It's T-minus 17 days until LSU's 2017 season opener lifts off in Houston's NRG Stadium against first-time opponent BYU. Each day until then, here's an LSU sports fact (mostly football but with a sprinkling of other sports) that has a connection to the state of Texas or season openers:
Two-way lineman Larry Kahlden of Weimar, Texas, was the only Texan on LSU's 1958 national championship team. At 210 pounds, he was the heaviest player on the team, along with lineman Mel Branch.
In LSU's 13-3 victory over Bear Bryant's first Alabama team, his crushing block shook loose Billy Cannon for a 12-yard TD run in the second half of a narrow 13-3 Tigers' victory.