LSU’s hammering at the hands of Mississippi State wasn’t just an embarrassment – for Tigers fans, losing in that fashion feels like a return to the bad old days. Saturday’s 37-7 loss to Mississippi State tied for the eighth-heaviest conference loss for the Tigers since the SEC began divisional play in 1992.
Worse still, most of those defeats came during LSU’s years of struggle in the 1990s, when first Curley Hallman and then Gerry DiNardo coached the team.
The Tigers were just one more score away from their worst loss of the last 20 seasons.