Former LSU football coach Nick Saban hoisted a crystal football on Jan. 4, 2004, in the Superdome to represent his team’s BCS National Championship. Four years later, Saban’s successor Les Miles held up the same trophy in the same stadium.
Four more years have passed, and Miles has the No. 1 team in the country poised for another championship run in the same venue.
Though no players who saw the field during the 2007 championship are currently on the team, similarities between the two teams exist, and senior offensive guard Will Blackwell said he and his teammates frequently look to the 2007 team for inspiration.
“When you want to pick a team from your school to compare yourself to, it has to be the most recent champion,” said Blackwell, who redshirted in 2007. “We’ve still got a little bit of work to compare ourselves to them, but we’ll see how it goes after this