LSU vs Southern Cal September 29

That 79 USC team may be the best ever, talent wise, to set foot in Tiger Stadium.
It was also the loudest that stadium has ever been, hands down.

Incredible game. Very glad that as a 14 year old at the time, I was able to be in that number.

I was 13 and to this day the best game I have ever been too. I think many feel that way because this was before the amount of games on TV. It is more personal because we know that only 70,000 saw it in person. Many can claim but only a limited group was there. Love to Benji Thibodeaux. It was not a hold!

I will always remember that game. I was 13 and a huge USC fan at the time. My parents put me on the Greyhound bus in Shreveport and I stayed in Kirby Smith with my cousin. Sat in the North end zone. Left the game a Tiger fan.

just imagine how great the game would have been had it been played in Dallas, Atlanta or Houston.

I love telling this story. I was a graduating senior and my brother had "set the date' to get married on this day. I was best man and I didn't think he should be getting married to this chick. With that said, i told him I would never let him forget that he was making me miss this game. I call him EVERY YEAR since and remind me he made me miss one of the greatest games in LSU football history..........and he didn't even stay married to this chick.

He's expecting my call shortly.

Everybody stayed the whole game!

I'll share since it's the anniversary...

My dad was an Auburn grad. He moved to Louisiana and had me. He took me to the 1969 Auburn/LSU game in Tiger Stadium where we opened with a half back pass for a TD. I had, at the age of 12, already been to several Iron Bowls. My mom went to Alabama. That play. That day made me fall in Love with LSU. So later I attended and my senior year was 1979. My dad invited a friend of his from L.A. who was a USC grad to come down. He picked him up at the airport. This was Friday night and the guy was wearing a USC hat and windbreaker. My dad brought him to my apartment just as we stuck the Duh, dunt, duh, duuuuuh into the loud speakers. Back then, just having a cassette of the fight song was a rarity. People were screaming all over the apartment complex. The complex was built around the courtyard and pool. People came out all over on their balconies screaming. It was just turning dark outside but there was enough light left to illuminate this guy from USC, an older man, as he was walking into the courtyard with my dad. My dad had told him, in order to get him to come to the game, "LSU is the nicest place on earth. They will literally stand up and cheer as the opposing team comes on the field and leaves both..." The guy bought it to fly all the way to B.R. But when he walked into the complex and the fight song blared the first four notes, people went crazy. Friday night. Then they collectively saw this old man with his USC garb. People began to scream, cuss and point at the guy. There were some drunks - a bunch of them, er, us - that were jumping from the second floor balconies to get a chance to run at this guy. There were no less than 20 people around him screaming at him at the top of their collective lungs, "TIGER BAIT!!! TIGER BAIT!!" He was genuinely afraid and so was I. It was intense. No sooner had that happened and someone screamed, "The USC Team bus is headed to the stadium right now..." Everyone left to head over there immediately. There we screamed and waited with thousands for the buses and when they came down over the hill so the USC players could take a look at the field, which was a tradition for all visiting teams in the NCAA "back in the day" the place went nuts. IF... IF... I could have had a video of that USC man watching thousands of students rocking the USC buses, screaming, cheering, "TIGER BAIT" "TIGER BAIT" that video would have a billion views on Youtube. Seriously. The LSU of today does not begin to understand what that place and that game was like. I carried two frozen milk gallon jugs of beer into the stadium on Saturday night and the guys checking us in just laughed. Remember too it was free for students to go to the games back then. The game itself has been talked about enough. But the next Monday, the famed sportswriter, Jim Murray of the L.A. Times wrote, "It ought to be against the law to make any writer watch a game in Baton Rouge on a Saturday Night then have to watch any other game on Sunday." I lost that newspaper, which had been mailed to me by the USC man with a note, "Thanks for the best time I ever had at a football game in my life." If you weren't there, you could only imagine the Earthquake Game reaction literally from an hour before the game to 30 minutes afterwards. And we lost... Amazing.

PS... my dad died the year of Cam Newton and we spread his ashes on the 50 yard line at Auburn... the exact spot Cam Newton took off on his signature run that beat LSU, won the title for Auburn and the Heisman for him... My damn dad had something to do with that...

This was my freshman year. It was standing room only in the student section. I stood the whole game. I remember walking down the ramps leaving the stadium when everyone kind of spontaneously started the LSU LSU chant. Easily the proudest I have ever been of the Tigers in a losing effort. I am also glad that the expectations of our program have changed drastically since that game.

I was there

No game EVER has come close to what that night was like in Tiger Stadium...

The 79 USC game is the older generation's 2012 Alabama game.