LSU last failed to win enough games to reach a postseason bowl in 1999.
That year, LSU finished 3-8 and fired coach Gerry DiNardo after eight consecutive losses. The team lost to Auburn 41-7 and at Kentucky 31-5 during a season of misery.
LSU has played 18 football seasons since then, winning at least 8 games every time, and notching double-digit victories in half those years.
Even Les Miles' 8-5 record in 2014 seemed like a catastrophe to some in Baton Rouge.
It still feels preposterous to suggest that LSU may need a win Nov.