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    One Team, One Heartbeat: LSU's Remarkable Road to the National Championship
    One Team, One Heartbeat: LSU's Remarkable Road to the National Championship
    One Team, One Heartbeat: LSU's Remarkable Road to the National Championship
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    One Team, One Heartbeat: LSU's Remarkable Road to the National Championship

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    One Team, One Heartbeat: LSU's Remarkable Road to the National Championship is the unforgettable story of the Tigers' dominant 2019 season, culminating in a perfect record and the fourth national title in program history, told through dynamic photography, stories, and analysis from The Daily Advertiser and USA TODAY Network.The 2019 LSU Tigers ran roughshod over college football, powered by a historic offense led by Heisman Trophywinning quarterback Joe Burrow. The superstar quarterback was joined by the speedy Clyde Edwards-Helaire at running back, and an explosive trio of wide receivers Ja'Marr Chase, Justin Jefferson, and Terrace Marshall Jr. to put up points in bunches and make life easy for a defense that rapidly improved down the stretch of the season. Coach O Louisiana native Ed Orgeron and his one of a kind moxie brought the high-powered operation together to a perfect SEC season, a decisive win over Georgia in the conference championship game, a drubbing of Oklahoma in the Peach Bowl, and sweetest of all, put an end to Clemson's 29-game winning streak and brought a championship back to Baton Rouge.From the unbelievable regular season run, to the unforgettable personalities that made up this championship team, and on through the magical completion of a perfect season down the road in New Orleans, this commemorative edition is a must-have for any true LSU fan.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJan 16, 2020
    ISBN9781641254755
    One Team, One Heartbeat: LSU's Remarkable Road to the National Championship

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      One Team, One Heartbeat - The Daily Advertiser

      Safety Grant Delpit admires the national championship trophy after LSU defeated Clemson at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. (Mark J. Rebilas/USA TODAY Sports)

      Contents

      Foreword by Bunnie Cannon

      Introduction

      College Football Playoff Championship vs. Clemson

      Legendary

      Unbreakable

      LSU vs. Georgia Southern

      LSU vs. Texas

      LSU vs. Northwestern State

      Ed Orgeron

      LSU vs. Vanderbilt

      Derek Stingley Jr.

      LSU vs. Utah State

      LSU vs. Florida

      LSU vs. Mississippi State

      Can’t Touch This

      LSU vs. Auburn

      LSU vs. Alabama

      The Night the Tide Died

      LSU vs. Ole Miss

      LSU vs. Arkansas

      ‘It Parted Like the Red Sea’

      LSU vs. Texas A&M

      Misfit Toys Soar for LSU

      SEC Championship Game

      Joe Burrow

      Peach Bowl vs. Oklahoma

      Chuck Cook/USA TODAY Sports

      Foreword by Bunnie Cannon

      I have heard the 1958 Fighting Tigers’ 11-0 national championship football season called magical and perfect. It was the first time in 22 years that LSU won the Southeastern Conference championship; the first time in 50 years it had gone undefeated. The 1958 Tigers were a special, close-knit team, the likes of which have not been seen again at LSU until this season.

      The similarities between the two teams are borderline cosmic. Each team started the season under fairly new head coaches. Paul Dietzel was entering his fourth season in 1958. Ed Orgeron was also entering his fourth season, if you count 2016 when he was interim head coach. Each team held a super power, a special player who unified their squads. In 1958, it was my dad, tailback Billy Cannon. In 2019, it was quarterback Joe Burrow. Both players would win the coveted Heisman Trophy, and as a result become iconic heroes at LSU, in Louisiana and nationally.

      Interestingly, Burrow visited LSU to consider a graduate transfer from Ohio State just a week before Cannon passed away peacefully on May 20, 2018, at age 80. Did the famed No. 20 know Burrow was coming? Probably so, because he knew most things related to LSU football before they happened. On that day, he passed the torch and went home.

      My dad always wanted to share the Heisman Trophy with another Tiger. On several occasions he thought he would — quarterback Bert Jones in 1972, quarterback Tommy Hodson in 1988 and 1989, defensive back Tyrann Mathieu in 2011 and tailback Leonard Fournette in 2015. When he was introduced as LSU’s only Heisman trophy winner, his response was always, Yet! Yet is now.

      The LSU Tigers gather around senior Stephen Sullivan for the pre-game huddle in New Orleans. (Stephen Lew/USA TODAY Sports)

      There would have been no one happier than my dad that Burrow now shares the honor of winning the Heisman. Burrow is an incredibly gifted, hard-working young man with an incredibly grounded family and support system. There is no one more deserving to carry the torch for LSU.

      No. 20 would have been so happy to see the accolades of the 2019 Tigers.

