Who you got tomorrow? Out with buddy who grew up in NOLA & is convinced the Tigers win tomorrow. Should be a great game. I'm looking forward to it. I saw the spread was Bama -6.5. I'd take LSU & the points. How effective will Tua be coming off his injury? Between him & Burrow, those are probably the top 2 picks come next May.
So take the points...and don't be surprised if LSU wins
Going to have to really play well on offense to win this one, methinks.
Definitely won't be surprised if LSU wins. Burrow is the real deal.
On the other hand, it’s in Tuscaloosa and Saban is still Saban. Very close game, which I think LSU wins in a squeaker, 31-28.
They will certainly campaign for it.
Knowing that result will be decided in a conference room rather than on a playing field takes away a good bit of the drama for me.
Stingley, just a freshman, currently is the nation’s second-highest-graded cornerback overall and he possesses the nation’s top coverage grade in the process. He has been targeted 49 times as the primary coverage defender and has allowed just 20 receptions while making four interceptions and has 10 more pass breakups to boot. Despite seeing the likes of Collin Johnson, Elijah Moore and Seth Williams, to name a few, he’s holding quarterbacks to just a 41.6 passer rating in his coverage. He is every bit a lockdown corner.
40 QB rating, not completion pct.
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Very, very excited for this one.
And then you do. Game.
They have the best talent in America. The way they’ve played this year is anything but resilient actually.
But Saban has had this happen a bunch of times since the playoffs - they lose a huge regular season game, don’t go to the sec title game, and get in anyway because of their program. And to be fair they show well that playoff because they are good.
But just once it be great to see a team that doesn’t make its conference title game not get invited to the final 4... people knock ND because it doesn’t play a title game but it was 12-0 both those years
Tua losing the ball untouched on the first drive. Too many men on the field when Diggs picked off Burrow. The inexplicable inability to handle a perfect snap on the first punt attempt. Bulovas missing an XP - but what else is new... even Jerry Jeudy dropped two balls he hasn't missed all year. He redeemed himself on the 2nd one, but the first one was probably a TD. Went right through his hands.
No excuses with Tua being on one leg... they just didn't come out ready to go and by the time they got going, it was too late.
That they fought back and got within a score probably keeps slim playoff hopes alive; but we're going to need a bit of help now and beating Auburn isn't a given, either.
Just really frustrating defensive performance. Seeing Bama have so much trouble getting stops on 3rd downs was maddening and it's just not the same Alabama defense that's usually there.
McKinney was the best player on the field for the defense by far. The linebackers just aren't up to snuff... losing Dylan Moses fucking sucked.
It felt like this team was vulnerable all year - so, I kind of expected what happened to happen. I wasn't surprised. What can you do... we've owned LSU for years; maybe it'll be a 2011 redux :)
Also would be remiss not to mention Najee Harris. He almost won the game by himself. Sucks that performance got wasted. He left it all out there.
Can't win em all. Just really an uncharacteristically sloppy and uneven performance from a Saban team - especially having 2 weeks to prepare.
LSU will slightly less mistakes and just enough offense to stay ahead...
Still threw for over 400 yards, threw some beautiful deep balls and toughed it out against a really good opponent when he was nowhere near 100%. He made his mistakes too... the fumble on the first drive was killer. Went right down the field there and could have punched LSU in the mouth immediately with a score... and then, that. Bad INT too.
Danielson and Nessler pointed it out enough to make it obvious, but the coverage between the hashes was just awful. Bad tackling, too. Almost every time their RB got hit, he'd get 5 more yards past initial contact. Burrow also snuck out of a few tackles. Frustrating, but what can you do.
Felt like I was watching NYG defense, sadly.