LSU eventually cancelled its opener against LSU after less than two possessions due to bad weather.
Depending on whom you believe, coach Les Miles either said “the need to play was here,” or — and we want to believe this one — “the need to play was sincere.”
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That won’t happen until 9:15 p.m. ET in Starkville, Miss., on Saturday. But the Tigers will enter the territory of the cowbells as the nation’s 14th-ranked team.
That’s where LSU remains in the AP Poll. The essentially-inactive Tigers fell two spots in the Coaches Poll to No. 15, one spot behind Ole Miss.
Last year, then-unranked Mississippi State clubbed No. 8 LSU in Death Valley, jumping to a 34-10 lead before Brandon Harris came off the bench for a late rally that still fell short.
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.
