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Alabama–LSU football rivalry
Teams	Alabama Crimson Tide Alabama Crimson Tide football |TeamName = Alabama football |Image = Alabama Crimson Tide Logo.svg |ImageSize = 110 |Helmet = Alabama Football.png |ImageSize2 = 150 |CurrentSeason = 2011 Alabama Crimson Tide football team... LSU Tigers LSU Tigers football The LSU Tigers football team, also known as the Fighting Tigers or Bayou Bengals, represents Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States in NCAA Division I FBS college football. Current head coach Les Miles has led the team since 2005. Since 1999 when Nick Saban took over as...
Originated	1895
Series	Alabama leads 45–25–5
Largest margin of victory	Alabama 47, LSU 3 November 10, 1922
Highest scoring game	LSU 41, Alabama 34 November 3, 2007
Most recent game	LSU 9, Alabama 6 November 5, 2011
Longest winning streak	Alabama 11 (1971–1981)
Current winning streak	LSU 2

The Alabama–LSU football rivalry is an an American college football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

 rivalry between the Alabama Crimson Tide football

Alabama Crimson Tide football

|TeamName = Alabama football |Image = Alabama Crimson Tide Logo.svg |ImageSize = 110 |Helmet = Alabama Football.png |ImageSize2 = 150 |CurrentSeason = 2011 Alabama Crimson Tide football team...

 team of the University of Alabama

University of Alabama

The University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States....

 and the LSU Tigers football

LSU Tigers football

The LSU Tigers football team, also known as the Fighting Tigers or Bayou Bengals, represents Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States in NCAA Division I FBS college football. Current head coach Les Miles has led the team since 2005. Since 1999 when Nick Saban took over as...

 team of Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...

. Both universities have been members of the Southeastern Conference

Southeastern Conference

The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...

 (SEC) since its founding in December 1932, and both universities' sports teams have competed in the SEC's Western Division since the conference was split into two divisions in 1992

1992 NCAA Division I-A football season

The 1992 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first year of the Bowl Coalition, and ended with Alabama's first national championship in thirteen years—their first since the departure of Bear Bryant...

.

Series history

Starting in 1895, the Tigers were victorious 12–6 in the first meeting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and is the second-largest city in the state.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, and research center of the American South...

. The rivalry has been played in Baton Rouge; New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...

; Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...

; Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery is the capital of the U.S. state of Alabama, and is the county seat of Montgomery County. It is located on the Alabama River southeast of the center of the state, in the Gulf Coastal Plain. As of the 2010 census, Montgomery had a population of 205,764 making it the second-largest city...

; Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Tuscaloosa is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west central Alabama . Located on the Black Warrior River, it is the fifth-largest city in Alabama, with a population of 90,468 in 2010...

; and Mobile, Alabama

Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...

. The teams began playing each other on an annual basis in 1964, with Alabama playing its home games at Legion Field

Legion Field

Legion Field is a large stadium in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, primarily designed to be used as a venue for American football, but is occasionally used for other large outdoor events. The stadium is named in honor of the American Legion, a U.S. organization of military veterans. At its peak...

 in Birmingham, and LSU playing its home games on campus at Tiger Stadium

Tiger Stadium (LSU)

Tiger Stadium is an outdoor stadium located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is best known as the home stadium of the Louisiana State University football team.Tiger Stadium opened with a capacity of 12,000 in 1924...

. The series has been marked by long stretches where the home team has struggled: between 1971 and 1999 LSU was winless in Baton Rouge, going 0–14–1, while Alabama has won just four of fifteen games played in the state of Alabama since 1982. In 1988 Alabama began playing its home game in the series on their Tuscaloosa campus at Bryant-Denny Stadium

Bryant-Denny Stadium

Bryant–Denny Stadium, located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is the home stadium for the University of Alabama football team. The stadium opened in 1929, and was originally named Denny Stadium, in honor of former Alabama president George Hutchenson Denny...

. Overall, intensity has grown in the series during the last three decades with the two teams virtually splitting the series, with LSU narrowly leading 15–14–1.

In 2007, the meeting was even more heated following Alabama's hiring of head coach Nick Saban

Nick Saban

Nicholas Lou "Nick" Saban is the head coach of the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide football team. Saban has previously served as head coach of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins and three other NCAA universities: LSU, Michigan State and Toledo...

—who previously coached at LSU. With the hiring, many media outlets dubbed the 2007 meeting as the "Saban Bowl." LSU leads the series 3–2 in the five games played so far during the Saban era. In their most recent matchup, No. 1 LSU defeated No. 2 Alabama 9–6

2011 LSU vs. Alabama football game

The 2011 LSU vs. Alabama football game was a regular season college football game between the unbeaten LSU Tigers , and the unbeaten Alabama Crimson Tide on November 5, 2011. The game took place at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on the campus of the University of Alabama...

 in overtime at Bryant–Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, on November 5, 2011.

