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-27 posts tagged "LSU"
Elizabeth Greason | Friday, November 2, 2018
It is extremely difficult to go undefeated in college football. On a week-to-week basis, teams drop out of the elusive category surprisingly after a poor performance (or a shockingly good performance from their opponent). No team is immune. At this point in the season, we’ve narrowed the field of undefeateds down to just four remaining
Marek Mazurek | Monday, January 1, 2018
ORLANDO, Fla. — Today is the first day of 2018, but for many it still feels like 2017. For Brian Kelly, it must feel more like 2014. That year, the Irish were ranked as high as No. 5 before losing the final four games of the season. But a 31-28 win over LSU in the
Marek Mazurek | Monday, January 1, 2018
ORLANDO, Fla. — Leading up to No. 14 Notre Dame’s matchup with No. 17 LSU in the Citrus Bowl, there were comparisons to the 2014 Music City Bowl. Notre Dame (10-3) was playing the same team — LSU (9-4, 6-2 SEC) — on the heels of a disappointing end to a promising season. And just
Observer Sports Staff | Sunday, December 31, 2017
Ben Padanilam, Editor-in-Chief It’s been over a month since Notre Dame last took the field. And it didn’t exactly have a ton of momentum heading into that month, having lost two of its last three games. The Irish didn’t seem to pick up much momentum during that month-long break either, seeing four players suspended ahead
Marek Mazurek | Sunday, December 3, 2017
Notre Dame learned its postseason matchup Sunday afternoon, as the Irish will head to Orlando, Florida, to take on LSU in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1, 2018. “I’m really proud of our staff, our players, and to be put in this position on New Year’s Day, really excited for the accomplishment of our football
Daniel O'Boyle | Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Just over a week ago, after a dramatic loss to Auburn, LSU fired head coach Les Miles. Miles had achieved plenty of success for the Tigers, including a national championship and an average of 10 wins a year, but the team had stagnated in recent years, even with elite recruiting classes. There are certainly good
Ryan Klaus | Friday, September 9, 2016
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of taking in LSU–Wisconsin, one of the more entertaining games of college football’s inaugural week. As part of the experience, I had the opportunity to see first-hand the vapid “offense” that has simultaneously frustrated LSU fans for the past few years and barricaded the team from qualifying for the College
Ryan Klaus | Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Since its inception in 2006, college basketball’s contentious one-and-done rule has consistently and deservedly been criticized. Year in and year out, the rule highlights the laughably-conspicuous hypocrisy of an organization that, on the surface, stands for a balanced intersection of academics and athletics, but annually makes a significant portion of money on games headlined by players
Mary Green | Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Senior running back C.J. Prosise’s status for Saturday’s game against Wake Forest is still unknown, Irish head coach Brian Kelly said Tuesday. “C.J.’s in the next stage of the protocol for concussions, and we’ll see where he is after practice [Tuesday], and then we’ll be able to know more about where he is,” Kelly said,
Alex Carson | Monday, November 2, 2015
I’m going to start my column like you might expect an eighth-grade term paper to start: F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of one of the greatest books of all time, once said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain