HANAGRIFF: Why this November is different for LSU

There was a time when two early losses could crush a team's championship dreams. Not anymore. As LSU enters a pivotal November, Charles Hanagriff examines how college football's changing landscape has created opportunities that once seemed impossible.

By Charles Hanagriff

November 3, 2026

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Just like starting over

With the sun about to set on the first Saturday in October of 2004, I found myself on the second floor of a daiquiri bar in Athens, Georgia.

There have been better days. We started our trek at 4am that morning in Atlanta to do pregame for LSU vs Georgia, and we were waiting on our cue to start postgame after a 45-16 pasting at the hands of the Dawgs.

That wasn't the worst of it.

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