Brian Robinson apparently didn’t forget.
The scene following LSU’s 46-41 win over Alabama two years ago in Bryant-Denny Stadium was one of bravado from a conquering force. They carried quarterback Joe Burrow off the field into a locker room that included a fiery speech from coach Ed Orgeron who was unknowing live streamed by a player.
The end of eight-game losing streak to Alabama led to the outpouring of emotion that Robinson referenced Monday.
“We all know the last time LSU came here,” Robinson said Monday afternoon. “So with that weighing on us, we’ve got a way of approaching this week. We still feel that feeling from when they came or two years ago. You know, and they beat us on our home turf. And, you know, we feel like we’ve got to respond to that.”
A lot has changed in those two short years.
LSU ultimately won that 2019 national title with one of the more dominant teams in college football history. Almost everything since that night in New Orleans has gone south.
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Alabama (7-1) opened 25-point favorite (now up to 29 points) to beat LSU at 6 p.m. CT Saturday as Orgeron returns as a lame-duck head coach. He’ll be done with the Tigers at the end of the season after the program floundered in the two years since climbing the mountain.
LSU enters with a 4-4 record after going 5-5 in 2020 in a season that included a 55-17 pounding from Alabama in Baton Rouge.
That didn’t clean Robinson’s memory of LSU’s celebration in Tuscaloosa on Nov. 9, 2019.
“That’s something that we keep lingering,” Robinson said. “We make sure people know just the disrespect that was with that, how it made us feel and everything we have to do to make sure that doesn’t happen again.”
Michael Casagrande is a reporter for the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @ByCasagrande or on Facebook.
