The “butterfly effect” – you know, a butterfly can flap its wings off the coast of Africa and start a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico – is the concept that small causes can have large effects.
Well, then, consider this: An Oklahoma State kicker and an Iowa State running back intensified the Alabama-LSU rivalry.
When evaluating the Alabama-LSU rivalry – the latest installment of which is Saturday night in Baton Rouge – and what makes it annually one of the marquee games in college football, it’s near impossible not to look to a night in Ames, Iowa, in late November 2011.