College Football Week 11: Indiana is playing for a Big Ten title. In football.

How about the looks on the faces of the Kentucky bro/dude students who had just stormed the field, upon realizing LSU had won? Just priceless.

And per Rece Davis, he was "The Battleship Lorenzen."

The Cap One Bowl Hail Mary was two years later, once JaMarcus had taken over for LSU.

 

The only reason the MAC hasn't owned the Big East is because the bottom of the MAC features teams that couldn't win DIII championships. But the top of the MAC, yeah.

 

Speaking of the MAC, whatever happened to that Northern Illinois coach who beat three BCS teams - Alabama included - in one year, went 10-3, but didn't go to a bowl?

 

Joe Novak, whose team went 10-2, retired five years ago.

 

I'm not even sure it qualified as a Hail Mary. It was a totally blown coverage.
In any event, that was also Saban's last play as LSU's coach. In retrospect, it's like watching Paul Orndorff piledrive Hulk Hogan.

 

And that was Warren Holloway's only college touchdown.

Randall was still around at LSU at that point, splitting time with Russell (who was a redshirt freshman). Randall started and won the game against Alabama in 2004, among others.

 

It looks like Klein is playing and even if he doesn't the Sams kid hasn't looked bad. Besides, the TCU defense gave up 56 to TxTech, so it's nothing special. And the KState defense is legit.

 

TCU gave up 36 to Texas Tech in regulation, 20 in three overtimes. These Horned Frogs aren't cut from the Gary Patterson prototype, but they aren't a bad defense.

 

Correct. Russell hadn't quite taken over in 2004. He started for the first time at Florida (after the losses at Auburn and Georgia) and dug himself and LSU a quick 14-0 deficit, and Randall bailed him out. Randall started the majority of the games that season. In fact, if memory serves, LSU's quarterbacks at the Capital One Bowl, in the order in which they got into the game, were Randall, Matt Flynn and finally Russell, who led what would have been the first of his many fourth-quarter comebacks at LSU.

Except for that final-play defensive bust. Oops.

 

It was also Holloway's only college catch and it was his final game. Hell of a way to go out.

 

I think Matt Mauck, Matt Flynn and Zach Mettenberger are all the same guy.

 

JaMarcus Russell is a puncline these days, but he was a badass at LSU. He had the strongest arm of any college quarterback I ever saw as an adult.

(I saw Dan Marino in the Senior Bowl when I was 9, and I remember being in awe. Of course, I was also in awe of getting O.A. "Bum" Phillips to sign my game program that day).