      Football was such a big part of my dad’s life, especially in his golden years. He was a master of the game, and he studied it. He would be amazed at how well the 2019 Tigers’ talent has developed — the speed and agility of Ja’Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson at wide receiver, the power and perseverance of Clyde Edwards-Helaire at tailback, or the passion of Breiden Fehoko and Rashard Lawrence on the defensive line. I wish my dad were here so I could have heard his commentary on this magnificent team.

      Another factor that both teams seem to have is the camaraderie between players and coaches. Cannon would have been so supportive and proud of Coach Orgeron, offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger and the entire coaching staff for all they have done to work with this amazing team.

      Orgeron has overcome adversity in his career and has finally acquired his dream job at LSU. He had the foresight to promote Ensminger and to keep defensive coordinator Dave Aranda. Ensminger has flourished as offensive coordinator and helped recruit former Saints assistant coach Joe Brady to become the pass game coordinator. My dad would have loved to see LSU’s Dream Team of coaches come alive and a passing offense he always believed LSU should have.

      If he were still here, I can picture him in the Moran’s suite in Tiger Stadium, sitting in seat No. 9 — the seat he sat in every game for about eight years — with his steely blue eyes watching the game intently, a wad of chewing tobacco in his cheek while holding a spit cup. Cutting those eyes briefly and glancing over saying, It just doesn’t get much better than this!

      The icing on the cake? What team did the 1958 LSU national champions beat, 7-0, to finish their perfect season on Jan. 1, 1959, in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans? Clemson. Coincidence?

      The players, coaches and scores were different, but the heart is the same.

      One Team, One Heartbeat. … Or, make that Two Teams, One Heartbeat.

      FOREVER LSU!

      — Bunnie Cannon, Executive Director, Tiger Athletic Foundation, LSU B.A. 1992 & LSU M.S. 1997

      Introduction

      by Glenn Guilbeau

      Once upon a time, a Cajun man was literally Born on the Bayou in Larose, Louisiana, and took a route as meandering as the Mississippi River itself to his dream job — a national championship as LSU’s head football coach.

      And on the night of Jan. 13, 2020, he paddled his proverbial pirogue up the Mighty Mississippi, which curves just blocks from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, where his Fighting Tigers of LSU defeated Clemson to win the national championship and finish off the greatest season in program history at 15-0.

      The only previous undefeated national champion at LSU was the 1958 team that finished 11-0 after a 7-0 win over Clemson in the Sugar Bowl in Tulane Stadium in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 1959.

      There’s no way I could have written a better script, LSU coach Ed Orgeron said. No way.

      And he did it with a roster full of fellow Cajuns, Louisianans, and converted Louisianans, such as a quarterback from The Plains, Ohio, named Joe Burrow — aka Jeaux Burreaux.

      I’ll always feel like I’m from Louisiana. This place and its people embrace you like one of their own, said Burrow, a transfer from Ohio State.

      And they embrace you back after you leave like a prodigal son, which is what Orgeron did at age 18 as a freshman at LSU. He quit the Tigers football team in August 1979 after signing as a top lineman out of South Lafourche High in Galliano, where he was recruited by Alabama coach Bear Bryant.

      Yeah, there was unfinished business when I left LSU, Orgeron said as his return reached its climax in the Crescent City — just 62 miles from his birthplace. I didn’t give myself a chance to compete at the highest level like I should have as a player. So I was a little disappointed in myself. I wanted to get the chance to come back to LSU and prove myself.

      His golden opportunity came on Sept. 25, 2016 — the day coach Les Miles was fired after an 18-13 loss at Auburn that dropped the Tigers to 2-2 after being ranked No. 5 to start the season. He was named interim head coach and answered with a 5-2 record, got the permanent job two days after a 54-39 Thanksgiving Night win at Texas A&M in the regular season finale, and won the Citrus Bowl over No. 15 Louisville to finish 6-2.

      A view from the top of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome as Joe Burrow takes a snap in the third quarter of the College Football Playoff national championship game against Clemson (James Lang/USA TODAY Sports)

      But a 9-4 season followed with the same offensive problems that plagued Miles.

      Orgeron reacted swiftly, firing his hand-picked offensive coordinator Matt Canada, and returning old friend Steve Ensminger to the job. LSU went 10-3 in 2018, marking its first double-digit win season since 2013.

      Then he made the bold move that jettisoned LSU into the era of aerial offense that had spread throughout the nation for years as the Tigers clung to a more conservative, outdated scheme. Orgeron hired 29-year-old lower offensive assistant Joe Brady from the New Orleans Saints. Brady had all of two seasons as a full-time assistant in college football.

      Paired with Burrow under the watchful eye of

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