re: You can change the result of one play in the history of sports....

Hard to pick for Auburn fans.

If the Earthquake Game TD doesn't happen 1988, Auburn is playing for higher stakes than a Sugar Bowl trophy and the refs likely don't let our WR get mugged in the end zone at the end of that game.

And if Kelvin Benjamin drops that ball at the end of the BCSNG game in Pasadena, AU likely wins another one.

Sid Bream gets a hit in the top of the 8th inning in game 7 of the 1991 WS. Either that or Lonnie Smith learns how to run the bases and scores from first on Terry Pendleton's double in the same inning.

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plus they still have a chance at losing the game, which nobody even addresses as possible.

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While it still would have sucked, losing to Okie State in that situation would be infinitely less bad.

I mean put UGA in our position except exchange Bama for Florida.

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fwiw: not disagreeing with lsu fans picking that play and am even agreeing that lsu would most likely win the natty with that change. it's just a weird situation.

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no doubt a unique situation but that's because a) we were undefeated and had beaten them at home b) as you noted the CG wasn't close so we can not single out 1 play, (though early in the 3rd it was still 12-0, LSU's longest play of the night was a 15-20 yd pass to OBJ, on the play TE D Patterson was WIDE open down the field, if Jefferson sees him he waltz's into the end zone. Does that affect the outcome, doubt it, but maybe gives LSU some spark and forces Bama's D to loosen up a little) and c) if they were the "best" team, LSU was 1a and probably beat anyone else in the country and again we beat them in their stadium, IDGAF how close it was or that they could have won, that's why they play the games and in the BCS, every game was supposed to matter.

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helps them avoid alabama in the title game

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I know as an LSU it can't help but sound like sour grapes given the result, but i swear i made these arguments long before that game going back to 2001 Nebraska and 2003 OU. I argued a team that doesn't win its conference. let alone didn't win its own division should not play in the BCS CG. I also argued 2 teams from the same conference should not play a rematch, since the whole point of the BCS was supposedly that the regular season and every game matters. Just ironic i suppose that it was my team that got the shaft

There were some examples of games not involving LSU that helped us in other seasons, the most obvious being WVU losing to Pitt, of course if USC beats 40 point underdog Stanford then they are the ones skull fricking Ohio State, but in that year we could have pointed to plays in LSU loses to Kentucky (dropped pass in EZ, settled for FG, game went to OT) or Ark (Casey Fricking Dick converts a 4th and 10 in i think the first OT). In 2003 if Hawaii beats Boise, it would have helped USC's SOS and may have pushed them over LSU in the complicated, flawed formula used by the BCS then.

Not just ONE play but there were a couple plays that Ole Miss made that cost LSU an unbeaten season in 1969 and a possible national title by beating Texas in the Cotton bowl............... Talk about changing the landscape of LSU football forever..............

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you edited your post, but i think you had said something about other teams we (LSU fans) follow.

For the Saints the only one is the 2012 divisional game vs SF (that was the same week as the LSU-Bama game, what a crappy week for Louisiana sports ) any way stop the last TD or the 60 yds pass to Davis where he got out of bounds that set up the last TD or Thomas not getting a broken jaw and fumbling inside the 5 early and the Saints are hosting the Giants in the NFCCG. Now they did clobber the NY Football Giants in Nov that year, but the way Giants played on those runs, who knows and then there would have been NE in the SB.

LSU basketball in 1987 we played Indiana in the elite 8. Knight went ballistic, pounding on the scorers table, he prolly should have been tossed but didn't even get a T. If we win that the FF was in NOLA with UNLV (not the 90-91 team), Syracuse and Providence was wide open, could have won but who knows.
1990 we lost to GT in the 2nd round by 3, the regional was in NOLA, i think had we beaten GT we make the FF (they did) but no way we beat that UNLV, though we did beat them in the reg season that year.

LSU Baseball, 1998 it got cold one day with the wind blowing in and we lost to USC, if we beat them we make the final vs ASU which USC won 21-14. LSU hit 188 HR that year, i think we could have scored at least 15 (maybe we get 30 ) and win 3 straight.

2013 if Bregman doesn't muff that throw and or one of Ibarra's warning track shots goes out in the first game vs UCLA, i think we win it all. It would have set up really nice for us in our side of the bracket at least, playing NCSt in the winners game but not having to face Carlos Rondon.

Houston Rockets Nothing really. Stockon knocked us out in the 97 WCF, but that was game 6, game 7 was in Utah,

Houston Oilers. pick a play in the Buffalo choke game in 93 and i think the Oilers make the SB vs Dallas. The following year if they beat KC they go back to Buffalo.

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the 59 game vs Tennesse, Cannon and other players swear the UT guy didn't get in on 2 pt conversion,

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Johhny Majors swears he made it in....

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Tim McGraw does not give up a HR to Toronto in game six leading 14 to something and Phils win the series in 6 games 14-to something instead of losing 15-14..

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?????

Tim McGraw is a country singer.

Tug McGraw was long retired when the Phillies played Toronto.

The Phillies won the 1980 Series and lost the 1983 Series in five.

Yup you are right. Majors swears he didn't make it.

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??? It was LSU who went for two late in the fourth quarter - Cannon carried the ball up the middle, some say it looks like he crossed the plane, but the refs saw it different. Tigers lost 14-13

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my bad, i knew it was about a 2 pt conversion