The 2002 LSU Tigers weren’t the greatest team to ever pass through Baton Rouge. The middle season of head coach Nick Saban’s five-year tenure was only the third time between 2000 and 2019’s College Football Playoff National Championship season that LSU didn’t finish ranked in the AP Top 25. The Tigers ultimately lost to Texas in the Cotton Bowl, but the only game that really matters from that season featured arguably the greatest finish in college football history.
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