...as LSU goes down at home in triple OT to Arkansas, 50-48. A lot of the punditocracy believed that the Razorbacks would give LSU some trouble. For weeks, LSU has struggled, looking nothing like the team that started the season routing Miss St and VT. A great deal of that could be heaped upon the attrition of their personnel. While players such as Dorsey, Flynn, Hester, Steltz, Favorite and Doucet were in the lineup, they seemed to be limited physically, unable to put up the kind of performances that LSU had built its reputation on. Week after week, LSU was escaping against some relatively mediocre teams (Ole Miss, Alabama). This loss was set up by the struggles that LSU's defense had against Ole Miss last week as they generated no pressure on Rebel QBs and gave up a lot of yards to a bad offense. In the end, they lost to an Arkansas team that was up and down all year and whose uneven performance has reportedly cost their head coach his job. The LSU team that started the season may have been national championship caliber. This LSU team is not and has not been for several weeks.
(On a side note...what a block by Arkansas QB Casey Dick on McFadden's long distance touchdown run in the 3rd QTR. Phenomenal.)
Can WVU take care of business tomorrow and put away the Huskies? And follow that up with what everyone will assume to be a blowout against Wannstedt's Pitt Panthers?
The madness continues...
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