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LSU's Lane Kiffin PROVEN Exactly RIGHT Against Auburn Tigers! | SEC | LSU Tigers · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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  Speaker 1: Every SEC schedule has one. There's a game that nobody
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  Speaker 1: circles in August, the one that looks pretty harmless on paper,
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  Speaker 1: and then it shows up in late October wearing the
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  Speaker 1: other team's best week of the season. For LSU, I
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  Speaker 1: think that game was Auburn. Not because Auburn was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be great. Auburn wasn't supposed to be great. It
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  Speaker 1: was because of what Auburn did seven days earlier. Auburn
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  Speaker 1: went on the road and knocked off the number one
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  Speaker 1: team in the country in Georgia. Alex McPherson, a 34-yard
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  Speaker 1: walk-off field goal for the ballgame. That kind of win
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  Speaker 1: can turn a season. It can turn a fan base,
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  Speaker 1: and it turns a sleepy Saturday on the Plains into
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  Speaker 1: a sold-out building that truly thinks anything is possible. And LSU,
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  Speaker 1: they had a problem nobody in Baton Rouge wanted to
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  Speaker 1: say out loud. They were struggling to win a conference
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  Speaker 1: game on the road. Not this year, not last year.
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  Speaker 1: Hadn't been done since October of 2024, if I can
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  Speaker 1: read home and away correctly. I think that's eight straight
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  Speaker 1: SEC road losses. Six of them did happen before Lane
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  Speaker 1: Kiffin ever showed up, and then two more on his watch.
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss, and then a gun punch in Kentucky. So
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  Speaker 1: think about the setup here. A team riding the biggest
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  Speaker 1: high of its season in a team that has completely
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  Speaker 1: forgotten how to win in somebody else's house. Jordan Hare,
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  Speaker 1: packed to the rafters. LSU, a touchdown favorite. That's not
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  Speaker 1: just a football game. That's a trap that has a
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  Speaker 1: kickoff time. Kiffin knew it. He actually admitted he was
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  Speaker 1: pulling for Auburn to beat Georgia the week before. Not
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  Speaker 1: because he liked Auburn, but because he knew exactly what
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  Speaker 1: kind of hangover that win could create. The words he
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  Speaker 1: used were, relief syndrome is real. But here's the thing
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  Speaker 1: about relief syndrome. It only works if you let the
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  Speaker 1: other team off the mat. So, did LSU step in
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  Speaker 1: it today? Or did they finally learn how to walk
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  Speaker 1: into a hostile building and take it over? This is
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  Speaker 1: TJ Pittenger. It's SEC and college football addiction. Let's jump
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  Speaker 2: Let's go back to the start. LSU wins the toss
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  Speaker 2: into first here. I love this.
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  Speaker 1: Put the ball in the hands of the team that's
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  Speaker 1: emotionally sky high. Make them prove it right away.
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  Speaker 2: They couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: They went three and out. LSU gets the ball on
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  Speaker 1: a short field. You go up three nothing after a
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  Speaker 1: short field goal. Nothing's crazy has happened yet. Auburn answers
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  Speaker 1: the right way. 12 plays, 69 yards, two third and
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  Speaker 1: long conversions. McPherson, the guy who walked it off last week,
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  Speaker 1: ties it from 23 yards out. And for a second,
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  Speaker 1: you could almost feel it. That is how traps work.
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  Speaker 1: They don't spring all at once. They start to tighten.
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  Speaker 1: Then Leavitt went six for six, six throws, six completions.
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  Speaker 1: And the last one was a 10 yard touchdown, 10
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  Speaker 1: to three LSU late in the first. All right, LSU's ahead,
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  Speaker 1: but this is where the game should have maybe gotten
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable because Auburn's punter uncorked a career-long 69-yarder in the
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  Speaker 1: second quarter and pinned LSU at its own five-yard line.
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  Speaker 2: You're backed up.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the road. You're in a stadium that's waiting
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  Speaker 1: for just one mistake, and then it looks like they
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  Speaker 1: got it. Winters came down with what looked like an interception.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Hare explodes. This is the moment, right? This is
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  Speaker 1: the exact moment every LSU fan has seen before on
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  Speaker 1: the road in this league over and over again. Replay
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  Speaker 1: overturns it. It's not a pick. And instead of rattling LSU,
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  Speaker 1: it seemed to wake them up a little bit. A
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  Speaker 1: few plays later, they're facing fourth and two from their
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  Speaker 1: own 31. Their own 31, on the road, up a score.
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  Speaker 1: They go for it.
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  Speaker 2: They get it. And they didn't stop.
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  Speaker 1: 14 plays, 95 yards, capped off by a touchdown pass
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  Speaker 1: from Levitt to, I think that was Tredez Green on
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  Speaker 1: that one, who was back after missing the last few
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  Speaker 1: games with a sprained knee.
