BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Dylan Carpenter’s teammates inside the LSU locker room call him “Captain America,” but back home in Ascension Parish, he’s simply the hometown kid living out a lifelong purple and gold dream.
Now in his fourth year with the Tigers, the edge rusher and St. Amant High School standout has emerged as a relentless force on the defensive front.
Carpenter and the Tigers are in the spotlight Saturday night for one of college football’s most anticipated matchups: LSU’s showdown in Oxford against Ole Miss. The high-stakes SEC clash marks LSU head coach Lane Kiffin’s first return to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium since leaving the Rebels to take over in Baton Rouge…