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I felt like Aranda would have used him to greater success like he used Marcel brooks and Jacoby stevens here
Worse than the uniforms looking like a coked up pimp designed them is the fact that auburn vs Tennessee is a legit historical rivalry between two charter members. Those two teams started playing in 1900 and played 36 straight years and when Arkansas and South Carolina were let in, auburn and Tennessee were permanent rivals before the sec reduced the number of permanent rivals from two to one. Call me an old fart but I grew up watching these teams play what I see now on tv looks like auburn vs a who-is-that
I enjoyed it. This year however they omitted the abc games entirely. I’ll miss getting a day’s worth of college football for the price of a draft beer
That would be crazy if either Army or Navy was the selection as the one G5 participant in the playoffs. The playoff’s proposed idea is that the first round of the 24 team playoff games would start the week after the regular season ends, but army vs navy is played two weeks after the season ends. In this hypothetical, would the selected Army or Navy decline to play the mid-December game against their traditional rival? Would they skip a year - that game was played throughout WWII? Would they play the first round and if they lose the playoff game go ahead the next week with the Army/Navy game, or would they play the first round and if they win the playoff game keep pushing the Army/Navy game a week later and a week later? Fun to talk about.
The upvote vs downvote split is interesting. I wonder if our strong record in sec championship games (5-2) has many lsu fans not wanting to get rid of the December Atlanta game?

I’ve always felt that if a team is good enough to win the national championship then they’re good enough to handle their business in the conference championship, but I admit that’s oversimplifying things.

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Still bothers me to this day that Les played for the fg and clock instead of the first down when we had the ball to end the game right then and there


And if you get the first down on O. The party in that stadium would have been unbelievable. Taking a knee, three times whil Bama has to endure guaranteed defeat in the final one minute would have been a thing of beauty
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Before the season he said he liked the team, but depth would be an issue.


And to add he has mentioned how relatively injury-free the 2025 ole Miss team was
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Tigers are -8.5. I won’t be happy if we don’t cover the spread…


Speak for yourself. I’ll be happy with a half-a-point win. This is the SEC
Strategy this, strategy that, nah. I think he wanted to just be aggressive, to go down swinging. I think his fan base would have forgiven him because the spirit behind the call was to go for the jugular.

Easy to do when your FG kicker is good from 65
His game plan against Alabama (twenty-seven point underdogs we were) was a thing of beauty
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he’d be all over signing 5th year guys if he was still coaching


I don’t know if you are kinda joking here, but this is 100% correct. This is the same guy who at one time had a dozen high school coaches on his staff in some kind of advisory role and all 12 of those high school coach coaches provided him a five star recruit. This is the same guy who used former Alabama football players to be on the scout team.
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Harold perkins


This guy is a fascinating study as to why he wasn’t better. I think had he played under aranda, aranda would have found a way to use him like he used Jacoby Stevens and Marcel brooks as blitzers
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Deion Smith


This is a really good one. He beat out some great talent to earn playing time in his short time here

re: Favorite recruiting sagas

Posted by BayouPride on 8/8/26 at 10:54 pm to
This thread is great.

Leo Lewis a Mississippi LB who went to State was a good one. Sonny and Shea posted a little before midnight on the night before signing day that there had been a “delivery” to Leo’s home and that he would not be signing with LSU the next day. Cracks me up thinking about mama watching the late night news when the doorbell rings…
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There really hasn’t been an established pattern one way or another.



This is both fascinating and maddening. How on earth Texas A&M got big time production from those two Ivy League dudes (Schott and Appel) is beyond me. That is a not a particularly great league that is really hindered by poor weather.

re: Favorite recruiting sagas

Posted by BayouPride on 8/2/26 at 10:47 pm to
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Ricky Jean Francois holding out to turn 18 so he could sign with LSU.


That was so cool. He was great and I think usf was where his parents wanted him to go. The big Florida schools dropped the ball big time on this one
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the top rank HS player to campus? Kling, Cam Johnson


Inexact science. signed Maurice Hampton
Thanks Project for the wildness data, is it fair to say that our 2026 numbers would have been a little better or maybe even much better with catchers skilled at receiving? That part of last season was hard to watch.