You really think people in other states, watching LSU games, think: "Wow, Lousiana really knows how to play football!" Come on, man. If anything, they might think something along the lines of "Hey, LSU's got a pretty good team this year" right before they go grab a beer and get on with their lives. This romantic notion of LSU representing anything other than itself, one particular school in Baton Rouge, is ridiculous, and you'd realize just how ridiculous it is if you took off the homer glasses for just one second.
It's a school. It has a football team. That's all.