Queen's College Football

There's a point inside every fan where they just wanna forget about the season, and just move on to the next one. I'm feeling the hate right now. We'll start with last years 2007 LSU football team. With star defensive lineman Glenn Dorsey coming back to hopefully earn a national championship, and with 5th year QB Matt Flynn leading LSU's offense with his experience, they looked to be pretty good. But that was only half of the story. Starting QB and later to become #1 overall draft pick Jamarcus Russell, hard Hitting safety LaRon Landry, WR Dwayne Bowe went, and WR Craig Davis, all starters, left to NFL in the first round the year before and LSU's offense looked to be down. But LSU came out to the season going undefeated and grasping the #1 spot until their triple overtime loss to Kentucky. With that loss, they fell down to #8. But over the weeks, LSU slowly crawled back in to the race of things by beating Florida, Auburn, Alabama, Virginia Tech, and South Carolina, all ranked at the time of the game. But then in the last game of the season, LSU looking to clinch an SEC title birth, lost to Arkansas in triple overtime almost mimicking the Kentucky game earlier in the season. Now with two losses on their resume, LSU looked to be out of the national title race. But all over the nation, LSU fans were calculating what it would take for LSU to get in to the National Title. It was official. All that had to happen is that LSU beat Tennessee in the SEC championship game, #1 Missouri to lose to Oklahoma in the Big 12 championship game, and #2 West Virginia to lose to Pitt in the back yard brawl. If all that were to happen, which was a long shot, then LSU would be one of three 2 loss teams competing for a national title bid. Well with all the nation relaxing at home, expecting at least on of the two teams to win, it happened. West Virginia and Mizz both lost nail biters in the end and led all the college football world to watch to see what happens in the BCS bowl announcements. LSU was given the birth to the national title because of all their wins against ranked teams and considering that both of their losses were in triple overtime. LSU went on to win it against Ohio State 38-24, With the spark leading LSU fans to belive in a bright future. Throughout the preseason, SEC fans were raving about how strong the SEC is and arguing over who would win it. With LSU fans with a national championship on their resume, they carried all the confidence in the world to belive that they would again succeed. Well we were wrong. First of all, you can't get any better than winning a national title, you can only be worse, so in the back of our minds, we all new it couldn't get any better. In the begging of the 2008 season, LSU looked to be the national champions like the year before, smoking Appalachian state and winning a close on e against rival Auburn. But LSU had a long hard road in front of them in order to succeed. As the season wore on, the win against Auburn began to fade because Auburn started losing week after week. While confidence was draining out of LSU fans as the days went on, they were still pumped up in Gainesville for their first big test v.s. the Florida Gators. Florida proved to be all the hype in the beginning with Florida taking the lead in only 3 plays. LSU's defense proved to be no match for the fastest offense in the nation. With one loss on their schedules, LSU fans began to think back to last year when they barely pulled it out at the end, but still, in the back of every Tiger fans mind, was that fear of failure and let down. As if one strike didn't make it clear, LSU lost to Georgia in a fourteen point game which was mostly blamed on Red Shirt freshman QB Jarrett Lee throwing 4 picks including 2 for touchdowns. With two losses on their stat sheet, all LSU fans could hope is to win out the rest of their schedule. Their next tough opponent on the treacherous LSU schedule was #1 Alabama. With Former LSU coach Nick Saban returning to LSU for the first time, except this time with a new team. The game proved to be an emotional one won by turnovers. And as they say, a teams as strong as their weakest player, which in this case was QB Jarrett Lee throwing 4 interceptions including one for a touchdown and one in overtime to seal the Alabama victory 27-20. Now with all of the Fight and fire sucked out of LSU's players and fans, they still had to face 3 more mediocre opponents. The next week was a scary one when LSU was down 31-3 against non conference opponent Troy late in the third quarter. LSU rallied back and used all energy possible to pull off a 40-31 victory clinching a bowl game. By this time LSU fans and family were just wanting to get the season over with. But that wasn't it. LSU lost a blow out to Ole Miss the next week and another to Arkansas because of a 20 yard touchdown pass with 22 seconds remaining. Now with LSU's record standing at 7-5, I just want to get out of the season. The future looks good, and their's no doubt that they will be better next year. With all three of their QB's this year being red shirt freshman, they can only get better entering their junior year. Starting freshman Corner Patrick Peterson is with no doubt bringing back his very special athletic ability to next years defense. He's gonna be LSU's next Big star. Starting power back Charles Scott, Starting WR Brandon LaFell, and Speedster Trinton Holiday all returning, LSU looks to have a lot better offense next year. Rahim Alem, starting Defensive end, and Strong safety Chad Moody also returning, will be a force added to LSU's defense. Not mentioning #1 dual threat QB in the nation, #1 athlete in the nation, Russell Shepherd committing to LSU already, which will give LSU's offense more speed with his 4.4 forty speed. Bayou fans, I see a great future for our LSU tigers. GEUAX TIGERS!!!!!!!!