Kicking away an upset
The Oregon State Beavers were not willing to accept a moral victory Saturday.
Not after playing a gutsy, hard-fought game that was decided by a missed extra
point...more
from Mike Tokito from the Oregonian | Fans
enjoy unplanned pregame show | In
Baghdad, OSU fans get to watch game live | Tigers'
Randall gets a chance to play closer, too
Game’s fans friendly; result isn’t for OSU
BA monsoon, lightning and more than 60 minutes of gripping football Saturday
left Oregon State and Louisiana State fans wringing wet on a crazy night on
the Bayou...more
from Gary Horowitz of the Statesman Journal. | More
Tigers celebrating after Beavers don't get their kicks
The poor kid's number said it all: 13.
Freshman Alexis Serna is down on the field kneeling, pounding the Tiger Stadium turf. He wanted to hide. But couldn't find a place. There was that face of classic frustration, a young man who had just left a packed house of 91,828 in a state of joyous disbelief and left an Oregon State football team in a state of utter bewilderment...more from Peter Finney of the Time Picayune.
Tigers notch wild overtime win
Nobody should have been surprised the season opener in Tiger Stadium needed
overtime for resolution. This football game had everything else you could want
-- and certainly a few things you wouldn't...more
from Carl Dubois of The Advocate.
LSU escapes Oregon State upset bid in overtime
The third time was the charm.
Oregon State’s Alexis Serna missed his third consecutive extra point to help No.
3 LSU to a 22-21 overtime victory over 18-point underdog Oregon State Saturday
night before a thrilled 91,828 at Tiger Stadium...more
from the Lafayette Advertiser. |
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No. 4 LSU Edges Oregon State 22-21 in OT
LSU can thank an Oregon State kicker who could not make extra points for its
season-opening victory. Alexis Serna missed three extra points Saturday night,
including one that would have forced a second overtime, and No. 4 LSU escaped
with a 22-21 victory over the Beavers...more
from Mary Foster of the Associated Press.
Serna part of kicking lore after missed PATs, loss to LSU
All Alexis Serna had to do was make one kick, one lousy extra point, and Oregon
State's upset for the ages would have been complete. Those stereotypes about the
Pac-10 not being able to muscle up to the likes of LSU would have been busted.
What the BCS couldn't put together (Southern California-Louisiana State), Serna
could have ripped apart with one swing of the leg. With the world watching,
Serna couldn't make a simple kick that would have brought Southern football to
its knees...more
from Dennis Dodd of SportsLine.com.
Beaver believers get an earful
It's 8 a.m. Saturday morning, and three Oregon State alums are gathered around
the ESPN "College Gameday" stage on the LSU campus.
As they walk up to the growing crowd of about 500 people, they are serenaded
with the chants of "Tiger bait!" After the show, they were offered beer and
barbecue...more
from Cliff Kirkpatrick of the Gazette Times.
Instant Analysis: Oregon State at LSU
If you're a romantic who thinks about sports the way Grantland Rice wrote about
the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, this exhausting, wrenching battle between
Oregon State and Louisiana State represented everything that makes college
football a supreme sporting spectacle and a national treasure that we in America
are incredibly lucky to have...more
from Matthew Zemek of CollegeFootballNews.com.
Beavers’ blow three extra-points in heartbreaking loss on the
Bayou
For nearly 59 minutes, Oregon State had Louisiana State by the throat, its
national championship of a year ago a distant memory.
And then what would have been the biggest regular-season victory in OSU history
slipped away...more
from Kerry Eggers of the Portland Tribune.
Foot fault
Being so close made the loss even more painful.
Unranked and 18-point underdogs, Oregon State came into Death Valley and nearly
shocked the nation Saturday night...more
from Cliff Kirkpatrick of the Gazette Times. |
OSU notebook
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