No. 14 LSU’s game with surging South Alabama features one coach who played Louisiana high school football and grew up going to Tiger Stadium against a coach from Boston who didn't move down South until he was 60 years old.

If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere,” Frank Sinatra once sang of New York City. The same holds true for opposing players at LSU’s Tiger Stadium. South Alabama freshmen Gio Lopez and Fluff Bothwell have been setting football fields on fire in the early going this season,

With the Bruins now representing the Big Ten, it marks the first time a team from that league has ventured into Tiger Stadium since 1987 when then-No. 4 LSU and then-No. 7 Ohio State went to the wire in a 13-13 tie in late September in Death Valley.