BATON ROUGE, La. -- Logan Stokes know how it looks. But the LSU tight end insists that he didn't intentionally pull down Alabama linebacker Reggie Ragland's uniform pants after a play last Saturday.

"I'm actually a great prankster, so if I was going to pants him, it would have been a lot better job than that," Stokes said after Monday's practice. "Everybody saw the top half of his butt for two seconds and you would have thought I just pulled the biggest prank ever out there. It was not the case, it was not intentional and my apologies to him and all the Alabama fans that have just contacted me and just let me know how they feel."

Stokes said he frequently pulls players off the pile by the back of their pants. In this case, however, Ragland was not wearing a belt and that led to a wardrobe malfunction when Stokes gave his pants a strong tug after an Anthony Jennings run in the third quarter.

"If you watch the Florida game or the Kentucky game, there was a pile and I grabbed people the exact same way, but they were actually wearing a belt, so when I pulled them off, I just yanked them back," Stokes said. "He wasn't wearing a belt, so when I yanked, his pants came down. It wasn't intentional."

The LSU senior, a native Alabamian, said he initially tried to shrug off the response to the play as something funny that happened in the course of a game. But Stokes said the public reaction became a nuisance when it wouldn't die after a day or two -- with even Ragland continuing to have fun with the situation.

Reggie Ragland on his now infamous pantsing by LSU: "I believe people have seen my butt more than I have."

— Alex Scarborough (@AlexS_ESPN) November 10, 2014

Asked if he had heard from many Alabama fans, Stokes responded, "Oh my, have I. I guess I should take my own life after that. Ooh. I get back to the locker room and I can't even open up my cell phone because people are just letting me know exactly what they think.

"Some woman messaged me and told me she's been an Alabama fan for 30 years and she'd never seen anything like that and she thinks I should be suspended for the remainder of the year" Stokes continued. "So if y'all want to take that to the NCAA, I guess I should be suspended and never play again."

That won't happen, but Stokes will probably have to suck it up for a few more days until Saturday's slate of games brings new oddities to distract fans. For now, his revealing Ragland's rear end to the world is the trendy source of viral amusement -- for everyone but Stokes.

"I'm not like real happy about it," he said. "I tried to play it off, but it seems like I take three steps forward and five steps backward."