--- title: Jeopardy!: LSU Student Misses 2 SEC Football Questions description: LSU student Kevin Brown was granted a category that many viewers thought would be a piece of cake for the Tiger senior. canonical: https://time.com/4205965/lsu-student-jeopardy-sec-football-questions/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-03T16:17:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:38.932Z og:title: Watch an LSU Student on Jeopardy! Miss Back-to-Back SEC Football Questions og:description: He dropped the ball og:url: https://time.com/4205965/lsu-student-jeopardy-sec-football-questions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch an LSU Student on Jeopardy! Miss Back-to-Back SEC Football Questions twitter:description: He dropped the ball twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch an LSU Student on _Jeopardy!_ Miss Back-to-Back SEC Football Questions  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 3, 2016 4:17 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 3, 2016 4:17 PM UTC > [](https://twitter.com/snikmoser/status/694637716797943808) When it comes to [college football](http://time.com/4176709/college-football-alabama-crimson-tide-clemson-tigers/), the SEC is arguably the most talked about conference in the nation. In fact, football is so deeply rooted in the culture of SEC schools that it’s difficult to attend one of them without knowing something about the game. It becomes even more difficult when you flub two questions about the sport on national television. **Read More:** [Watch a Rare Three-Way Loss Unfold on _Jeopardy!_](http://time.com/4185006/jeopardy-three-way-loss/) LSU student Kevin Brown appeared in the quarterfinals of the [_Jeopardy!_](http://time.com/3896202/jeopardy-kinky-boots/) College Championship on Tuesday and participated in a [category](http://time.com/3743967/final-jeopardy-one-contestant/) that many viewers thought would be a piece of cake for the Tiger senior: College Football. However, this was not the case. The environmental engineering major botched back-to-back questions that were both directly related to the SEC. And although the first miss probably could have been forgiven, the fact that he didn’t know where Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry played was the final straw. The answer was Alabama, Kevin. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4205965/lsu-student-jeopardy-sec-football-questions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4205965/lsu-student-jeopardy-sec-football-questions/"},"headline":"Watch an LSU Student on Jeopardy! Miss Back-to-Back SEC Football Questions","datePublished":"2016-02-03T16:17:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:38.932Z","description":"He dropped the ball","url":"https://time.com/4205965/lsu-student-jeopardy-sec-football-questions/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","Television","Football","SEC","TV","College football","Jeopardy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4205965/lsu-student-jeopardy-sec-football-questions/","name":"Watch an LSU Student on Jeopardy! Miss Back-to-Back SEC Football Questions"}}]}] ```