Florida scored a touchdown. Then another. LSU was leading just 17-16 at the end of the third quarter last season in Gainesville, Florida, when the Tom Petty song blared out of the speakers at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in tribute to the rock star and Gainesville native who had recently died.
“No I won’t. Back. Down.”
“I thought it was a tremendous time for our football team,” LSU coach Ed Orgeron recalled Monday afternoon. “Because we were singing it too.”

