The LSU defensive back jumps inside and then gets blasted by the fullback that pulls around, springing Henry for a walk-in touchdown to put Alabama up 17. He gained exactly one yard all night before contact.
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Tiger fans cannot be blamed for crying in their beer after Saturday’s loss to Alabama. That Clemson quarterback DeShaun Watson, the pivotal player on the No. 1 team, has remained off this list all year is only because other players might have snared the imagination a tad more. The Crimson Tide are coming off a 30-16 win over LSU last week for its biggest win of the season. Saturday night’s performance against LSU was the Saban-Kiffin love child’s masterpiece.
Despite initial trepidation from the NCAA, LSU sophomore running back Leonard Fournette’s jersey from the SC game was auctioned off for over $100,000 Monday with all proceeds benefiting flood relief in the state. Florida holds a 4-3 edge. The Tigers offensive line was just over-matched and dominated by Alabama’s front seven.
With the Tide victory, the top three in the SEC has pretty much cemented itself for now, as it would be hard to argue with Alabama, LSU, and Florida being at the top of the rankings in that respective order. “That’s when the nose guard flatheads the center, and they knock their guy back and the linebacker fills. That’s their bread and butter”.
Long-time LSU radio announcer Jim Hawthorne will sit out the Arkansas game after undergoing an undisclosed medical procedure two weeks ago. I said it once and I will say it again, once he gets started, good luck trying to stop him.
The Tigers were a final four team for only a matter of days. He was 6 of 19 for 128 yards with a touchdown and his first interception of the season. The offense is averaging 33.1 points and 423.2 yards per contest. The Crimson Tide also lost 7-0 to Notre Dame in Birmingham on November 15, but pummeled Baylor 30-2 in the Cotton Bowl to end up with a 10-2 record. On the second drive for a 39-yard field goal by Trent Domingue, he completed a 13-yard pass to wide receiver Malachi Dupre. “He just nodded. He didn’t have much to say, but I know he’ll do a great job the rest of the season”. They were kind of messing with the substitutions, and we were getting in late and not getting lined up. “And they hit a couple big plays on us”.
But as far as straight up, man-to-man and line-to-line big boy football, LSU failed miserably. Well, I think they quieted a good bit of people with how they played. That was flat-out shocking as they fell for the first time this season in the 39-38 loss. (McCaffrey stands 10th in rushing.) Henry’s 6-foot-3, 242-pound frame, moving through Southeastern Conference nights as a few sort of testament to modernity, would make a swell Heisman model in this era. Alabama needed to get refocused immediately. But he’s just a sophomore, one who has had the luxury of a future college football legend carrying the team.
“I watch not a snap of football on a Saturday when I’m preparing to play”, he said.
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It has been a season-long policy to abstain from picking SEC games against the spread that feature FCS opponents, so we will not predict Texas A&M’s game with Western Carolina. As teams begin to jostle and fight for conference supremacy, what will this week hold? “We recognize we don’t have it. We recognize we’re playing for it. It’s certainly an important rival and one that befits a trophy of the magnitude of the Boot”. Our defense was on the field for the whole second half virtually.
