After the inevitable thrashing, I will not bitch any about the outcome. This game is absolutely no way to gage how the season will go (okay, so ONE of them is kinda in the national title hunt). It’s the first one. You wouldn’t want to base all of your more…intimate relations going strictly by the first one. I mean you think you’re going along pretty well, and then the next thing you know, it’s 11:45 and you’re at some truck stop on Hwy. 49 wondering if Resolve will discolor suede and whatever the hell prom dresses are made out of. But I digress. Cases in point, since 1991, LSU has lost to State exactly twice. In 1991 and again in 1999. In that seems-like-forever-ago era from 1997-2000 when State had the Western Division’s best overall record LSU won 3 out of the four games with the overall score being 126-70. The 1998 MSU team that won the SEC West? Lost to LSU (finished 4-7) 41-6. So historically, sure, we’re kinda due, averaging a win every eight years. Keep in mind that some of those LSU teams were pretty bad. Curley freaking Hallman beat them 3 out of 4 times. Gerry DiNardo lost to State once (barely, but it still counts) and got canned a month later.
Awww. Cheer up guys, there's one surefire slumpbuster on that schedule.
So an LSU team that's favored to win the SEC West against the team that...probably...won't? It could be brutal. Good thing the game isn't featured as the beginning of the kickoff...weekend...for...football...DAMMIT, now everyone will watch.the competitive first quarter. But hey, stranger things have happened. Technically there is a chance. And there was an eclipse yesterday. And past results do not guarantee future success (according to my broker). Tomorrow, sobriety pending, I might get around to cataloging the horrible events of heartbreak, booze and the occasional beatdown that surround this game for me.
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