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  Speaker 2: It's 17-3.
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  Speaker 1: That drive is the one that I keep coming back to.
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  Speaker 1: It's a 95-yard drive that started with a career-long punt.
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  Speaker 1: It survived an interception that wasn't won, and then it
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  Speaker 1: turned a fourth-down call from your own side of the
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  Speaker 1: field into something massive. It wasn't a team that was
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  Speaker 1: playing scared on the road. It was a team daring
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  Speaker 1: the road to do something about it. Now, credit to Auburn.
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  Speaker 1: They did something with it here. Their best drive of
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  Speaker 1: the half, 11 plays, 75 yards on third and eight
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  Speaker 1: for midfield. Brown hits Singleton for 15. Two plays later,
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  Speaker 1: it's third and 12, and the rush is coming. Brown
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  Speaker 1: does the one thing LSU had spent all week trying
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  Speaker 1: to prevent.
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  Speaker 2: He escapes.
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  Speaker 1: He cuts right and takes off for 34 yards, gets
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  Speaker 1: down to your one-yard line. He then punches it in himself,
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  Speaker 1: and we're thinking, hey, we've got a game here, 17-10.
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  Speaker 1: The building's back in it. It's a one-possession game. Auburn
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  Speaker 1: has the momentum. The crowd is loud. Every bit of
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  Speaker 1: that Georgia energy is flooding back into the stadium. This
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  Speaker 1: is the trap, right? This is the spot where the
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  Speaker 1: old LSU, the one that lost eight straight SEC road games,
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  Speaker 1: gives one back, whether it's a penalty, a sack, a turnover, something.
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  Speaker 2: Three plays.
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  Speaker 1: That's how long it lasted. On third and five, Levitt
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  Speaker 1: finds Harris on a crossing route over the middle. It's
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  Speaker 1: maybe a 12-yard throw, 15. Harris turns it into a
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  Speaker 1: 70-yard touchdown. It's 24-10 with 4.29 left in the half.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, that's the game.
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  Speaker 1: I know there were still almost 35 minutes to go.
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  Speaker 2: The scoreboard says otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: But that play, that response, three snaps after Auburn had
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  Speaker 1: finally grabbed the momentum back, that's where it all ended.
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  Speaker 1: Because LSU's defense forced another three and out, and then
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  Speaker 1: the offense went another 74 yards and 10 plays.
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  Speaker 2: Levitt finished it himself.
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  Speaker 1: You get into the end zone again with, what, less
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  Speaker 1: than 20 seconds left on the clock, 31 to 10
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  Speaker 1: at halftime.
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  Speaker 2: Game's over.
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  Speaker 1: LSU scored on five of their first half possessions. There
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  Speaker 1: were only six of them in a building they were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be afraid of against a team that was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be riding a wave. That wave never got
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  Speaker 1: to shore. The second half was honestly a slog. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to pretend that it was phenomenal to watch LSU.
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  Speaker 1: Got the ball to open the third quarter. They burned
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  Speaker 1: roughly half of the quarter on an 11 play drive
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  Speaker 1: that went just 28 yards and no points.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody scored in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Jones took one in from 12 yards out in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth to make it 38, 10 Auburn got a
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  Speaker 1: late touchdown from a backup quarterback. Um, Good for him.
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  Speaker 1: Good moment, I'm sure. But that's all it was. Final score,
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  Speaker 1: LSU 38, Auburn 17. The streak of eight straight road
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  Speaker 1: losses like that is officially dead. So what actually matters
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  Speaker 1: that experience. Takeaway number one, Sam Levitt stopped being the
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  Speaker 1: reason LSU loses on the road. That sounds harsh, but
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  Speaker 1: it's true. And the numbers from this season back it up.
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  Speaker 1: Coming into this game, Levitt had been responsible for all
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  Speaker 1: three LSU turnovers in those two road losses. both Ole
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  Speaker 1: Miss and Kentucky. You lost by a combined nine points.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to squint very hard to see how
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  Speaker 1: those games flip. Turnovers are massive. Today, he was 32
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  Speaker 1: of 45. He had a career-high 387 passing yards. He
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  Speaker 1: had three touchdowns. He had 54 more yards on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: He had four total touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: No turnovers.
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  Speaker 1: And that's two weeks in a row now that he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't had a turnover. Last Saturday against Mississippi State, he
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  Speaker 1: threw for just under 304 touchdowns in a 31-0 shutout.
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  Speaker 2: Clean then, clean now. And here's why it matters.
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  Speaker 1: When Kiffin talked about winning on the road this week,
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  Speaker 1: his whole point was that road losses usually aren't about
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  Speaker 1: the other team making plays.
