Not ideal, but four times during Les Miles’ tenure as the Tigers coach Florida and LSU have met with both ranked in the top 10. LSU’s drive stalled at the Florida 16-yard line and, pulling out a trick from the 2010 game’s script, Miles opted for a fake field goal on 4th-and-13.
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Holder Brad Kragthorpe, a backup quarterback, took the snap and, while still on his knee, fired a lateral pass to Domingue, who had snuck out of the backfield to the left sideline. Jordan Scarlett 11-yard run around the left side gives Florida a first-and-goal at the LSU 3.
Showcasing a few sort of a passing game proved crucial against the Gators, who boast the best defense LSU has seen yet this season.
Today’s Florida Gators vs LSU Tigers SEC college football game has a start time schedule of 7:00pm eastern time and airs on TV channel ESPN.
Freshman Antonio Callaway almost stumbled as he caught a punt but ended up with a 72-yard touchdown return to tie the score at 28, becoming the first true freshman in school history to score on a punt return during an SEC game. The sophomore finished 17 of 32 for 271 yards and two touchdowns.
Florida overcame the suspension of starting quarterback Will Grier and another big game from Leonard Fournette to hang with LSU into the fourth quarter at Tiger Stadium. They’ve gone 6-0 after starting the season unranked, while the Gators picked up a marquee win over then-No.
Moore injured his knee in last week’s win over South Carolina and Gordon, a 300-pound blocking tight end who had missed the past three games with an injured Achilles’ tendon, re-injured his leg on the first play of the Tigers’ second possession. Everett Golson threw for 372 yards and three touchdowns in the eighth 300-yard game of his career and his second since transferring this summer.
Florida tied the game by outscoring LSU 14-0 in the third quarter. This narrative, Harris said, began with LSU’s sloppy win against Eastern Michigan earlier this month. Fournette’s 180 yards came on 31 carries, and his longest run covered “just” 25 yards; if not for a couple of big plays to Malachi Dupre on coverage busts, it would have been the longest LSU play of the night. Florida is second in the conference with rush defense at 99 yards and second in scoring allowing just 14 points per game.
But LSU’s defensive front dominated, and star running back Leonard Fournette needed only two quarters to register his eight consecutive 100-yard game.
FORMIDABLE FOURNETTE: LSU’s best hope for a Heisman Trophy victor since Billy Cannon in 1959 has averaged 204.5 yards through five games this season and has scored 12 touchdowns.
It wasn’t enough to beat LSU, not with the magic that Miles can conjure in Death Valley seemingly a spell that Florida cannot break.
They forced three straight three-and-outs, cutting the deficit to 28-21 on a 2-yard touchdown run by Kelvin Taylor midway through the third quarter.
Jim McElwain said the offense will basically be the same with Harris at quarterback.
“It’s something that sort of just comes out of nowhere”, Gators tight end Jake McGee said of his reaction to the Grier news. Fournette is the best player on the field for either team and I think he will be the difference.
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Special teams were a disaster once again for the Tigers, essentially handing Florida 14 points.
