1976 LSU Tigers football team

1976 LSU Tigers football
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
Record7–3–1 (3–3 SEC)
Head coach
Captains
  • Butch Knight
  • Roy Stuart
Home stadiumTiger Stadium
1976 Southeastern Conference football standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 10 Georgia $ 5 1 0 10 2 0
No. 11 Alabama 5 2 0 9 3 0
No. 20 Mississippi State 4 2 0 9 2 0
Florida 4 2 0 8 4 0
No. 18 Kentucky $ 4 2 0 8 4 0
LSU 3 3 0 6 4 1
Auburn 3 3 0 4 7 0
Ole Miss 3 4 0 5 6 0
Tennessee 2 4 0 6 5 0
Vanderbilt 0 6 0 2 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • Mississippi State later forfeited all 1976 wins due to NCAA violations. Kentucky retroactively announced in 1978 as SEC co-champion.
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1976 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University (LSU) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1976 NCAA Division I football season. Led by 15th-year head coach Charles McClendon, the Tigers compiled an overall record of 7–3–1, with a mark of 3–3 in conference play, and finished tied for sixth in the SEC.