For my entire life as an LSU fan, starting when I was just 12 in 2011, and before that, when Saban took their job, Alabama has been the measuring stick. That first Saturday in November has always told us something about where LSU stands relative to where we want it to be.
Almost every year, that has ended with disappointment. Whether it had ended in the most bitterly close of defeats, the kinds with which you spend YEARS as a fan lamenting the most minute, but singular of breaks, wondering “what if they went differently.”
What if Trent Domingue didn’t kick that kickoff out of bounds?