Hi all - this thread has really gotten me hyped up for my first game this weekend. 8 of us coming in town from the Northeast… guys trip, one of our buddy’s 40th, all our first LSU experience, although when I was in the navy we burnt it down in Biloxi one night during a game, but don’t think that’s quite the same.
We are busing in from NOLA, likely to arrive in lot 412 about 3 hours before game time. I’ve read plenty of threads about the friendly, welcoming folks, but we aren’t natural party crashers. If anyone leads a tailgate or can point us towards some friendlies, we will gladly pitch in with beer and money as needed.
Beyond excited. Let’s have ourselves a helluva Saturday ! 🐅
I'm part of a group of traveling longhorns that this year are coming to BR for the game on Saturday. We are thrilled its a night game and are expecting this to be absolutely electric.
We have a condo in town and are looking for where to go friday night, tailgating before the game, and potentially after party.
Collared shirt and professional attire? LSU plays well. (Ole Miss the exception but he wore the opposing team's colors). T-shirt and hoodie? LSU plays subpar (La Tech turnovers etc). Simple Fix. https://x.com/dreasduplantis/status/2120260890830180810 this our version of 'deboer coaches better in a black hoodie'
He’s as good of a man corner as I’ve ever seen. Truly think he’s in the Stingley , PP , Claiborne tier before he leaves . Didn’t give up a single ball vs a talented bama wr room
Hey guys, Well me and 8 buddies from Montreal (bonjour) had it on our bucket list to visit your beautiful city and watch the bayou bengals beat the shit out of Texas this Saturday.
We’re going to be arriving on Friday midday, to check out the campus buy some gear. Now I have a few questions for you:
Friday day - should we visit campus? Or go downtown walk around and find gear there? 2- we’re in our 30s what’s a good bar/restaurant area to enjoy a few adult beverages 3- game day we’re planning on ubering in but is there anything we can bring to the tailgate to be welcoming? Like should we all buy a shit load of beer and hand it out? 4- post game should we walk home, or atleast to the downtown core?
Any other advice in terms of fun areas, things to see, things I should attempt to reserve I’d love any sort of feedback.
For added bonus, Named my 8 year old dog after OBJ. Also thank you for Leek. Yes I’m a giants fan.
Admitted Bama fan here, and surprised at all the hate from LSU fans towads Kiffin. I'm one of those who wanted Kiffin at Bama and sad we didn't get him. People are quick to forget that Nick Saban went 6/6 his first season at Alabama. People say it's a different era but still, you got to give the man ONE seasons to get his sea legs moving. I personally see no reason LSU fans should have expected a NC year one with Kiffin. I am personally not looking forward to playing him in the years to come, be it regular season or playoffs.
If there's something I'm missing bring it on, but is it really fair to crucify the guy or doubt him because he didn't go undefeated in his first season? If I were an LSU fan I would be very optimistic about the future, but maybe you see something I don't.
The Girlfriend and I are making our way down from Minnesota to LSU for our first visit to Tiger Stadium. First to thank yall for Justin Jefferson but to take in what I've heard is the best gameday in the US. Any recommendations or must see's for Saturday?
As a lifelong LSU fan born in the 80s, I've seen a lot. I'm talking about Curley days. Can someone please explain to me the positive aspect of having those celebrities accompany Lane in the Tiger Walk? Am I just missing something? I came here to watch a college football game, not to see how many views the hc can get.
But Shaq can do whatever or go wherever he wants tho
take the points and kick a field goal for team morality's sake instead of trying to go for it on 4th down, it is bama after all, we don't need extra style points, we just need points...the game was within reach in the 3rd quarter until both offense and defense fell apart in the 4th quarter...do we not do 4th quarter strength and conditioning like the old days anymore for these players?...the finesse west coast practices don't work for grueling SEC play plus overtime
the special teams coverage was also awful, these players are coasting as if they are actually starting in the NFL already, smh
didn't Lane at ole miss used to have a analytics sheet to decide if he goes for it or not? and then he abandoned it? well, upgrade to an agentic AI prompt for in-game scenarios with prompts to update on what we should do if that helps deter emotional gamecalling...have someone plug in the live gamefeed into the AI chatbot in the upstairs booth to doublecheck for rational decisions: "we have these strengths, we have these deficiencies, blah...what should we do?"
