The Great Story of LSU Football 2025: The beginning of football to the Brian Kelly era. Paperback – June 16, 2025

The book is written for those of us who love Louisiana State University and especially the LSU Tigers Football Team. You will like the whole story of LSU football from start to finish (not yet, please). We go from the University’s founding in 1860, just about 165 years ago to the beginning of the football program in 1893 through the great coaches to LSU as an annual National Champion contender. The new LSU for sure is the real deal.You will learn that the LSU Tigers are fierce and passionate competitors. From the stadium to the classroom to the research lab to the football field, the LSU Tigers always play to win.After the tells the story about The State’s Flagship University’s founding in 1860 and quickly gets to the first football game ever. Before you know it, you are reading about The university’s first football team and its first season as the LSU Football Tigers made itself known.Louisiana State University (LSU) played its first football game in school history on Nov 25, 1893, losing to rival Tulane (both from LA). It was the first intercollegiate contest in Louisiana. The game sparked a rivalry between the Tigers and the Green Wave that has lasted generations, From there, the progression leads, to more than 127 seasons of great football.This book captures the great moments in LSU Football. It takes the reader through stories about the university’s great coaches to stories about 127 seasons worth of great games. The book often stops in time and talks about a particular player such as Abe Mickal, Y. A. Tittle, Kevin Faulk, ,Joe Burrow, or a particular coach such as Bernie Moore, Paul Dietzel, Nick Saban, Les Miles Bill Arnsparger, Ed Orgeron, and others. I can’t wait to read it.Additionally, you will read the recaps of the greatest LSU games such as when LSU beat Clemson 7-0 in the first national championship, Jan.1, 1959. Or when LSU pounded Ohio State 38-34 in the Jan 7, 2008 championship, or they pounded Clemson 42-25 in the 2019 BCS Championship at the Superdome. Then, of course there is the Oct 31 game v Old Miss in which Billy Cannon’s 89-yard run won the day. As far as the single greatest play in LSU football history, this is it.You will not be able to put this book down Read more