BATON ROUGE, La. — You knew this would be a different type of road trip when you stepped off the plane at the airport serving Louisiana’s capital city, and were greeted by a welcome sign in garnet and black.
It was only a hint of what was to come, on a game weekend which was supposed to be in another SEC capital city, but was moved from South Carolina due to flooding in Columbia. So if facing seventh-ranked LSU and Heisman Trophy favorite Leonard Fournette wasn’t bad enough, now the Gamecocks have to do it in Tiger Stadium, which for this first-time visitor easily ranks among the most physically imposing home fields in all conference, if not the nation.