Lsu defense had shut the bama running game down until he was brought in. I remember thinking that they were so desperate that they were sending in freshman running backs. The LSU crowd was pumped for the Tigers to beat bama for the first time in DV since anybody could remember.

Then frickin Shawn Alexander commenced to running around the left end and running the length of the field for I don't remember how many touchdowns. That bastard damned near single handedly beat LSU that night and sent every one of us who sat and watched him do it home in an extremely bad mood.

Alexanders performance that night will follow me til the end of this incarnation as the most devastating performance by an opposing player that I have ever witnessed in Tiger Stadium.