It’s just getting ridiculous.
In a ridiculously big game with ridiculously heated emotions and ridiculously high stakes, the LSU Tigers once again won a game they had no business winning.
But what can you say? They’ve been doing it all year.
LSU jumped out to a quick 17-3 first half against the Crimson Tide, and then overconfidence set in. In every game this season, LSU has played with the notion that because they’re LSU the other team will wither and wilt. Only Florida, Kentucky, and Auburn—heck, even Tulane—gave the Tigers their best punches, leaving LSU scrambling at the end.
And with their heads inflating, LSU started making dumb mistakes.
They broke out needlessly complicated formations which confused themselves more than it confused Alabama. Their reliance on gimmick plays backfired when they were whistled for an illegal snap situation midway through the fourth quarter. Matt Flynn tried throwing the football through pinhole sized windows which ended up getting intercepted.
On defense, their belief that they could squad every route yet still have the talent to recover deep got exploited with a number of double move deep routes.
17-3 LSU morphed into 27-17 Alabama.
But of course, that’s when LSU started getting ridiculous. Matt Flynn put his three first half interceptions, his receivers’ outbreak of “drop-itis,” and all the dumb penalties—14 in all—behind him to throw for 353 yards and 2 scores.
The LSU defense which had been getting burned on blitzes all game long brought even more blitzes, and Alabama’s offense couldn’t pick them up.
No LSU game is complete without some kind of crazy 4th down conversion for a game tying touchdown. And guess what, on 4th and 4 from the Bama 32, Flynn hit Early Doucet with a short crossing route. Doucet shimmied and shook the rest of the distance for a game tying touchdown score.
On the next possession, Chad Jones wailed on John Parker Wilson on a safety blitz forcing a fumble which Curtis Taylor recovered at the Alabama 3.
And it had happened again.
Another extraordinary comeback for LSU; this time shutting-up the Crimson Tide Nick Saban supporters and keeping the Tiger National Championship hopes alive.
Tiger fans got their wish to humiliate Nick Saban with a fourth quarter collapse and see their Tigers’ continue their march towards the BCS Championship Game.
The atmosphere in Baton Rouge matches LSU’s season so far: ridiculous.
—E. Blasco
In a ridiculously big game with ridiculously heated emotions and ridiculously high stakes, the LSU Tigers once again won a game they had no business winning.
But what can you say? They’ve been doing it all year.
LSU jumped out to a quick 17-3 first half against the Crimson Tide, and then overconfidence set in. In every game this season, LSU has played with the notion that because they’re LSU the other team will wither and wilt. Only Florida, Kentucky, and Auburn—heck, even Tulane—gave the Tigers their best punches, leaving LSU scrambling at the end.
And with their heads inflating, LSU started making dumb mistakes.
They broke out needlessly complicated formations which confused themselves more than it confused Alabama. Their reliance on gimmick plays backfired when they were whistled for an illegal snap situation midway through the fourth quarter. Matt Flynn tried throwing the football through pinhole sized windows which ended up getting intercepted.
On defense, their belief that they could squad every route yet still have the talent to recover deep got exploited with a number of double move deep routes.
17-3 LSU morphed into 27-17 Alabama.
But of course, that’s when LSU started getting ridiculous. Matt Flynn put his three first half interceptions, his receivers’ outbreak of “drop-itis,” and all the dumb penalties—14 in all—behind him to throw for 353 yards and 2 scores.
The LSU defense which had been getting burned on blitzes all game long brought even more blitzes, and Alabama’s offense couldn’t pick them up.
No LSU game is complete without some kind of crazy 4th down conversion for a game tying touchdown. And guess what, on 4th and 4 from the Bama 32, Flynn hit Early Doucet with a short crossing route. Doucet shimmied and shook the rest of the distance for a game tying touchdown score.
On the next possession, Chad Jones wailed on John Parker Wilson on a safety blitz forcing a fumble which Curtis Taylor recovered at the Alabama 3.
And it had happened again.
Another extraordinary comeback for LSU; this time shutting-up the Crimson Tide Nick Saban supporters and keeping the Tiger National Championship hopes alive.
Tiger fans got their wish to humiliate Nick Saban with a fourth quarter collapse and see their Tigers’ continue their march towards the BCS Championship Game.
The atmosphere in Baton Rouge matches LSU’s season so far: ridiculous.
—E. Blasco
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