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50 free LSU Football trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Few college football programs mix winning and pageantry the way LSU does. The Tigers have claimed national championships in the 1950s, the 2000s and the 2010s, produced Heisman Trophy winners decades apart, and turned Saturdays in Baton Rouge into one of the loudest, most colorful scenes in American sport. This quiz covers the whole story: the earliest days of the program, the coaches who built it, the title seasons, the wildest finishes against SEC rivals, and the stars who went on to the NFL. It also digs into the traditions that make game day in Louisiana unlike anywhere else, from the live tiger mascot to the cheers, the uniforms and the trophies. The questions start with facts most fans will know and get tougher as they go, so they work for a tailgate, a watch party, a classroom or a pub quiz. Every answer comes with a short explanation, and the full set can be played on screen or printed.
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Q 01Which nickname do LSU fans give Tiger Stadium, known as one of college football's loudest venues?
Death Valley
Death Valley holds more than 100,000 fans, and an ESPN sideline reporter once called it the loudest stadium he had ever been in.
Q 02By legend, LSU's first team wore purple and gold because they were the colors of which celebration?
Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras colors are purple, green and gold, and the story goes that the shop's green had sold out before the 1893 team bought its ribbons.
Q 03On Christmas Day 1907, LSU beat a local university 56–0 in which city outside the United States?
Havana
Havana hosted the game, the first Bacardi Bowl, against the University of Havana. It is often called the first American college game on foreign soil, though Michigan had played in Toronto in 1880.
Q 04What was built into LSU's Tiger Stadium in the 1930s as a way to fund thousands of extra seats?
Dormitories
Dormitories had state money while the seating did not, so rooms went under the stands and the stadium grew by 10,000 seats. Students lived beneath the bleachers for decades.
Q 05How did LSU raise the $750 to buy its first live tiger mascot, Mike I, from a zoo in 1936?
25 cents from each student
Collecting 25 cents from each student paid for the cub, who arrived from the Little Rock Zoo under the name Sheik. He was renamed after athletic trainer Mike Chambers.
Q 06Which Ohio State transfer threw 60 touchdown passes for LSU in 2019 and won the Heisman Trophy?
Joe Burrow
Joe Burrow used his Heisman speech to talk about hunger in his Ohio hometown, and about $450,000 in donations reached the county food bank soon after.
Q 07Which nickname did LSU's Tyrann Mathieu earn for fearless play and a dyed blond patch of hair?
Honey Badger
Honey Badger stuck because Mathieu took on far bigger opponents, and his 11 forced fumbles at LSU set a Southeastern Conference career record.
Q 08Which country star's recording of 'Callin' Baton Rouge' is played before every LSU home game?
Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks released his version in 1994, but the Oak Ridge Boys had recorded the song back in 1978.
Q 09Unlike most college teams, LSU traditionally wears which jersey color for home games?
White
White at home took hold with the 1958 national champions. An NCAA rule forced purple from 1983 to 1994, and fans called it bad luck until a new coach lobbied to change it.
Q 10LSU's winning 1988 touchdown against which rival drew a roar that shook a campus seismograph?
Auburn
Auburn arrived in the national top five and led 6–0 until a late touchdown pass won it 7–6, and the contest became known as the Earthquake Game.
Q 11Which coach won LSU's 2003 national title, then left for the NFL's Miami Dolphins a year later?
Nick Saban
Nick Saban lasted two seasons in the NFL before returning to the SEC, where he won six more national titles with one of LSU's division rivals.
Q 12Which LSU coach, nicknamed the Mad Hatter for his play-calling, won the 2007 national title?
Les Miles
Les Miles was also called the Hat for his signature cap, and his 2007 team was the first to win a BCS title after losing twice.
Q 13Which coach from Larose, Louisiana, led LSU to a perfect 15–0 season and the national title in 2019?
Ed Orgeron
Ed Orgeron started the 2016 season as LSU's defensive line coach, stepped in as interim head coach that September and was given the job for good later that year.
Q 21Which 2019 Biletnikoff winner from LSU later rejoined his college quarterback in Cincinnati?
