Written by Bart Doan at Bloguin
I don’t do grave dancing, and LSU is no different.
Sometimes, you lose a fight on decision. Sometimes, there’s no referee and you get your ass kicked outside the rear door of the bar and left to bleed on the concrete.
The reality is that LSU is not done because the Tigers are in the SEC, and as long as you play for the title in that conference, you’ve probably got a shot, albeit an outside one.
All the analytics and statistical bull-crap aside, the reality is that LSU got it butt kicked. Coming in, the Tigers had as good an offensive line as you were going to get. Star running back Leonard Fournette was averaging around 8 yards per carry. So was his backup.
The Tide flat out beat them up, and hard. Alabama’s scheme was Belichickian. Take away the one thing the opposing team wants to do, even at the point of potential peril, and see if they can get it done.
In the first half, they couldn’t. Brandon Harris was as good as you can imagine after looking like a cute blonde walking through a horror movie scene within the first 20 minutes. His touchdown pass to Travin Doral under duress with six minutes left before halftime made it look like he’d figured out what needed to be figured out.
The thing about Alabama is, though, that the Tide do their best work after they’ve had a chance to see the materials.
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