College football is a game of emotion. And that emotion is tied to moments, both for better and for worse.
Championships are great and fun and all of that, but you don’t live for those year to year, month to month and week to week the way you live for those handful of perfect moments of satisfaction that can come around every so often. If you’re lucky, you get a few of them during a given season.
Billy Cannon on Halloween, Hodson-to-Fuller, Donaldson picks off Florida, the Bluegrass Miracle; these moments didn’t precede championships, but they are etched in the history of LSU lore, right there with Mauck-to-Green or Tyrann Mathieu’s 2011.