re: What are your favorite LSU/Ole Miss memories?

I was there with my dad for the Cannon runback. I was 12.
I miss you pop

I've read so much about the overall game Billy Cannon had against Ole Miss. Cannon was superhuman that game. The Defensive stand the Fighting Tigers put on with Cannon on Defense was unbelievable.

1970. Dad took me to the game Archie played with a cast on his left arm. LSU 61-17. But say as you will Archie playing with a broke arm is memorable.

1970 Archie Who was my first game to attend, when I was 6. Changed my life!
But I also remember while I was attending in the '80s, one game we pushed the Rebels back to a 4th & 53! ??

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2014. Stadium and campus was electric that day. Ole Piss fans were cocky.

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This. Fournette and Hilliard trucking people on our final drive, capped off with the TD to Logan Stokes. Then Bro Wallace ran back up the tunnel before the game was over.

I was a freshman in Tiger Band for that game. I also had a couple of classes with Brad Davis, who caught the winning TD. We played music in the stands for 30 minutes after the game when nobody left the stadium. I had one roommate from Springfield who was a big Ole Miss fan. I loved watching him melt for the next week after that game!

2003 game, naturally

Casanova running two punts back for TDs, and LSU dropping a 60-burger on Johnny Reb

Allie Broussard setting a school rushing record vs Ole Miss

After the 1972 game in which LSU scored on the final play, Ole Miss was itching for revenge in Jackson, MS in 1973. If you think the offense is struggling in 2025, look up the stats for '73. Bert Jones had graduated to the pros and Mike Miley was starting QB in a totally new experiment, the split back Veer. Miley's season passing total barely eclipsed the 904 yards rushing total of Brad Davis by only 69 yards, so less than 1,000 yards passing. Norm Hodgins, Jr., was the leading receiver for the season with only 12 catches for a total of 234 yards, and only one touchdown. LSU still won its first nine games due to a stingy defense led by All-American LB Warren Capone, DL A.J. Duhe' and DB Chris Williams.

Hodgins lone TD catch and 73 yards of his 234 total is the memorable play from the 1973 game, a trick play by a team coached by Cholly Mac (if you can believe that), who must have alerted the game officials in advance. The play involved a quick pass to WR Joe Fakier near the sideline late in the first quarter. Miley intentionally bounced the ball off the ground and Fakier caught it nonchalantly as though it was an incomplete pass, but it was in fact a lateral. Fakier then rifled a 73 yard bomb to Hodgins to go up 14-0, and the Tigers spoiled the Rebels night winning 51-14.

Norm Hodgins was drafted by the Chicago Bears and played defensive back (his listed position at LSU, which shows how desperate the team was for receivers) in the NFL for 14 games in 1974 for the Bears, recovering three fumbles.

1959, 1964, 1972, 2014, 2024-- those five games were classics.

Some of mine besides so man that have been listed:

-'72 Bert-to-Brad FTW. I was a kid and lived in MS. One of about two kids in my school that were Tigers. My dad and brothers were all listening to the voice of the Tigers John Ferguson. When we won, we were running all through the house, rolling on the floor, yelling. I hated going to Sunday School and school on Monday after a lost to OM but I went and still love the Lord Jesus.

- '73 51-14 blowout in MS Memorial Stadium. OM was still bitter over the 1s 'put back on the clock' in '72. The '73 beat down helped ease their pain.

- '76 beatdown (45-0). We had lost in '75 on a late 4th qtr pick-pass from Tim Ellis to Michael Sweet. I was there and that stung. Bright spot in '75 was Kenny Bordelon had 4 sacks. But we smoked the Rebs in TS in '76. When the team came back on the field to start the 2nd half A. J. Duhe raced the whole way to the SEZ getting us all riled up.

- 'The comebacks in '77 and '79 in Jackson, MS. In '77, came back from being down 0-21 to win 28-21. In '79, we were down 0-17 and came back to win 28-24. Woodley and Ensminger never lost to OM.

- '84, Jeffrey Dale's 4th qtr pick-6 in TS.

- '12 OBJ's punt return for 6.

They aren't lots of relics left of CFB from my childhood, but LSU-OM is one. Glad we're still playing.