It was the game of the year in college football, and that’s no empty platitude.
Just how big a deal was last weekend’s LSU-Alabama showdown, won 46-41 by the Tigers on the road in Tuscaloosa? Put it this way: The CBS afternoon affair was the highest-rated regular-season college football game — on any network — since 2011.
But Richie Petitbon missed it. The offensive lineman with Alabama crimson in his veins just so happened to be nearly 800 miles to the north — at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Mich. — and playing the game of his life.