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Kentucky has overperformed against LSU over the past 40 years.

This will be the 23rd meeting in 40 years. LSU is 14-8 going back to 1986.

If you just want to go back to 1991 (25 years) - LSU has a losing record @Kentucky.

Yes, Kentucky has only beaten LSU in Tiger Stadium 5 times - ever - with the series starting only in 1949. But this game isn't in Tiger Stadium.

It's not impossible - I mean Clowny Hallman coached a win @Lexington. But, we haven't won either game there since Saban and one of the teams that lost was a championship team (2007).

Having said all of that - I'm optimistic. Joe Sloan is not a great coordinator. They are a good matchup for this LSU team.

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LSU has played Alabama in football on 90 occasions since 1895, losing about 2 out of every 3 contests. It is interesting to note that LSU won the first 2 games, yet haven't had a lead in the series since the end of the 4th game.

Going back to the roughly mid-point of both Mac and Bear Bryant eras, respectively, for LSU and Alabama saw, the starting point for particularly ugly streak on our side of the equation:

Through the 1970 contest (in Birmingham), LSU had won 10 games (back-to-back 1969 in Tiger Stadium, 1970 in Birmingham), Bama 20 and there had been 4 ties. Bama's record was bolstered by a 5-game winning streak through 1968 leading up to this "high water mark" of the McClendon era (1969 is generally considered his best defense and probably best overall team).

After the 1969 game, Bama would go on an impressive 14-0-1 "not losing" streak in Tiger Stadium, unbroken until 2000 (the Angry Little Man from West Virginia's first season at LSU). Beginning 1971 game and through 2000, LSU was 7-22-1 against Bama, with only 1 win in Tiger Stadium. It is a strange series over that time as, particularly beginning in 1980 or thereabouts, home field advantage is flipped, particularly so for Bama in Tiger stadium. Of LSU's 19 wins against Bama since 1969, only 6 have been in Tiger Stadium. Only Miles and Saban have more than 1 win in Baton Rouge against Bama.

Arns, certainly the best LSU coach between Mac and Saban was 1-1-1 against Bama (winning in Birmingham, losing 1, tying 1 in TS). Each of "loser" coaches Archer, Clowny Hallman and Dinardo won a single game against Bama (all in Tuscaloosa).

LSU's longest win streak during the period is 5, 2003 - 2007 (Saban 2, then Miles 3). No other win "streak" by LSU against Bama in football history has exceeded 2 games. Bama has had win streaks of 11 games, 8 games, 5 games and a smattering of 3s and 4s over that 90-game span.

TLDR: I want to consistently beat Bama before I "feel" anything positive about an upcoming match with the Tide.

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The TN botched execution is such a perfect representation of America in 2026

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I reluctantly agree with you. I wish it weren't so accurate, but it is.

The solution is simple. Every state should default to long drop hanging. This is a relatively inexpensive, relatively foolproof method of execution.

Allow the condemned to select firing squad as an alternate. This is a simple additional duty that any State's elite police unit could train on.

Then we're not mucking about with electricity, gas, lethal drugs, gurneys or medical professionals - beyond the simple confirmation that the sentence has been carried out.

We never should have complicated something so simple as execution. Folks have been getting executed (rightfully in many cases) since the dawn of man.

#Dontoverthinkit

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This is some of the dumbest shite I’ve read on this board

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True. Tell these same folks, "You have this big, paid off house. Stop maintaining the lawn and see what happens. Stop keeping up with the maintenance of the roof, the physical plant and see what happens", and they'll look at you like you're from Mars.

I get it. I don't like taxes, either.

I mean, honestly, they should make that mascot a little less fetching if they don't want Kiwis to fantasize about it.

#Justsayin'

Somewhat related, when was the last time LSU played 4 QBs in the same game?

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Didn’t she only find out her dad was Steven Tyler after she was a teenager?

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They thought/suspected that Todd Rundgren was her father.

#Momgotaround

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I was thinking dudes for this clown.

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Yeah, but since they're called "Ladyboys", he thinks it's okay.

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but I’m not done with this bad boy yet.

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Well, something is going to take you home.

But not this. Not today.

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