I heard someone earlier this week questioning this "fact." Had to settle it in my own mind at least. According to the stat pack on lsusports.net, the second-to-last drive of the game ended with a fumble at the 50. So while we reached the 50, officially, we didn't cross it.
Arkansas in 2014 when I saw this thread title sprung to mind. That was HANDS DOWN the worst beating we have taken since 2011's catastrophic NC game against Bama. So I went to hunt down the stats of that game to see if it supported my natural gut reaction. http://www.secsports.com/boxscore/football/400548336 Jennings was 12/22 for 87 passing yards. Our team had 31 carries for 63 yards an average of 2 yards a rush. That was it. We lost 17-0. Did not even surpass 150 yards of offense. We lost badly to State, but we scored essentially 3 touchdowns on them, 1 which should have been negated and one that shouldn't as well as one that stood. It was a snowball game with ejections and mass injuries and such. I won't argue over whether it was bad. It was horrid. As bad a start under O as can be imagined. Still, that Arkansas game followed losing in OVERTIME to the #1 ranked Crimson Tide 20-13 on a pick play. We had Chavis and Cameron as coordinators both highly respected and a NC winning head coach. We were 10-3 the previous year with narrow losses on the road to Ole Miss and UGA and the third to Bama. Earlier that season we got drilled 41-7 by Auburn, which was a disaster, but we had rebounded and seemed to be fighting with grit and finishing strong especially with that Bama showing where they were losing until the end. The other loss was 34-29 to State oddly enough but we had only been blownout by Auburn. That seemed an outlier. Arkansas going into the game was 4-5, with all their wins against non-conference foes and all five losses to SEC teams. That was as bad a beating as we have ever had under Miles right next to the Alabama title game. We literally had NO success in any phase at any time on those two teams in those two games. None. Not even in garbage time. No other games compare to those two, not even last night in this LSU fan's view. Do not be held prisoner of the moment, but that does not remove the sting nor the stench from O and this team. Last night was an atrocity, just not as bad as those two terrors.
Not sure entire starters were shell shocked but I do sense our qb is susceptible to 'battle fatigue.' Resiliency is not his strong suit.
