Congratulations on your nephew going to LSU!!! I'd like to suggest a couple things.... First, the gold can be see on this LSU fabric
http://www.stitch-n-frame.net/cgi-bi...ollegeFootball . This is one place that has the twill type 60" wide LSU fabric that is nice to work with.
Then as to the pattern, you can google LSU quilts and see a few suggestions, there is at least 1 LSU quilt here too. The LSU gold is really more of a yellow on some things. You may also want to include some "tiger stripe" fabric into the quilt for an accent, or a picture of a Bengal Tiger.
Have fun with this and I'm sure that he will love it! If you want to be silly with it you could always quilt 'tiger bait' into the quilt somewhere.....