Ja'Marr Chase
Ja'Marr Chase led the FBS with 1,780 receiving yards and 20 touchdown catches that year, then opted out of the 2020 season to prepare for the NFL.
Q 22Which LSU receiver co-led the nation with 111 catches in 2019 before joining the Minnesota Vikings?
Justin Jefferson
Justin Jefferson scored four touchdowns in the first half of that season's playoff semifinal, and the Vikings took him with the 22nd pick of the draft.
Q 23Which LSU receiver won the 2013 Hornung Award before a famous one-handed catch for the Giants?
Odell Beckham Jr.
Q 14Which head coach used a three-platoon system to win LSU's first recognized national title in 1958?
Paul Dietzel
Paul Dietzel swapped whole units in and out to keep his players fresh, went 11–0, then left LSU for Army three years later.
Q 15Which comic-strip name did LSU's 1958 head coach give his popular second-string defensive unit?
Chinese Bandits
Chinese Bandits came from the strip Terry and the Pirates, and the backups became so popular that Life magazine photographed them in 1959.
Q 16Which coach left Notre Dame after twelve seasons to take over LSU football for the 2022 season?
Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly signed a ten-year deal worth $95 million, went 34–14 with the Tigers and was fired midway through the 2025 season.
Q 17Which coach left SEC rival Ole Miss in late 2025 to become the 34th head coach of LSU football?
Lane Kiffin
Lane Kiffin made the move while his Ole Miss team was preparing for the College Football Playoff. Years earlier he had been the youngest head coach in modern NFL history.
Q 18Which Louisiana politician co-wrote LSU fight songs and drove a Tigers head coach to quit in 1934?
Huey Long
Huey Long was turned away from the locker room when he tried to give the team a halftime speech, and the coach resigned after the argument that followed.
Q 19Which LSU halfback won the 1959 Heisman Trophy after an 89-yard Halloween punt return beat Ole Miss?
Billy Cannon
Billy Cannon shook off seven tacklers on the way to the end zone, and LSU retired his number 20 the following year. He later worked as a dentist.
Q 20Which former Arizona State quarterback won the 2023 Heisman Trophy in his final season at LSU?
Jayden Daniels
Jayden Daniels led the FBS in total yards that year, then went second overall in the NFL draft to Washington and was named Offensive Rookie of the Year.
Odell Beckham Jr. was drafted 12th overall in 2014, and his falling one-handed touchdown grab against Dallas came in his rookie season.
Q 24Which LSU running back rushed for 1,953 yards in 2015 before the Jacksonville Jaguars drafted him?
Leonard Fournette
Leonard Fournette also ran for 22 touchdowns that season, both school records at the time, and he later won a Super Bowl with Tampa Bay.
Q 25Which LSU cornerback won the 2010 Bednarik and Thorpe awards before joining the Arizona Cardinals?
Patrick Peterson
Patrick Peterson went fifth overall in 2011 and led the NFL in punt return yards as a rookie.
Q 26Which LSU quarterback did the Oakland Raiders choose first overall in the 2007 NFL draft?
JaMarcus Russell
JaMarcus Russell earned the pick with a 41–14 Sugar Bowl rout of Notre Dame, in which he was named the most valuable player.
Q 27Which former LSU fullback was the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1962 with the Green Bay Packers?
Jim Taylor
Jim Taylor took the 1962 rushing title ahead of Cleveland's Jim Brown, and he entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1976.
Q 28Which Honduras-born LSU back became a Philadelphia Eagles great and Pro Football Hall of Famer?
Steve Van Buren
Steve Van Buren led the NCAA in scoring in 1943, after wartime call-ups left LSU short of players and he was moved to running back.
Q 29Which future New York Giants star quarterbacked LSU in the frozen 0–0 'Ice Bowl' of January 1947?
Y. A. Tittle
Y. A. Tittle and LSU outgained their opponents by 271 yards to 54 but could not score, while fans lit fires in the stands to keep warm.
Q 30Which LSU defensive tackle swept the Outland, Lombardi, Nagurski and Lott awards in 2007?
Glenn Dorsey
Glenn Dorsey's haul included both major trophies for linemen, and the Kansas City Chiefs drafted the Gonzales, Louisiana, native fifth overall in 2008.