The dream for Caleb Lewis to play college football at LSU began when he was 7, the night his parents let him stay up late enough to see the Tigers beat Oklahoma for the 2003 national championship.
The quest continued through high school, when he won three state championships while playing for his head coaching father.
Lewis, 21, reached another goal last week when coach Ed Orgeron offered the former preferred walk-on quarterback a scholarship that will last at least through the end of this fall semester.
"When he called me, I was in the middle of lunch duty," said Lewis' father, Tommy, a head football coach at Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.