Editor's note: We're counting down to LSU's Sept. 3 season opener against Florida State with a look back at the greatest Tiger players at each number from The Advocate book "LSU By The Numbers." ...

BATON ROUGE ― Matt Mauck led LSU football to a national championship in 2003, the first title for the storied program in nearly 50 years at the time. A tradition was born. Since that season, LSU has ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Matt Mauck's path to athletic fame could have been on the basketball hardwood back home in his native Indiana. Or it could have led him to the ivy-covered bricks at Wrigley Field as a ...

For the first time in more than two decades, LSU has handed its most prestigious jersey to a quarterback. Garrett Nussmeier, the Tigers’ fifth-year senior and projected Heisman contender, was awarded ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Matt Mauck was the quarterback for LSU football’s 2003 national championship and likewise where the Tigers proud history of the No. 18 jersey began. Just recently that No. 18 ...

LSU football awarded No. 18 for the 2025 season. The number will be worn by quarterback Garrett Nussmeier. LSU awards the No. 18 jersey each year to a player who represents what it means to be a Tiger ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WGNO) — LSU announced Sunday morning its senior quarterback was getting a new number. The program awarded Garrett Nussmeier with the No. 18 Jersey. The player who has earned the ...

LSU's Garrett Nussmeier is projected to be among the top quarterbacks in college football this season, and the Tigers handed him a prestigious honor just before Week 1. The fifth-year senior was ...

Matt Mauck had never been to Louisiana, much less a game in Tiger Stadium. But while he was playing minor league baseball, toiling away for a Class A team in Michigan called the Lansing Lugnuts, Mauck ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The quarterback of the 2003 LSU national champions stops by to talk Tigers! Matt Mauck shares his thoughts on No. 8 LSU’s 5-1 start, including their most recent 29-26 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Believe it or not, it will soon be 20 years since LSU football won the 2003 national championship. The quarterback of that team was Matt Mauck, who threw 28 touchdowns that ...