The argument can be justly made that there have been more big games this century in LSU’s football rivalry with Alabama than any other. Or that there have been more memorable moments when the Tigers tangle with the Florida Gators.

But for a pure colorful, dripping with history, deep-fried Southern football rivalry, it’s hard, actually impossible, to beat LSU versus Ole Miss.

Just the mention of these two ancient rivals getting together for a tussle, either in Tiger Stadium or like this Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, makes one want to talk of days of old, to quote an old Irish folk song. The mind flips back to Billy Cannon’s Halloween night streak to immortality in 1959, the Chinese Bandits, Archie Manning scrambling for a touchdown, Johnny Vaught’s ever-present fedora, and the clo

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