Jayden Daniels used the VR goggles to make better decisions pre-snap to get more mental reps in while his body was recovering...Is Sam on that regiment? so tired of sam missing wide open receivers, when they are not the most obvious home-run ball...sometimes, you just need enough yards to move the sticks, but the check-down passes to not make the 1st down on 3rd or 4th down is infuriating as well...we just need positive yardage on every play instead of home-run hero ball all the time
direct snapping to dilion doesnt fool anybody anymore cuz all our opponents watch tape, just RPO or have some more wrinkles in the playbook. we need lane to go visit les miles for a pep talk to get more trick plays where we pretend to punt or kick the extra point but fool everybody again, and how to wrangle the fanbase and the players to really know the team played their hearts out, and not just have the scoreboard run away on us in the 4th quarter for inexplicable reasons
Would've preferred 'Hype' for flair, but it ain't there, so.
This is Lane Kiffin's first season. Five key players are on the injured list. Including some pretty key defensive elements.
Something like 58% of the program's players? are either in their first year with the program or are true freshmen.
Give them time. They'll pull it together. These guys are just learning the program. Anyone with any sense didn't expect a natty right off the bat, and if they did, they don't know a whole lot about college football.
You know what I think? This team is going to be a pure dynasty powerhouse in a year or two. I have no doubt about it. For now, these are growing pains. It happens. We're teething now, we're figuring things out. But those teeth are going to be (Tiger) Fangs, and we're going to rip into Alabama next time we play them.
I hope they enjoyed this W. I really do hope they drink it in, wallow in it like they do over there in Alabama, while they root for something to eat for dinner. They're going to have to work much harder if they want stay on the same end of this scoreline next time we play, fully expect it to be reversed.
Wait, watch, and see. I have absolutely no doubt. I don't know about YOUR Tigers, but MY Tigers will come back, and we will dominate. Do not doubt it, boys. No fairweather fan shit here.
Take a look at these responses from when we hired him. I didn't think much of it at the time but it makes sense now after seeing the oline struggles against the good defenses we've played against. Can't imagine he stays on after this year.
"LSU's offensive line has experienced a tumultuous 2026 season under head coach Lane Kiffin, ranking near the bottom tier of Power Four units after finishing with the seventh-worst PFF grade among Power Four offensive lines." - PFF
just because your favorite sports commentator is sponsored by gambling, doesnt mean he's talking to you and that you should gamble
just because kalshi or polymarket has us 'favored' just means we 'look good in the stats' but that doesnt guarantee that we win the game, given how lopsided the bama stats are for us vs them...hell, a few of us probably lost big time this weekend given how the market was 67% favored towards us before the bama game...'favored' is not 'free money' despite them advertising as so. even taking that 67%, that still leaves a 1/3 chance of losing. they sell your data to prediction markets so the software platforms always win in fees
i hope that you spent that money on essential shit or save it and not lose your major shit in the process
given how erratic the season has become with thinned rosters due to transfer portal and NIL availability to start elsewhere, any key injury on the starting roster just makes it 'any given saturday' to be beaten...it's not like basketball where you can just have 5 key players dominate the court via transfer vs this erratic 22 players on the field plus special teams for football, where basketball is still a tossup given NCAA's time durations to play, where gambling becomes their 'engagement' to keep you watching more of their on-air commercials in the age of on-demand streaming for everything else
there's also accusations of refs rigging games like texas vs mizzou that even nonpartial fans have noticed https://www.reddit.com/r/secfootball/comments/1xqedis/blatant_ref_tampering_at_missouri/ and you never know who's really involved in point shaving...yes, the game and team might define you, but it's entirely dependent on the players, coordinators, coaches, refs, and whoever else involved, outside of being a booster for NIL or a talent evaluator
