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BATON ROUGE, La. — The traffic jam Friday on Highland Road near campus was a reminder of the gridlock we've come to expect whenever Alabama plays Louisiana State in football.
It's always going to be a grind.
The Smoothie King at the corner of Highland and State Street heralded Alabama's arrival with the obligatory marquee greeting: "Beat Bama." Across the street, "Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers" sponsors a giant "FEAR the Hat" billboard in honor of LSU Coach Les Miles.
The campus was abuzz in advance of the third meeting in "The Trilogy" that started last November in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The schools had a very unusual split in 2011.
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