Yes, the streak is over.

Ding, dong, the witch is dead.

Yeah LSU beat Alabama. Finally.

On Sunday, the Tigers added the No. 1 spot in the coaches poll to the No. 1 spot they already had in the AP poll.

They figure to add the No. 1 spot in the CFP rankings to the list on Tuesday night. Even if they don’t, who cares?

As long as they keep winning they’re going to be in the Playoff. And their biggest obstacle – at least in the regular season – has been cleared.

LSU 46, Alabama 41.

The Tigers finally caught the Tide. After 8 losses that probably seemed like a lot more to them.

They’re on their way to their first SEC West Championship since 2011.

They might even be able to lose in the SEC Championship and qualify for the CFP.

But that’s not really something to be concerned with right now.

Given the way they’ve been playing – and especially given the way they played against Bama on Saturday in Bryant-Denny Stadium – all that they should be thinking about is doing in the next 4 games what they’ve done in the first 9 this season.

Georgia is going to win the East. It’s a really good team – ranked No. 5 in both polls.

But LSU already has beaten 4 top 10 teams. What’s a fifth? Especially when you’ve just exorcised those Bama demons.

Yeah, Sunday was the first day of the rest of the Tigers’ lives – the start of the post-Bama losing streak era.

That win Saturday was monumental for so many reasons – the impact on this season, the psychological healing because of who they beat, where they beat them and how they beat them. The recruiting implications. Not to mention Joe Burrow’s Heisman and Ed Orgeron getting his long-overdue due.

Lots and lots of big stuff.

But this still has to be kept in perspective. It’s a really, really big step for Orgeron and the LSU program. But it’s still a just a step toward bigger things, a step that won’t seem quite so big in just a few short weeks if the Tigers don’t continue to take care of business.

The 2011 season has been a big part of the LSU conversation recently and it’s still relevant in the wake of Saturday’s game.

Style-wise, this victory over Bama was nothing like the last victory over Bama – that 9-6 overtime slugfest 8 years ago.

But there are similarities. That too was a monumental victory even though there wasn’t a losing streak hanging over the Tigers’ heads.

It was the first Game of the Century and it was an epic defensive version of Saturday’s offensive epic in the most recent Game of the Century.

So there was every reason for LSU to admire what it had done, but then – like now – there was much left to be done.

Yeah, in 2011 the next game against Western Kentucky was of no real consequence (42-9) nor was the following one against Ole Miss (52-3).

But there was still a Black Friday meeting against No. 3 Arkansas (yeah, Arkansas was No. 3 in the past decade) and an SEC title game against No. 12 Georgia. Those Tigers kept doing what they had been doing through the Alabama game right through the end of the regular season.

They routed the Razorbacks (41-17) and then they routed the Bulldogs (42-10) to complete one of the most dominant regular seasons in college football history.

But when you think of that 2011 LSU team, you don’t think of one of the most dominant regular seasons in college football history, do you?

You think of that win over Alabama. And you probably think more of the 21-0 loss to Bama in the rematch in the BCS Championship.

That win Saturday sure was memorable and the next few weeks aren’t likely to diminish it – not next week’s game at Ole Miss, nor the one the next week against Arkansas, probably not the finale against Texas A&M.

Maybe not even the SEC title game against Georgia.

As a practical matter, for all its significance this victory is just a means to an end.

Ultimately this LSU season is not going to be remembered as the season that the losing streak against Alabama ended.

It’s going to be remembered for what happens after the losing streak ended.