Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Florida Week

Going into this season, I would speculate that many LSU fans looked at the Tiger’s schedule and scrolled down to the titanic battle with Alabama scheduled for November 3.  Many probably looked right past this week’s little match-up with the Mighty Gators of the University of Florida.  Going 13-1 and destroying everyone except the aforementioned Crimson Tide can do that.  But fans with longer memories and longer attention spans than my four year old son are very familiar with the beatings the Gators have laid on LSU over the years.  (Check out the Wiki on the LSU –UF Rivalry.) To wit, my Top 5 Florida beat downs over the last 20 years:

5. 1996: UF 56 – LSU 13. This was a good LSU team that went 10-2 that season. The Gators did win a National Title that season with Heisman trophy winner Danny Wuerffel. But losing by 43?!

4. 2008: UF 51 – LSU 21. LSU rolled into the Swamp undefeated at 5-0 ranked #3 in the country. Starting with this game, the Tigers imploded down the stretch going 3-5 in Miles’ worst season at LSU.

3. 2000: UF 41 –LSU 9. The “Brook Trout Look” game. Saban is much funnier when he loses and this was a serious beating coming one week after the big home win over Tennessee. He used the phrase “Brook Trout Look” to describe the LSU players who were outplayed all afternoon.

2. 2001: UF 44 – LSU 15. This LSU team won the Western Division and the SEC Title Game. Yet the Tigers were utterly destroyed at home by the Spurrier led Gators.

1. 1993: UF 58 – LSU 3. Representing the largest margin of victory in the series and possibly the worst loss in LSU history, this game showed how far LSU had fallen under Curley Hallman. I’m proud to say I sat through the entire debacle in the student section getting up to leave only after the clock had struck 0:00. There is a scene in the movie Fight Club that sensors deemed too brutal to be left in the movie, so instead of showing Ed Norton beat one of his followers near to death, the director presented the faces of the witnesses as they viewed the carnage. That was this game in a nutshell. Hide the women and children and burn the game tapes.

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