re: What loss sticks with you the most?

2012 and the 2015 games vs bama sucked the most! 2015 Fournette was having a season for the ages, we were ranked #2 I think. Just watching us hand over the heisman to Henry was brutal.

I was physically and emotionally exhausted for 3-4 days after 2012 Bama. It was my senior year and that game could've made everything right in the college football world. Hold on in that one and get by UGA, LSU would've smashed ND for a natty.

Speaking of ND, The last 2 games have been infuriating. 2014 Music City Bowl and 2017 Citrus Bowl. Both very sloppy games and LSU played poorly in both. I was at the Citrus Bowl and it was beyond maddening.

LSU-UCLA. I was convinced after beating Duke and Texas we were getting a third shot at Florida for the natty

Tulane 14 LSU 0 1973, still can't believe they ended the streak.

if Okla St had taken care of business vs Iowa St was in 2011. The Bama games in BR in both 2012 and 2014 were equally crushing with similar endings

I watched this a buddy's house...as soon as he crossed the goal line I literally put my dixie cup down, walked out the door and drove home without saying a word. What a nightmare.

Probably the Indiana regional final in '87.

This was the game Scott Van Pelt attended in which he praised LSU football as the best atmosphere in sports. Tiger nation was READY that game, unfortunately only to come up short.

Take solace in the fact that if we win that game, there's a legitimate chance that 2012 ends in another national championship, BUT: Miles is not fired, the offense never changes, Joe Burrow does not transfer to LSU, and arguably the greatest college football season of all-time doesn't happen.

The Butterfly Effect is a bitch.

Hottest game ever

11/3/12.

I had 2 season tickets. I would take my brother or brother-in-law or sometimes my dad to the game. Over the course of a few years before this game, I had taken my dad to several games.

He had never been to an LSU game before he went with me. He was a blue collar guy. Never went to college. He was proud of me for having graduated from LSU. (I know it's not a big deal but it was to him). He was so impressed with Tiger Stadium and the whole gameday experience. It was like he gave me some of the credit because it was "my" school.

Well, he had never been to one of those truly unforgettable games. My dad was with me at the Alabama game and obviously it was shaping up to be one of those games. But of course it ended as a crushing defeat. It would have been easier to lose by 21 again.

Because of his health, my dad was never able to go to another game. Like everybody else, I hated losing to Alabama in the following years but it was almost personal for me because it just rubbed salt in the wound. It's silly but I could never quite get over how my dad's last game in Tiger Stadium and what could have been his one "big game" ended.

Over the following years, we would talk about the games after every game or during the game for away games that I watched on TV. Finally beating Alabama this year was a great memory for both of us.

My dad died recently but I am glad he was around long enough to see LSU finally avenge the 2012 loss to Alabama and even to win the NC. His last game in Tiger Stadium may have gone badly but at least my dad's last LSU football season was LSU's best season ever, including a National Championship and, of course, finally beating Alabama.