Throw out the idea that LSU and Alabama are in the middle of a historical run against each other, and the reaction you get from the two veteran coaches is predictable. Their focus is on the here-and-now. Lee CorsoESPN.com Step back from that perspective, though, and it’s impossible to not at least recognize how large the game between the Tigers and Crimson Tide has become every fall. In fact, in an era when coaches rarely stay in one place for as many years, there are only a handful of comparisons that connect the current LSU-Alabama series to the past. Florida and Florida State had some sizzle when Steve Spurrier and Bobby Bowden were running their respective shows. Same for the Gators and Tennessee when Phil Fulmer had the Volunteers among the elite. The closest thing to where the Tigers and Tide are now, though, goes back a generation with two coaches and programs that Les Miles and Nick Saban both have a link to. Are LSU and Alabama in the middle of a rivalry that compares to Michigan-Ohio State with Les Miles and Nick Saban in charge of the respective programs?Brett Duke, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune “I think with those two guys’ personalities and how good those programs are every year, it’s a lot like Michigan and Ohio State when Bo (Schembechler) and Woody (Hayes) were there,” said ESPN Game Day analyst and former Indiana and Louisville coach Lee Corso. “So many similarities and the biggest one is that the football is so dang good. It’s big-boy football and that’s just like Michigan and Ohio State was back then.” That stretch that Corso referred to is known as ‘The 10-Year War,’ a segment of the storied rivalry between the Wolverines and Buckeyes that has defined the series ever since. During that span, which began when Schembechler, a longtime Ohio State assistant under Hayes, took over in Ann Arbor. Michigan won five games, the Buckeyes four and there was one tie…
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