Game results

Alabama victories are colored ██ crimson. LSU victories are colored ██ purple. Ties are white.

Date	Location	Winner	Score
November 18, 1895	Baton Rouge, LA	LSU	12–6
November 29, 1902	Tuscaloosa, AL	LSU	11–0
November 9, 1903	Tuscaloosa, AL	Alabama	18–0
December 2, 1904	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	11–0
November 2, 1907	Mobile, AL	Alabama	6–4
November 25, 1909	Birmingham, AL	LSU	12–6
November 15, 1919	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	23–7
November 11, 1920	Tuscaloosa, AL	Alabama	21–0
October 29, 1921	New Orleans, LA	Tie	7–7
November 10, 1922	Tuscaloosa, AL	Alabama	47–3
November 16, 1923	Montgomery, AL	Alabama	30–3
October 10, 1925	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	42–0
October 30, 1926	Tuscaloosa, AL	Alabama	24–0
October 8, 1927	Birmingham, AL	Tie	0–0
December 8, 1928	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	31–0
November 15, 1930	Montgomery, AL	Alabama	33–0
September 30, 1944	Baton Rouge, LA	Tie	27–27
October 6, 1945	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	26–7
November 9, 1946	Baton Rouge, LA	LSU	31–21
November 22, 1947	Tuscaloosa, AL	Alabama	41–12
November 20, 1948	Baton Rouge, LA	LSU	26–6
September 29, 1951	Tuscaloosa, AL	LSU	13–7
September 27, 1952	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	21–20
September 26, 1953	Mobile, AL	Tie	7–7
September 25, 1954	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	12–0

Date	Location	Winner	Score
September 28, 1957	Baton Rouge, LA	LSU	28–0
September 27, 1958	Mobile, AL	LSU	13–3
November 7, 1964	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	17–9
November 6, 1965	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	31–7
November 5, 1966	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	21–0
November 11, 1967	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	7–6
November 9, 1968	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	16–7
November 8, 1969	Baton Rouge, LA	LSU	20–15
November 7, 1970	Birmingham, AL	LSU	14–9
November 6, 1971	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	14–7
November 11, 1972	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	35–21
November 22, 1973	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	21–7
November 9, 1974	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	30–0
November 9, 1975	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	23–10
November 6, 1976	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	28–17
November 5, 1977	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	24–3
November 11, 1978	Birmingham, AL	Alabama	31–10
November 10, 1979	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	3–0
November 8, 1980	Tuscaloosa, AL	Alabama	28–7
September 5, 1981	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	24–7
November 6, 1982	Birmingham, AL	LSU	20–10
November 5, 1983	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	32–26
November 10, 1984	Birmingham, AL	LSU	16–14
November 9, 1985	Baton Rouge, LA	Tie	14–14
November 8, 1986	Birmingham, AL	LSU	14–10

Date	Location	Winner	Score
November 7, 1987	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	22–10
November 5, 1988	Tuscaloosa, AL	LSU	19–18
November 11, 1989	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	32–16
November 10, 1990	Tuscaloosa, AL	Alabama	24–3
November 9, 1991	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	20–17
November 7, 1992	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	31–11
November 6, 1993	Tuscaloosa, AL	LSU	17–13
November 5, 1994	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	35–17
November 4, 1995	Tuscaloosa, AL	Alabama	10–3
November 9, 1996	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	26–0
November 8, 1997	Tuscaloosa, AL	|LSU	27–0
November 7, 1998	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	22–16
November 6, 1999	Tuscaloosa, AL	Alabama	23–17
November 4, 2000	Baton Rouge, LA	LSU	30–28
November 3, 2001	Tuscaloosa, AL	LSU	30–14
November 16, 2002	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	31–0
November 15, 2003	Tuscaloosa, AL	LSU	27–3
November 13, 2004	Baton Rouge, LA	LSU	26–10
November 12, 2005	Tuscaloosa, AL	LSU	16–13A
November 11, 2006	Baton Rouge, LA	LSU	28–14
November 3, 2007	Tuscaloosa, AL	LSU	41–34
November 8, 2008	Baton Rouge, LA	Alabama	27–21A
November 7, 2009	Tuscaloosa, AL	Alabama	24–15
November 6, 2010	Baton Rouge, LA	LSU	24–21
November 5, 2011	Tuscaloosa, AL	LSU	9–6A

^A The games played in 2005, 2008 and 2011 were decided in overtime.

Series record sources: 2011 Alabama Football Media Guide, 2011 LSU Football Media Guide, and College Football Data Warehouse.