the reigning national champions, the lsu tigers kick you off their season at home against mississippi state. there will be limited seating and no tailgating. the head coach brought home the title last season. he's also a local hero in baton rouge. john wertheim reports for "60 minutes." >> you might call 2019 the year of yes for louisiana state. they won the national championship. their quarterback joe burrow won the heisman trophy. that's jamar chase. in april, nfl teams drafted 124 players from lsu, tying a modern record for one school fwoumplt all the talent coursing through baton rouge -- ♪ ♪ there is a house in new orleans ♪ >>> the sun rises and sits with coach onchts he didn't get much of a victory lap unless you count 5:00 a.m. rides to work radio blaring. covid hits and he was coming to work alone. we were invited inside lsu football for a few days in august when louisiana had one of the highest covid rates in the country. players were back in the gym but they weren't training in a bubble. everyone here goes home at night. the team tracks players' temperatures, administers re

tigers here at lsu is the defending champ.ier this month that the majority of his players have already had coronavirus although he never gave an exact number. the coach said he's excited to get this season started finally. >> everybody lives for saturday afternoon, to see the at the he gears play again. have some parties. go back to doing the things we can. obviously, following covid-19 protocols. but get back to a sense of normalcy will mean a lot for the state of louisiana and all the other great lsu fans we have out there and especially for our football team. >> reporter: all right. the nba, the celtics living to fight another day. things weren't looking very good for them early on against the heat but boston going on a 23 run in the third quarter. celtics won to force a game six tomorrow night. lakers, their spot in the finals tonight in game five against the nuggets on tnt. in baseball the miami marlins are heading to the post-season completing one of the most remarkable comebacks in baseball history. 18 marlins tested po

a little more than 21,000 fans were in the stands to watch the defending champion lsu tigers lose in er. mississippi state quarterback costello breaking an s.e.c. record, throwing for more than 600 yards. mike leach wins a first game with the bulldogs upsetting lsu 44-34. all the s.e.c. teams kicking off seasons yesterday. all of the games had fans in the stands at a reduced capacity. the most was at texas a&m where they had just over 24,000. now, the biggest upset of the day belonged to kansas state. the wildcats continue to be short-handed due to covid-19. but that didn't stop them yesterday. they scored 24 unanswered to beat third ranked oklahoma 38-35. they had a pretty cool celebration in the locker room after the game. >>> hockey, dallas stars surviving to fight another day in the stanley cup finals. they won a thriller last night over the lightning. 3-2 in double overtime. game 6 of that series is going to be tomorrow night. in the meantime, week 3 of the nfl season continuing today. more and more teams will be allowing fans into the stands here in new orleans. they're going to

. >> andy scholes is live from baton rouge, home of the defending champion, lsu tigers, good to see you and about, andy, i bet it feels good. >> it certainly feels good to be at big time sporting events, but they definitely have a different look and feel to it. come november we're going to have every single football conference playing college football and there's a lot of excited fans here today in baton rouge as the sec is set to kick off their season and all of the games in the sec today will have fans in the stands. here at tiger stadium they're expecting around 25,000 for their opener against mississippi state. over in college station texas a&m also going to have around 25,000 fans. take a look at this map. here are all of the sec games taking place today, all of the stadiums will be at a reduced capacity. the tigers here in baton rouge, they're the defending champs and this has been a different offseason for the team. the coach revealing the majority of his players have already had coronavirus and he says it's been a challenge to get today. >> my football team has been working hard

cnn's andy scholes is in baton rouge, the home of the lsu tigers.cited. >> excited, fredricka. kickoff saturday is usually a huge heart here in baton rouge, but it is much different this year. there's no tailgating. so it's actually, you know, rather quiet out here. they will be allowing 25,000 fans into tiger stadium later today for the opener against mississippi state. i walked around campus. i asked some of those fans, how do they feel about coming to a big-time sporting event in the middle of a pandemic? >> definitely very different right now. usually this place is packed at this time. i guess in one way it's kind of nice. you don't have all the crowds to deal with. this will be his first game. >> it feels sad, but we're going to make the best of it. the 25,000 of us, we're going to scream really loudly and make it feel like it's 102,000 in the building. >> i've been teaching school since early august, and i'm getting used to wearing a mask all the time. it's hard outside to wear it because it gets a little hot but thank goodness we have nice we

i'm a proud texas longhorn, you're an lsu tiger. i think that's an advantage. i think it's an advantage. it's what they used to say, put the jam on the lower shelf where little folks can reach it, right? we have to meet, as senator mikulski used to say, meet people where they live. so when we talk about abstraction, section 8 housing, okay, that doesn't -- as george w. bush would say, that doesn't resonate with anybody. but when corey bush says i was homeless, and i've been able to live the american dream and now get elected, likely, to congress, that personalizes it. it humanizes it. and i think it's absolutely essential. we talk about programs too much and people too little. and i do think, actually, this is a biden strength. he's very good about remembering it's about people. and this is a people business we're in. and it's far better to tell one story about one person than it is to give a whole statistic about a government program. >> well, give us an example. let's talk about climate change. why is that important? you also address that in your book. >> i d

you know, lsu tigers were playing all along. >> trace: they were. interesting.now president trump came out and supports the big ten decision to play eight games. notable that the big ten schools in wisconsin, minnesota, michigan, all battleground states, so interesting political tone on that decision as well. >> sandra: you're watching football, trace. >> trace: meantime sally downgraded to a category one storm moving through southeast alabama and moving inland with damaging winds and life-threatening flooding around the coast. live team coverage from janice dean who will bring us the latest forecast and first to charles watson live on the banks of the mobile river in alabama. what are conditions like where you are right now? >> incredibly dangerous. the wind particularly is very strong. wind gusts have been coming through here and knocking things over. take a look at the mobile river. you can see the water out there just rough surf, man. this is normally you would see these big cargo ships out here going through the shipping channel. not today. dangerous. we've

field yesterday we heard from the national champion coach, the coach from the national championship lsu tigers, saying, basically, hey, everybody on my team has coronavirus now, sure, it's not everybody on his team, but this is spreading like wildfire through a lot of college campuses and through this football team it's going to be interesting to see what the truth ends up being about lsu. but people see that, and they see the president getting angry in his answer on the coronavirus is, let's force young kids to go out and play college football. and again, it's just stupid! it's just -- >> it's deadly. >> if you're in a oshkosh and you're seeing the president saying this and you're like, i like the badgers, i like football, but do we really want to have one superspreader event after another? >> yeah, it's dangerously irresponsible, obviously, the way he talks about it, and particularly last night the herd immunity, which he hung his hat on now, all of a sudden, as the new strategy, i guess, out of the white house. we're talking in shorthand, we should be clear about what that means. it means e

to this, 623-yards setting a new record under his new stellar coach mike leech, 44-34 over the lsu tigerskansas state takes home a victory against third ranked oklahoma, 38-35. one near and dear to my heart, almost gave me heart attack. over time thriller in texas, the longhorns, huge comeback beating texas tech 65-56. those are the headlines. pete: will, what is with your texas teams. first the dallas cowboys win this fluke, ridiculous win on side on sunday and what is that score, 63 to something? will: 63-56. they do the win probability chart, the win probability chart for the cowboys and longhorns was .1%. they won a game they were supposed to lose 99.9% of the time. both of them. just the way we roll in texas,. pete: you my friend, are a lucky man. how about a quarterback 623 yards. i have never seen. will: mike leech is heck of a coach. president trump making his final ruling nominating bart barrett to the supreme court. what can we expect if the potential justice takes the bench? we ask her former law clerk next. ♪ who is usaa made for? it's made for him a veteran who honorably serv