{"id":6629,"date":"2018-10-12T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=6629"},"modified":"2018-10-12T14:03:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T19:03:19","slug":"top-25-college-football-flashback-2018-week-7-lsu-vs-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/top-25-college-football-flashback-2018-week-7-lsu-vs-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 College Football Flashback (2018 Week 7) \u2013 LSU vs. Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost exactly 40 years ago, Georgia and LSU met each other in college football for the first time since the Eisenhower administration. LSU, ranked #11 and playing at home in Tiger Stadium, was a one-touchdown favorite over Vince Dooley&#8217;s Bulldogs.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say the home fans ended up disappointed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/ncaaf\/seasons\/1978\/10-14_ga-lsu.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/ncaaf\/seasons\/1978\/images\/ncaaf-program_1978-10-14_ga-lsu.jpg\" alt=\"LSU TIGERS VS. GEORGIA BULLDOGS (OCTOBER 14, 1978)\" width=\"600\" height=\"792\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trailing 17-7 after one half, Georgia struck back when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/players\/lindsay-scott-1.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lindsay Scott<\/a> returned the second half kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown. LSU, who turned the ball over twice in the half, gave up 17 unanswered 3rd quarter points en route to a 24-17 upset loss.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia&#8217;s two other touchdowns came on runs of 24 and 6 yards from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=willie-mcclendon-1,willie-mcclendon-1&amp;search=Willie+McClendon&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Willie McClendon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs ended the 1978 with a #11 rank and earned a berth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/ncaaf\/bowls\/bluebonnet\/1978-bluebonnet-bowl.html\">1978 Bluebonnet Bowl<\/a>. LSU suffered two more losses and eventually fell out of the Top 25. They ended their campaign with a loss to Missouri in the 1978 Liberty Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We flash back to 40 years ago, when unranked Georgia shocked #11 LSU at Tiger Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[59,26,624,396,290,570],"class_list":["post-6629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic-programs","tag-1970s","tag-college-football","tag-flashback","tag-georgia-bulldogs","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-top-25","wpcat-61-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6632,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions\/6632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}