It's Alabama hangover week, usually one of the toughest times of the football season for LSU.
More often than not, it means a loss to the Crimson Tide just erased the Tigers' hopes for getting a chance to play in the SEC championship game and possibly for a national title.
Nine months a year, teams sweat and strain, they practice and train with the goal of winning some diamond-studded bling that screams "We're the national champs, not consolation prize chumps."
When that dream goes ka-put, a head coach must dip in his psychological trick bag to lift his team out of the gutter.