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The LSU
Tigers come from Louisiana State University
located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The team is
also known as the Fighting Tigers and the Bayou
Bengals. They are a NCAA Division I-FBS team but
have been part of three other conferences. They
were originally independent ranging from their
formation in 1893 to their shift into the
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association in
1896, and then the Southern Conference in 1922
until they settled into the modern Southeastern
Conference’s West Division. The current head
coach, Les Miles, has six years invested into
the program and has gotten fifty-one wins out of
the team’s sixty-six games showing a solid .773
tenure win ratio. They are considered the fourth
best team in the Southeastern Conference
currently behind Alabama, Tennessee, and
Georgia. Overall, the team has over seven
hundred wins out of almost one thousand and four
hundred games with a particular .641 all-time
win ratio. In their bowl games, they have been
largely successful with twenty-one wins,
eighteen losses, and one tie. They won the
national title in 1958, 2003, and 2007 to
complement their respectable thirteen conference
title wins and seven division title victories.
They have advanced one Heisman Trophy winner, as
well as forty-one Consensus All-Americans. They
have an impressive array of rivals with possibly
the largest list currently active between
themselves and Tulane Green Wave, Alabama
Crimson Tide, Arkansas Razorbacks, Auburn
Tigers, Ole Miss Rebels, and the Florida Gators
among another handful of minor rivalries.! |