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On January 19, 2017, LSU announced a timeline concerning searching for a tiger to become Mike VII, hoping to have him join an incoming freshman class in August 2017. Additionally, they announced the would-be Mike VII would no longer visit the stadium during game days. The school also attempted to have Mike's habitat accredited as a tiger sanctuary.
LSU's oldest rival is Tulane; the first LSU-Tulane football game was played in 1893 and for the first 50 or so years of Tiger football, no team was more hated by LSU fans than the Green Wave. The series, in which they battle for the Tiger Rag , was played continuously from 1919 to 1994. [ 155 ]
The 2019 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season.The Tigers played their home games at Tiger Stadium (nicknamed Death Valley) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and competed in the West Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) where they were led by their third-year head coach Ed Orgeron.
Mike the Tiger is LSU's official mascot. LSU Athletics is represented by its mascot, a live Bengal tiger named "Mike the Tiger". LSU is only one of two institutions of higher education in the United States to have a live tiger as their mascot; the other is the University of Memphis. The tiger was named after Mike Chambers, LSU's athletic ...
LSU's men's and women's sports teams are called the Fighting Tigers, Tigers or Lady Tigers. During its first three sports seasons, LSU played without a nickname. [ 2 ] For the inaugural LSU–Tulane football game in 1893, the New Orleans newspapers referred to the LSU football team as the Baton Rouge "boys", but that was not an official ...
LSU ended the practice of having a live tiger at games following the death of Mike VI, the last mascot to grace the sideline, in 2016. (Photo by Doug Benc/Getty Images) (Doug Benc via Getty Images)
SEC logo in LSU's colors. The Louisiana State University official team nickname is the "Fighting Tigers", "Tigers" or "Lady Tigers". [3]At one time, the "Lady Tigers" nickname was used only in sports that have teams for both men and women—specifically basketball, cross country, golf, swimming and diving, tennis, and track and field (indoor and outdoor); however, since 2017, only women's ...
No. 15 LSU controversially unveiled a live caged tiger in its stadium for the first time in almost a decade before they were routed 42-13 by No. 11 Alabama in their SEC showdown.