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BATON ROUGE – Perhaps the best way to describe the first win of the 2024 season for LSU football is uninspiring.
Nicholls, in its first time ever, came into Tiger Stadium Saturday night and stood up to the No. 19 Tigers (1-1), trailing 23-14 at halftime and cut the lead back down to two points, 23-21, for the third time in the game after its second-half opening drive.
LSU did finally seize control from there, scoring the game’s final 21 points en route to the 44-21 victory. LSU coach Brian Kelly told reporters following the game he felt his team was “tired” coming off the short week.
As players Greg Penn III and C.J. Daniels said after the game that it’s good to still have things to work on coming off a win. But there’s a lot for the Tigers to try and correct, which they need to fix fast as they open SEC play at South Carolina (2-0) Saturday (11 a.m. CT, ABC).
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What’s going on with the LSU football run game?
It’d be easy to just point to injuries, as senior John Emery, the team’s leading rusher against USC in the season opener, did go down for the season with an ACL tear during practice last week. But really, Emery didn’t blow the lid off Allegiant Stadium with just 61 yards.
There was no secret that LSU was going to be thin at running back this season before Emery’s injury. Now that offensive coordinator Joe Sloan and LSU has two games under its belt in 2024, it appears there’s not much trust in the tailbacks to get anything established, in all aspects. The most run plays called in any drive against Nicholls was three, happening three times…
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Author : The Daily Advertiser
Publish date : 2024-09-08 16:00:10
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