LSU barely controlled the ball in the first half, and thus Fournette didn’t really show up until the third quarter.
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LSU’s Tre’Davious White intercepted a Bart Houston pass and returned the ball 21 yards for a touchdown to make it 13-7.
“When you have a Packers weekend, you have maybe roughly a third of people that live in Green Bay, are already here”. But it didn’t last.
7 Defensive starters return for Wisconsin, which led the nation in scoring defense in 2015 by allowing an average of 13.7 points per game. These two met in 2014, with LSU picking up a 28-24 victory on a neutral field.
The key for UW to slow LSU’s offense is to contain running back Leonard Fournette.
Green Bay – When defensive coordinator Dave Aranda left Wisconsin on New Year’s Day for the same position at LSU, he did so after building, by nearly any statistical measure, one of the top defensive units in the country during three years in Madison.
A pair of field goals by Rafael Gaglianone put the Badgers in front heading into the locker room at halftime.
That set the stage for Gaglianone to put Wisconsin back on top, 16-14, with a 47-yard field goal with less than four minutes remaining in the game.
Wisconsin’s fans were outnumbered 60 percent to 40 percent, but then LSU likely had a significantly larger talent advantage to no avail.
TRAVONTE VALENTINE DEBUT: The sophomore transfer nose guard did not start the game.
Meanwhile, the depth question came to the forefront on the first defensive snap of the game when starting inside linebacker Chris Orr went down with a right leg injury. He finished with three tackles and did appear winded at times. But this time around, the Badgers had their day, as players took part in a postgame Lambeau Leap to cap off the victory. The Tigers are just an appetizer with Michigan State, Michigan and Ohio State still awaiting the Badgers – and that’s just within the first six games of the year. Heisman trophy contender running back Leonard Fournette was kept out of the end zone, rushing for 138 yards on 23 carries. Fournette limped off the field.
The game ended after LSU’s quarterback threw an interception on the team’s final possession, and after the Badgers’ D’Cota Dixon picked the ball off, Boutte sprinted towards him and leveled him after the play was dead.
“Oh, absolutely”, Miles said.
“I trust them”, Fournette said. Once again the defense bent but did not break as pressure forced Harris to throw an errant pass right into the hands of Wisconsin’s D’Cota Dixon to seal the deal for the Badgers. But then things began to go LSU’s way. “I think that just gives credit to our coaching staff”. “I’ll have to see how it goes”. He’s not a malicious guy. The SEC office can rule otherwise, though, upon studying the film. Concussions, though, are sometimes not discovered until later.
52 Consecutive non-conference regular-season games have been won by LSU, the longest streak in the NCAA Division I-A/FBS era (since 1978).
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Weathersby was expected to open the season as a backup, but Maea Teuhema was limited by a sprained ankle in camp and is listed as the backup tackle on both sides. LSU’s season-ending win against Texas A&M may have saved Miles, who had led the Tigers to a national championship victory in 2007, but many fans attribute Les and LSU’s success in the early years to former coach Nick Saban’s recruiting prior to Miles taking over the program in 2005.
