re: Worst 5 LSU football games you’ve seen in person

Student in 1987, LSU loss to Bama 22-10. We were ranked #5 and 7-0-1 going into the game. They were ranked #13. Our DEF, which was VERY good, let Bobby Humphrey run ALL over us. We blew a golden opportunity to win and make it to a NYD bowl for all the marbles. I had to listen to some Bama chick in a bar after the game....

1. 1/9 without a doubt
2. 2009 Capital One Bowl vs Penn St
3. 2009 Ole Miss

After that, it all runs together:
2005 Tennessee
2007 Arkansas
2009 Florida
2010 @Auburn
2012 @Florida
2012 Peach Bowl against Clemson
2014 Miss St
2016 Florida
2016 Alabama
2017 Troy
2009 and 2012 (especially the victories) were hard years to be a Tiger fan.

Miami 1988- Rained the whole time but my dad wouldn’t let us leave and we got killed.

Notre Dame 1997- freezing cold, icy rain late and I refused to leave and we got killed.

Arkansas 1993- freezing cold, all we had to do is beat them to finally have a chance at a bowl game and instead we let 3 guys run for 100yards and got killed.

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2. 2009 Capital One Bowl vs Penn St

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Was at that monsoon game. It was cold too and we were so much more talented and so much faster but Les did his normal run run pass and we lost right at the end. The worst field conditions I had ever seen on natural grass. All they needed was some slop and hogs on the field and you would have swore we were in that backwoods of Arkansas.

That 1987 squad was very talented. If I recall that game correctly, there were many players on defense that were out hurt, and it finally came back to haunt us. Bobby Humphrey (sp?) did in fact run all over us. The end of the season showed how good we really could be when healthy as Tommy Hodson and Wendell Davis passed rings around South Carolina's "Black Death" defense and we finished #5 in the nation.

1988 LSU/Miami Baton Rouge
2012 LSU/BAMA CFB Natty
2012 LSU/BAMA Baton Rouge
2015 LSU/ARKY Baton Rouge
2017 LSU/MSU Starkvegas

Miami in the hurricane was the most miserable game I have ever attended. Complete rout in a downpour. My underwear was soaking wet when my wife, who never leaves the stadium until after the team prayer on the field, allowed me to get up and leave.

1. LSU loses to home v Miami of Ohio, 12-21 in 1986. Really the all-time stinker and more than any other game the reason the gold-purple-gold uniform was considered cursed.

2. LSU 7, Baylor 21--Liberty Bowl, 1985. LSU only trailed 7-13 4th quarter yet it seemed much, much worse.

3. LSU 7, Baylor 14--Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl 1963, in freezing weather at Rice Stadium. LSU'S offense that day was as cold as the weather. Tigers led 7-0 early in the 4th, yet everyone could feel a loss coming.

4. LSU 10, UAB 13--2000. Inexcusable, and I actually had doubts about Saban after the game

5. LSU 0, Tulane 14--1973. The worst game ever up to that time.

Yea and Hodson made a cameo appearance in the 3rd quarter and threw a pick. The incredible thing about that game was the Tigers actually led 10-6 at the half, yet it felt like Bama just dominated us from start to finish that night. They really did in the 2nd half.

I remember I couldn't sleep that night after the game. It seemed like that season had so much promise, and to watch it all go down the drain...