What’s been a hot topic on that show recently? With Florida trailing 28-21, Callaway returned a punt 72 yards up the sideline for a touchdown, becoming the first Gators’ freshman to score on a punt return during an SEC game. That passing game is No. 10 nationally, but it’s just as vulnerable as any one-dimensional offense. Everybody keeps looking at …
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“They got us on the flea flicker”, safety Marcus Maye said, “and it was something we should have been prepared for”. “We have to be able to execute whatever is called, no matter what the situation”. “You see the production they got today”. LSU averages just 122 yards per game in the air with Brendan Harris.
On another positive note for Fournette and the Tigers, if he can run like that against the Gators, he can run like that against anyone. Everyone is well aware of the impact Fournette has, but what we don’t know about the LSU Tigers is what happens if Fournette’s impact is limited or not enough? “They had to fake a field goal to beat us”. He was 17-of-32 passing and was Florida’s second-leading rusher with 20 net yards. Now the odds for the game have the Tigers favored to pick up the victory. Florida, meanwhile, still controls its own destiny in the SEC East, and will take next week off before a trip to Jacksonville to face Georgia on October. 31. Brandon Harris threw for 228 yards and two touchdowns in 18 of 28 passes. The ball bounced back 5 yards, where backup safety Nick Washington recovered it. Four plays later, quarterback Treon Harris lobbed a 1-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jake McGee on fourth down for the game’s first score. At least three of his completions were to wide open receivers – coverage busts that are increasingly becoming an issue for a secondary that touts itself as the best in the nation.
However, with a dual-threat quarterback in the backfield, Maye’s assignment was strictly behind the line, either Fournette or Harris. That play set up Fournette’s second touchdown on a 6-yard run.
“That’s just something that comes with playing and now we know”, Jones said.
When the LSU Tigers and Florida Gators meet on the football field, wild plays and close finishes are nearly always a must. They’ve combined to complete 65 of 124 passes for 795 yards. Things have turned sour for the Rebels ever since they climbed to the No. 3 ranking four weeks ago. That doesn’t count the 335 yards Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott put up on the Tigers in the season-opening, 21-19 win in Starkville, Mississippi. And Stanford arguably has an easier backstretch than the six-game slate it’s already played to come. So much so that Florida coach Jim McElwain shamelessly tried to legitimize and justify it as he pulled his back up.
It’s not all bad for the Tigers. It is the best SEC cross-division game going for 16 years now.
Not only was it a total reversal of fortune at the final whistle, but the player who scored the touchdown dislocated his hip diving into the end zone, a Michigan TV station thought the Wolverines actually won and it literally gave a fan a heart attack.
“I guess my hands were shaking”, he said. “I think I saw a light bulb go on”. Malachi Dupre caught both TD passes and finished with 115 receiving yards, while Travin Dural caught five passes for 65 yards.
“We had it. It was an opportunity for us to get seven and seven is a whole lot more than three”, Miles told ESPN after the game.
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For Harris, it’s all about proving the doubters wrong. Boykin completed 84 percent of his throws (27 of 32), the best mark of his career and the fourth-best single-game percentage in TCU history.