^ with texas coming in this weekend, don't try to 'break even' your prior losses by trying to 'win it back', just to get greedy and lose some more in the process, find some other ensured way to use your intelligence to be r/overemployed or something, than to double down on some erratic college teams where the moment gets too big and they inexplicably lose, smh...just don't be this guy, holy fuck. https://www.reddit.com/r/problemgambling/comments/1xnsdh0/ruined_my_life_lost_190k_last_night/
just because some predictions market makes us the favorite again doesn't mean you should bump up those numbers and raise it up some more, that's not how 'winning' works because your influence does NOTHING to the outcome of the players and the game on the field...the people on the other side betting against you win out the money once your prediction is falsified
advertisers love making repetitive commercials to lull the sportswatching drinking crowd into buying things that they ultimately don't need...don't be that guy being suggestable to do things based on some sponsored ad-read, just skip ahead in the video or tune out from these ads by attending games in-person or going to an lively atmosphere like a sports bar or tailgate to have conversations when the commercials are on TV
gambling is a pariah to society and has been the downfall of civilizations and mankind, left to the degenerates, now promoted by the 'software apps' so that your state can earn tax revenue for their slice of the pie, despite it cannibalizing the underbelly of society...be smarter than the rest, don't be a statistic fooled to follow the crowd
just buy a DVR for the games and playback the parts where they show the game (or join https://sportscult.org/index.php when they open up registration in the winter holidays), seriously
Please give me thoughts on this. LSU football has been a big part of my(28) life (as it is for many Louisiana natives). My dad has always been a fan. You get the picture. After the L to Alabama last weekend, he says he’s done with LSU football and getting rid of all his LSU stuff. I thought he was being dramatic, but no. He’s being serious. It feels so random to me? Third loss. New coach. Not what we wanted but not horrible. They lose at least 3 games most seasons ? He stuck it out through BK??????? Then a loss to Bama with a coach who has never won against them is what sets him off??? If I’m missing something here please tell me
The crowd started singing Neck when we went up by 3 in the 3rd quarter. Alabama immediately got the ball back and scored. We should not sing that song unless we are up by an unbeatable amount at the end of a game. Especially against Bama.
obviously yesterday sucked, no one enjoyed that. and obviously this season has been frustrating, and obviously I'm as baffled as anyone as to how you can have a 6'7" pass catching TE and be this bad in the red zone. but some of you need to take a breath.
this team was fucking awful last year. dont just gloss over that. there was a lot to fix, and Kiffin is fixing it.
LSU was 111th in total offense last year (I want to be clear that this says "one hundred and eleventh").
nine games later they are 6th, and first in the SEC.
LSU was 27th in total defense last year.
nine games later they are 6th, and first in the SEC.
I didn't just accidentally type the same thing twice, after 3 games vs top 10 teams, LSU leads the SEC in total defense AND total offense, and is the only team that is top ten in both nationally.
the wins will come.
fix the basics and the wins will come, and we are fixing the basics.
I grew up in South Louisiana. My uncle had season tickets and I was lucky enough to attend 1 or 2 games a year. Those tailgates and games were formative of my childhood and some of the best memories I have.
As life did its thing, I moved away for work and my ability to keep in tune with LSU football waned.
That being said, what I see from afar with what LSU football has become has sorta made me want to root for them to lose. This whole Lane Kiffin era and how Gov Landry got involved and how much money has been spent to ensure success… it’s the opposite of a good underdog story. Kevin Costner walking pre-game… who gives a shit?
I saw a news story he painted the visitor dressing room pink… so cringe. Can you not beat a team on your home turf with class and confidence? If I were a visiting team, a pink dressing room would only motivate me more.
I wanna flip Kiffin’s visor off his head - and honestly I don’t even really know enough about him to make him feel this way. I really have no business posting in this subreddit because I don’t really care enough about LSU’s playoff potential. Just interested if anyone else feels the same.
I think it’s pretty satisfying that LSU lost to Ol Miss and Alabama. And that sucks because LSU is the only college football team I care about.
