re: Who is Our Biggest Rival?

Alabama

The reality is that LSU is rivals with several teams; albeit, maybe not that teams biggest rival. However, they are big rivals nonetheless. I don’t know how it can be interpreted any other way. Having been a founding member of the SEC, and considering that but for the colossal F-up of Tulane and Ga. Tech leaving the conference, the SEC has been virtually unscathed as a conference for over over 80+ years. LSU has a rich history with many teams in it’s own conference. It instantly has rivalries with several teams in the SEC, depending on who has a good team that year. If Ole Miss or Miss St. or Arkansa has a good team it’s a no brainer that LSU will be a huge game for them. I guess it depends how one defines what constitutes a “rivalry”.

Games. Record
84 Alabama 26-53-5
54 Auburn 31-22-1
66 Florida 30-33-3
55 Texas A&M. 31-21-3
108 Ole Miss 63-41-4
113. Mississippi St. 75-35-3
21 South Carolina 18-2-1
58 Kentucky 41-16-1
65 Arkansas 41-22-2
33 Tennessee 10-20-3
32 Georgia 18-13-1
31 Vanderbilt 23-7-1
2 Missouri 1-1

Ole Miss is our biggest rival. Bottom line is we only perceive them right now to be beneath us - at least in football. No one sucks more to lose to than fricking Ole Miss.

When I was a student at LSU in the early seventies, Ole Miss was hands down our biggest rival. Living on campus LSU had an Ole Miss week. It was the week leading up to the game. The male students would go across campus to the female dorms. The females would throw panties out of their windows at the dorms. The cops would come and nab some of the guys and bring them downtown. For a few of those caught,the penalty was having to miss the Ole Miss game. Many paid a fine instead of missing the game. The guys would set garbage cans on fire and some who were brave enough would pull the fire alarms in the dorms. If you were caught pulling the fire alarm you had to pay a steep fine, appear in court and possibly being expelled from school. I never heard or knew anyone who got caught. Back in those days the drinking age was 18 so a lot of the guys were drunk when they participated in the panty raids. It was a great week to be an LSU student.

List of sec hate

13 south carolina
12 vanderbilt
11 missouri
10 kentucky
9 tennessee
8 arkansas
7 Mississippi
6. Georgia
5. Ole miss
4. Texas a&m
3. Florida
2. Alabama
1. Auburn

Swaggert Bible College

Arkansas thinks we are their rival. They have been so bad for so long though. It was much more enjoyable at thanksgiving with my arkansas in laws

I understand people don't wanna believe it but its A&M and they are the next sleeping Giant much like LSU was.

LSU doesn't have a true rival, which I think is a good thing. Instead, there is a lot of history and a lot of hate with a lot of teams. Given the fact that Alabama has owned us recently, they are the game we currently focus on. But we really hate Florida. And we really hate Ole Miss and Auburn. And we seem to really really hate A&M, not so much as a rival. We just hate them. And even though they've been down, we still seem to get fired up to play Arkansas.

Bottom line is having a main rival takes some of the juice out of the others. I think having a bunch of smaller rivalries keeps us more focused throughout the season.

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1893 to 1950s Tulane
1950s to 1980s Ole Miss
1980s to 1990s Auburn
1990s to 2007 Florida/Auburn
2007 to present A1abama.

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I agree with this. I hate that it changes. That's the problem with not having another good football program in that state. The problem with all of these rivals is we list them as rivals, but they would never list us... so technically it's not a rival. I think Tulane was the only true rival we have ever had.