LSU Makes South Carolina Feel At Home After Flood Forces Relocation

With yesterday's LSU-South Carolina football game moved to Baton Rouge amid flooding in the Columbia area, Tiger Stadium "may have felt like home" to South Carolina fans attending the game. LSU's videoboards "sported South Carolina’s state flag," while fans "showed their support for the people of South Carolina by donating to American Red Cross members stationed at every entrance." The game was played in front of a crowd of 42,058, "an uncommon sight for players used to nearly 100,000" at Tiger Stadium. LSU "closed off the entire east-side upper deck, and the south end zone was virtually empty save a few scattered fans" (Baton Rouge ADVOCATE, 10/11).

Meanwhile, the NCAA last night announced that LSU RB Leonard Fournette "will be allowed" to auction his jersey with proceeds going to the flood victims. There "had been some question over whether NCAA amateurism rules forbid Fournette from auctioning the No. 7 jersey in which he made history by becoming the fastest to 1,000 yards in a season for LSU" (ESPN.com, 10/10).

Leonard Fournette can auction his jersey for SC flood victims.

— NCAA (@NCAA) October 11, 2015