re: One heartbreaking loss you which LSU could have back

If we are talking basketball give me the 2015 tournament game against NC State back.

I was there and raged so hard after that loss I couldn’t believe it

2004 at Auburn.

Was at both the 2012 and 2014 Alabama games. In 2014, the PA announcer asked people to not storm the field with a minute left in the game. I couldn’t believe it. Of course we all know what happened next.

ETA: We weren’t as good in 2014, and I kind of saw it coming. 2012 still makes me sick, so I’ll say that one.

'88 at Ohio State. Up 33-20 w/4:29 left in the game. LSU was ranked 7th at the time with impressive wins vs Texas A&M (27-0) and at Tennessee (34-9). The loss left LSU w/a hangover as they lost the following week 19-7 at Florida. If we beat OSU, I think we carry that momentum the following week and beat Florida as well. End up 10-1 regular season and outright SEC champions. No way we beat Miami that year in Tiger Stadium no matter what lol.

If 1/9 doesn't count, then I would go for 2006 at Auburn.

That 2006 team was clearly one of the best teams in the country and probably would've smoked Troy Smith and OSU. I also would have loved to have had a rematch with Florida in the SECCG after all the home cooking they got in Gainesville which just kept killing our momentum and made the final score look much worse than it really was.

If we beat Auburn in 2006, we are 11-1 going into the SEC Championship game (and we were #5 in the BCS in real life at the end of the regular season and #4 after the SECCG week). We are #2 in the BCS with a win and get to play for the title in Phoenix.

OFC the sting of that season went away pretty quickly considering we smoked Notre Dame in New Orleans and then won it all the next year

I just hate the fact that my only road games as a student were:
06 Auburn
06 Florida
07 Tulane
08 Auburn
08 Arkansas
09 Bama

frickin 2-4 on road games as a student. But I was at the 07 SECCG, 06-07 Sugar Bowl, and 07-08 NCG so I have that going for me

There are many, but I will stick with my first, earliest heartbreaking loss memory as a very young Tiger cub - Nov. 1, 1969 in Jackson.

Unbeaten 6-0 and 5th-ranked LSU led Ole Miss and Archie Manning early in the 4th quarter 23-12. Ole Miss came back and took the lead 26-23. LSU drove to the Ole Miss goal line in the waning seconds. Coach Mac disdained a 4th down short field goal to tie and went for a 4th down pass that was batted away. Ole Miss won 26-23, in a loss that would come back to haunt the Tigers.

LSU would finish 9-1, and accepted an invitation to the Cotton Bowl to play #1 Texas. But 8-2 11th ranked Notre Dame decided to end their 40-year bowl drought and Texas quickly reneged on LSU and took Notre Dame, ruining a chance for LSU to be in the NC conversation had they beaten Texas.

The players turned down an invitation to the Bluebonnet Bowl and finished 9th at 9-1.

Adding insult to injury, the next year they played ND at South Bend and lost 3-0 after a dropped LSU interception allowed ND to kick the winning FG. The national news headlines actually stated 'If Notre Dame is #1, LSU is #1A.'

We got revenge in DV the following year in 1971 on national TV over ND 28-8.

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2012 bama at LSU and it's not even close. the yeldon screen makes me want to vom even to this day

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Normally I’m against the phrase “and it’s not even close” but damn this is a time to use it.

LSU wins that game, they certainly go on to stomp ND and win the Title.

05 Tennessee and its not even close....