The "Baton Rouge people are mean to us" stories are starting already...

Aubies never cease to entertain me. LINK

There is a reason we haven't won in Red Stick in 20 years. Several of them, actually, but they all come back to the same thing:

Bammer may own the refs, but LSU owns the field. A few reminders of how this works:

With AU backed up deep in our own end of the field in a tight game, as our QB lines up for the snap, there is a ref's whistle blowing the play dead. Everyone in the stadium hears it, except the refs and LSU players. AU loses a chunk of yardage, and then the game.

AU goes to LSU with an AA candidate at K. We run up and down the field on them all day, only to lose close. We missed 5 FGs. FIVE. Why? LSU sideline security refused to give our K space to warm up, and constantly messed with him during the game.

AU goes to LSU on a very hot, humid day for a 2:30 game. The visitors sideline is of course in full sun for the entire game, as at most stadiums. For some mysterious reason, Tiger stadium simply doesn't have enough electrical power for the "immense" draw that our sideline coolers would pull (you probably have enough juice in any one room of your house to power them). LSU generously agrees not to run their coolers either, but of course they're in shade for most of the game. We lose another close one.

LSU was the first school to openly attempt to ban our Tiger Walk, citing "security reasons".

LSU has allowed fans to rock our team busses to the point that some players thought they might tip over.

I believe LSU was the first SEC opponent to split our visiting fans to the corners of the upper deck. Prior to this, SEC teams always gave visitors one corner of the field in the lower deck. These last four, as best I recall, were all without much or any warning at all.

I'm sure some of you can list more incidents. LSU is going to mess with us. We haven't overcome it in 20 years, and the times we did prior to that were few and far between, and I don't think we do this year. I think we beat bama (barring an officiating miracle, which is always possible with them) and UGA to finish 10-2, but I don't see us winning in BR.