Ed Orgeron gives emotional final post-game interview following upset win

Coach Ed Orgeron’s last home game with the LSU Tigers ended in a late-game thriller. And the best part for the Tigers is that it ended with a win. This year’s LSU team has struggled through many ups and downs, injuries and had to deal with the mid-season news of Orgeron departing once the season’s over. However, tonight none of that mattered as the Tigers successfully sent off their national championship-winning coach with a victory.

After the game, coach Orgeron gave his final on-field postgame interview for the Tigers.

“These guys kept on fighting, man. I can’t say enough about our football team and our coaching staff, so proud of this team,” Ed Orgeron about the win against Texas A&M

“It was about 19 seniors, it wasn’t about me,” he said as the reason to why the team played for him the way they did tonight. “I told them this was never going to be about me. This is about the team; one team, one heartbeat, so proud of them.”

Orgeron wasn’t finished praising his team

“I thought we were gonna make the play the whole time. I thought Jake did a great job of calling the last couple of plays. Give it up to our whole team, this is a big team win,” he said about the Tigers’ go-ahead touchdown.

“Geaux Tigers,” Orgeron said one last time to conclude his final on the field interview.

The win tonight gives LSU six wins on the season and officially makes them bowl eligible. There is no telling what bowl game LSU could possibly get. But that bowl game gives Orgeron one more opportunity to leave the Tigers onto the field of battle; although during his final press conference, he announced he would not coach in the bowl game.

Ed Orgeron on coaching his final game in Death Valley

During his weekly press conference ahead of Saturday’s game, Orgeron was asked what he would remember the most from his time leading the LSU program and what he’ll take away from it when his tenure officially comes to a close soon.

“You know, the day-to-day basis,” Orgeron said. “Excitement to come to work, seeing the players, going out and recruiting, coming down the Tiger Walk, the 2019 season, the getting the big recruit, going out there and competing with all of the players and coaches we’ve been through. It’s been phenomenal.”

After making that impactful statement about his time in Baton Rouge, Orgeron was then asked by another reporter if the good things that have happened with him as LSU’s head coach outweighed the bad.

“Oh yeah – no question,” Orgeron said. “I ain’t had a bad day yet. I’m not going to have a bad day. I think I’m going to make it.”