LSU is in my mind the defining game of our season. Every one of my cousins is an LSU student or grad and I’m from NOLA so I care more about that game. Greatest game I ever attended was at LSU “the cigar game” as its come to be known. I was a senior at AU, my cousin a freshman at LSU. Glorious.

……Every year since I was born. And they’ve been a pain in the butt, at times, too. In 1963, they cost us an SEC championship in Jacksonville. There were Bob Tyler’s pesky teams in the mid 1970s. Tyler specialized in playing ineligible players. They tied us in 75, and beat us in 76 and 77. The Emory Bellard/John Bond teams of the early 1980s beat us twice. Jackie Sherrill was a REAL nuisance, beating us 1991, and 1992 WITH THE SAME PLAYER. And of course, 4 in a row from 1997-2000. We failed to score on five trips to the red zone, and lost 20-0. Had a slew of punts blocked the next year, and lost 38-21. Followed that stinker, by blowing a 16-0 lead at home with 9 minutes left in the game. In the 2000 defeat, I don’t think Auburn made a first down in the first 3 quarters. And of course, there was getting Croomed in 2007.

…..Those maroons are only 30 minutes from Tuscaloosa, and their shirts are close, too. I can hate ’em almost as much as Bama and Georgia!

I give away my age when I look at the list and think that the only two choices are Florida and Tennessee. That was historic. In the present day it’s LSU by a landslide.

not having the question defined left me without a clear choice…..I mean historically its Tech hands down, but through the last 10 years or so it would have to be LSU. Not having a defined question I put it the most logical way I could…….by tenure. Which left me saying that a team we don’t even play on a regular basis anymore is our third biggest rival…..Ga Tech. LSU is certainly the third biggest rivalry for us now but it has only become that in recent years……by the way Richard Pittman proclaims his hatred for all things AU I am guessing that we are at the top of their list or at the very least a close 2nd. Pittman is a funny little dude…..in reading some of his post recently he has the arrogant attitude of a bammer as if LSU has alway been the powerhouse it is today…..he seems to have forgotten the nearly 40 years of irrelevancy his alma matre lived through before Saban brought them into prominence. It will be fun watching Miles bring the program back to mediocrity and hear the bitching and moaning until he is fired.

…the third biggest historical is GT, while the current is LSU. That’s why I voted for Tennessee…

The worst fans that I ever dealt with when I worked at the Heart of Auburn Hotel right across the street from Jordan Hare Stadium were beyond a shadow of a doubt, LSU fans. True, all of them had their rough fans, but none of them behaved as badly as the LSU bunch. Even the “little old” couples if you will were rude and vulgar and snide. The younger ones were only worse, though. In fact, I had one pull out a knife over the fact that he didn’t get two parking spaces with his one room. I realize you cannot place judgement on any group of fans by your only experience with them, but every LSU fan I met during that stint was at least rude at best and dangerous at worst. You got the feeling they took pride in destroying the city while they were there. That’s not the way all of the LSU fans are, just the ones I’ve dealt with personally.