It's T-minus 22 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:
Three seasons before he was offensive coordinator of LSU's 2007 national championship team, Gary Crowton was in the last of his four seasons as BYU's head coach.
Crowton, a BYU graduate who never played a down of football in college, was the offensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears (before that he was Louisiana Tech's head coach from 1996 to 1998) when he accepted the challenge in 2001 of replacing legendary BYU coach Lavell
Edwards.