Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Marx is the author of “Walking with Tigers: A Collection of LSU Sports Stories” and five other books. You can follow him on Twitter: @LSUTigersBook
For Ed Orgeron and family, his first Louisiana Saturday night as head football coach of LSU will long be remembered for all the good things that happened on the field at Tiger Stadium: his team’s 42-7 pounding of Missouri last night, the staggering 634 yards of offense (a school record against an SEC opponent), a dominant defensive effort that yielded no points until late in the game.