Recalling a great season-1982, 11 points from 12-0, One of 10 best LSU teams?

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Broke 12 year losing streak bearing bama 20-10 in bham

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"I was there when we Beat the Bear LSU 20 BAMA 10" bumper stickers being sold right after the game.

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Recalling a great season-1982

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The loss to Tulane in the "Revenge Bowl" really tarnished that season. Beating Alabama for the first time after 11 straight losses was surely the high point. Wins over Florida and Florida State were also big. But there were just too many stumbles against weaker opponents. We tied 6-5-1 Tennessee, and lost to 5-6 Miss. St. and 4-7 Tulane. Somehow we finished 11th in both final polls on the strength of a 21-20 loss to Nebraska in the Orange Bowl, which invited us before the loss to Tulane. We had fourth quarter leads in all four games but could not hold them.

I would call it a great season that could have been, but wasn't.

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IMHO 82 was one of our best 10 modern teams (certainly behind 58,59,03,07,11,86).

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Surely not if you are counting to the present. 1982 would barely be among the top 10 teams since 2000, let alone the entire modern era.

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Broke 12 year losing streak bearing bama 20-10 in bham

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Close. It was 11 years (1971 through 1981).

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Waxed FSU 55-21 in the oranges game. Upset UF in Gainesville in game no where near as close as score

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Both great games against teams ranked in the top 10 at the time. FSU would finish 9-3, Florida 8-4.

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Gave away a win and tied solid TN team 24-24.

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No doubt we gave away a win in this one, blowing a 10-point lead in the 4th quarter, but I would not consider that Tennessee team "solid". They finished 6-5-1 with losses to Duke, Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech. They did, however, upset Alabama and with the tie vs. LSU finished 1-0-1 against the only two ranked opponents they played.

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Lost as 27 point favorite hosting a bad Tulane team (damn Reggie Reginelli) this is as far as. I know the biggest upset loss we ever have had as far as point spread. And lost close game to John Bond at Miss st.

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We were huge favorites in both of those games. Both MSU and Tulane had losing seasons, but both outplayed us and deserved to win. I can't remember ever being more disappointed in a team than after that loss to Tulane.

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Lost by 1 to Nebraska in a great Orange Bowl.

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Yes, and it took a ton of breaks in Nebraska's favor for them to make the comeback and win. Three crucial ones:
--Dalton Hilliard scores an apparent TD to put us ahead 21-7, but a penalty negates it and we have to settle for a FG.
--Leading 17-7, we sack the Husker QB at the sidelines on 3rd down to snuff out their drive, but a personal foul (either late hit out of bounds or unnecessary roughness) keeps their drive alive. They would go on to score a TD and pull within 3.
--At one point in the second half (not sure exactly when), we kicked a FG but there was a penalty on Nebraska that would give us a first down, so we took the penalty and took the FG off the board. We had to settle for another FG attempt, but missed, ending up with no points on the drive.

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One of 10 best LSU teams?

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No way they were one of the 10 best, and it would be debatable whether they were even one of the top 20. I can list at least 10 off the top of my head that were obviously better, in addition to the six you listed:

1961
1962
1969
1970
1987
2001
2005
2006
2010
2012

A credible case could also be made for:

1972
1973
1984
1985
1996
1997
2013

TN was average...had them beat and let them tie us. That game and Tulane were very disappointing, but we had some real talent in 82.

Dardar in the orange bowl was amazing. Knocked the all American Nebraska center on his butt so many times the announcers finally stopped gloating over him.

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Then the next year the wheels came off for Jerry Stovall. How quickly things can change.

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They had a great offense in 1983 though... Just couldn't stop anybody....

If you watch video of Gault you can see him turn his head toward last LSU defender, apparently (heard from Lsu player on 82 team) gaunt said "beep beep" ala road runner cartoon and took off....dude was very fast....see 22:19 mark

As for a top 10 team, maybe not, but now way 1984-1985-1996-1997-1973 were better, just to start wth...none of those had two top grade wins (FSU at Bama) like 82....some of these had no great wins (84,73,96).

Lot of you would be happy of same thing happened this year

ANOTHER EXTENSION FOR LESLIE

Bar has been raised high since that time;
Maybe a small percent of the CLM lovers but I think most would be extremely bummed!