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‘What just happened?’ An oral history of LSU and Texas A&M’s history-making 7-OT marathon

The 2018 Texas A&M-LSU seven overtime game will always be remembered as one of the greatest college football games ever played. Now, as the Aggies and Tigers prepare to meet again, The Athletic offers an oral history of the wildest night in Kyle Field history.
By Nicole Auerbach
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The Athletic
November 28, 2019
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By Nicole Auerbach and Brody Miller

After the longest night of their lives, after five hours, seven overtimes, 197 plays and three moments in which they thought they had a win, the LSU football team boarded the flight home one by one. The players’ backs were killing them. They couldn’t feel their legs. Their quarterback had just nearly collapsed in the locker room. All they wanted was to get home.

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