An Interesting Blurb On ESPN

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    "The important takeaway here, however, is that LSU has an offense. Like, an honest-to-goodness, modern, effective, dangerous offense. And boy did Joe Burrow & Co. show it off on Saturday.

    LSU's 45-38 win in Austin was a statement. The Tigers won a few games last year when no one was expecting it, but it always felt more like smoke and mirrors and defense. These guys, though, this offense -- Burrow completed 31 of 39 passes for 471 yards, a whopping 12 yards per pass, with four touchdowns. That hasn't happened since ... ever. Guess Texas is not DBU after all.

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    This was no one-off performance, either. Burrow's past six games: 72% completions, 1,915 yards, 19 touchdowns and two interceptions. There are fierce powers at work in the world, McConaughey said in "Mud." Burrow is one of them.

    The last time LSU beat Alabama was a 9-6 slugfest in 2011 that was about as fun to watch as "Failure to Launch." In that game, the Tigers completed just nine passes for 91 yards. Since then, LSU is 0-8 vs. the Tide, getting shut out three times, never cracking 17 points and accounting for a grand total of four touchdown passes. Four. That's what Burrow had on Saturday against Texas.

    Alabama has cruised to a 2-0 start against Duke and New Mexico State, which tells us a big fat nothing about the Tide. But LSU, well this was a performance that matters, and the Tigers look like they might just be good enough to shake up the power structure in the SEC West. To do this on the road, to do this despite Texas' ability to keep getting up off the mat, to do this with offense -- this feels like a genuine step forward for LSU, a true deviation from an offense that looked stuck in the past for far too long. Ed Orgeron was no one's choice to truly change LSU's approach, to rewrite this script that we'd seen play out for the Tigers for the better part of a decade. And yet, here we are."

    I saw a TX sign near the end of the game reading "GEAUX HEAUXM."
    Well, LSU did. With a win over a tough team on the road.

    It's a great feeling to watch our Tigers build things with ALL the tools of the trade.
     
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