Epic LSU Football Moments: LSU vs. Auburn 1988

6/19/2024

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Da Boot Sports
6/19/2024
By: Terrill J. Weil

It was a humid, muggy night in Baton Rouge on October 8, 1988. A crowd of 79,431 witnessed an epic battle between two top SEC teams.
Auburn came into Tiger Stadium 4-0 and ranked 4th in the nation. LSU was sitting at 2-2, on a two game losing streak.
It was a physical, hard hitting defensive battle all night long. Both defenses were dominating. Auburn managed a field goal on the last drive of the first half to take a 3-0 lead into the locker room at the break.
Auburn managed another field goal with 10:18 left in the contest.
LSU took over on their own 24 yard line with 6:07 left in the game. It was obvious that this could be the Tigers final opportunity to make something happen. LSU had only crossed mid-field once during the entire contest. A battered Tommy Hodson drove the Tigers slowly down the field.
With 1:47 left on the clock and LSU was facing a 4th and ten at the Auburn 11 yard line. Hodson found Eddie Fuller in the back of the end zone for the score and Death Valley erupted. David Browndyke calmly drilled the extra point to put the Bayou Bengals up, 7-6 with 1:41 remaining in the game.
“Time stood still,” Fuller said. “I saw Tommy throw the ball and it looked like a defender might have tipped it. It took forever for the ball to get to me, and it seemed like I almost dropped it because I had waited so long.”
The Tigers drove 74 yards in 15 plays for the winning score, converting on two 4th downs. One Auburn defender was quoted after the game saying, "You could see a different look in LSU's eyes on their final drive."
The crowd's eruption was so massive that it actually registered as an earthquake on the seismograph at LSU's Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex.
The game was still not over. Auburn returned the kickoff to their 35 yard line and needing only a field goal, but the LSU defense stood tall and held the visiting Tigers to lock up victory for LSU.
The game was named, "The Earthquake Game", and has gone down in history as one of the greatest wins in LSU Football History.
"Initially, I didn't believe it," Eddie Fuller said. "I think it took a couple of years for it to sink in. It never dawned on me how big that play was here until years later, when I came back to LSU."

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