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My brother and I were discussing before the NC game began that LSU was in the same situation they were in during the results of the 1959 season. During the regular season, due to Billy Cannon's Unlikely Run, LSU prevailed 7-3, but they were not the better team. During the Sugar Bowl rematch, Ole Miss shut out LSU 21-0, but the game was not that close.

This year, 'Bama was definitely the better team but lost the regular season match due to some uncharacteristic kicking woes and a weird goal-line interception. And during the rematch, again in the Sugar Bowl, 'Bama prevailed 21-0, and the game was not that close. The only difference between what happened this year and in 1959 was that 'Bama got to win the NC because of it, while Ole Miss was voted runner-up to Syracuse.

I happen to think that the 1959 Rebels were the best team ever. (And not just the best Ole Miss team ever.)

Titles 'R Us wrote:My brother and I were discussing before the NC game began that LSU was in the same situation they were in during the results of the 1959 season. During the regular season, due to Billy Cannon's Unlikely Run, LSU prevailed 7-3, but they were not the better team. During the Sugar Bowl rematch, Ole Miss shut out LSU 21-0, but the game was not that close.

This year, 'Bama was definitely the better team but lost the regular season match due to some uncharacteristic kicking woes and a weird goal-line interception. And during the rematch, again in the Sugar Bowl, 'Bama prevailed 21-0, and the game was not that close. The only difference between what happened this year and in 1959 was that 'Bama got to win the NC because of it, while Ole Miss was voted runner-up to Syracuse.

I happen to think that the 1959 Rebels were the best team ever. (And not just the best Ole Miss team ever.)

I thought of that team as well last night, and it even happened in New Orleans.

One our our old family friends played for LSU in those games and his wife mentioned yesterday before the game that she was worried that the rematch with Bama would end up like the Ole Miss rematch in the Sugar Bowl. Pretty good foreshadowing.

willy reb wrote:One our our old family friends played for LSU in those games and his wife mentioned yesterday before the game that she was worried that the rematch with Bama would end up like the Ole Miss rematch in the Sugar Bowl. Pretty good foreshadowing.

downright eerie... same score... same locale (as far as city at least).

JustBlues wrote:

willy reb wrote:One our our old family friends played for LSU in those games and his wife mentioned yesterday before the game that she was worried that the rematch with Bama would end up like the Ole Miss rematch in the Sugar Bowl. Pretty good foreshadowing.

downright eerie... same score... same locale (as far as city at least).

I was thinking the same thing last night when BAMA missed the extra point.

Moral of the story: It's hard to beat the same team twice in the same season. If two teams meet twice for whatever reasons, best to win the last one.

P.S. If you can't win 'em both, that is.

Ole Miss 21 LSU 0, fifty two years ago in the 1960 Sugar Bowl. There is one big difference the 59 team did not let LSU cross the fifty.

The box score of Alabama/LSU game is as follows:
.................Alabama..........LSU
First Downs........21..............5
Passing Yards.....234.............53
Rushing Yards ....150.............39
Total Yards.......384.............92

Score..............21..............0


Take a look at the box score from the 1960 Sugar Bowl involving Ole Miss, ranked #2, & LSU, ranked #3:

.................Ole Miss..........LSU
First Downs........19...............6
Passing Yards.....223..............89
Rushing Yards ....140.............-15
Total Yards.......363..............74

Score..............21..............0

Quite similar where dominating teams in their era -- Ole Miss & Alabama -- , separated by 52 years, beat great LSU teams!!