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  Speaker 2: They're about you making mistakes. Fewer mistakes, more wins. Simple
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  Speaker 2: as that. Levitt was making mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: And now for two weeks, he's been doing the opposite.
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  Speaker 2: That's what LSU paid for.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they went and got out of the portal
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  Speaker 1: when they got one of the most sought-after quarterbacks in
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  Speaker 1: the country. Not to put up numbers against overmatched opponents
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  Speaker 1: at home, to walk into Jordan Hare and not blink,
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't blink today. Takeaway number two, LSU built
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  Speaker 1: a cage for Byron Brown, and I don't think he
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  Speaker 1: ever got out of it. One week earlier, he ran
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  Speaker 1: for 115 yards against Georgia. He had a touchdown. He
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  Speaker 1: was the whole story. McPherson may have kicked the winner,
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  Speaker 1: but Brown was the engine of that upset. LSU watched
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  Speaker 1: that film, and they made a decision. They said, you're
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  Speaker 1: not beating us with your legs. They blitzed him. They
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  Speaker 1: splied him. From the very first series, the message was clear.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to beat us, you're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to do it from the pocket, and he could not.
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  Speaker 1: He was 15 of 24, 160 yards. He was sacked
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  Speaker 1: six times, I believe. He still led Auburn in rushing,
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  Speaker 1: and that's just 21 yards that he had to lead them.
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  Speaker 1: You take away that 34-yard scramble, and you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback who spent most of the day running backwards.
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  Speaker 1: LSU finished, I believe, with 12 tackles for loss. Auburn's
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  Speaker 1: whole offense is built to play with a lead and
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  Speaker 1: then lean on the run game, and they never got
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  Speaker 1: to do either one of those things. It's not just effort.
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  Speaker 1: It's a plan, and it was about as well executed
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  Speaker 1: as a plan could be. Takeaway number three for me
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  Speaker 1: is that LSU answered every single punch, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that's new. I think this is the one that matters
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  Speaker 1: the most going forward. Every big moment in this game
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  Speaker 1: had a fork in the road. And every single time,
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  Speaker 1: LSU took the right path. Auburn ties it for three.
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  Speaker 1: LSU goes six for six and scores. Auburn pins you
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  Speaker 1: at the five LSU goes 95 yards Auburn gets an
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  Speaker 1: interception replay takes it away and LSU responds on goes
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  Speaker 1: for it on fourth down from their own 31 instead
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  Speaker 1: of just playing scared you went out and won it
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  Speaker 1: Auburn scores to make it a one possession game and
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  Speaker 1: the stadium is rocking three plays later 70 yard touchdown
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing to me that's been missing about this team.
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  Speaker 1: It's never been about talent. It's never been a talent
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  Speaker 1: problem at all. The problem has been the ability to
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  Speaker 1: answer the ability to absorb a hit and swing back
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  Speaker 1: immediately before the crowd and the moment can snowball today.
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  Speaker 1: They had an answer every time. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you that this was flawless. That third quarter was empty.
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  Speaker 1: You had an 11 play 28 yard drive that eats
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  Speaker 1: half a quarter and gets you absolutely nothing. It's not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily what you want to see, but when you have
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  Speaker 1: a lead like you did, you'll live. LSU is going
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  Speaker 1: to hit a stretch of this season that's a lot tougher.
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  Speaker 1: Auburn is likely a better team than we thought, but
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  Speaker 1: you're going to play a lot better competition than this,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't just take a quarter off.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that's a fixable problem.
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  Speaker 1: Losing eight straight on the road, to me, that's more
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  Speaker 1: of a culture problem, and one of those just got fixed.
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  Speaker 2: So where does that leave everybody?
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  Speaker 1: Auburn's now 4-3, and this was the first time in
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  Speaker 1: Alex Golish's season that they actually got blown out. The
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  Speaker 1: other losses to Florida and Tennessee, they were very competitive,
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  Speaker 1: and this one wasn't. It doesn't get easier. They head
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  Speaker 1: to Oxford next week to face No. 7 Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 1: Four straight ranked opponents for them. Was the Georgia win
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  Speaker 1: the start of something or the peak? We're going to
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  Speaker 1: find out for them. LSU 6-2, and they get a
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  Speaker 1: week off. which is great, and it always happens this
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  Speaker 1: way because what's waiting on the other side of that
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  Speaker 1: bye week is not a trap game. It's the opposite
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  Speaker 1: of a trap game. It's the one that everyone circled.
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  Speaker 1: Alabama in Death Valley on November 7th. Two weeks to
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  Speaker 1: heal up, to get healthy, to figure out that third quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Two weeks to sit with the fact that the thing
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  Speaker 1: that's haunted this team for two years is finally gone.
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  Speaker 1: LSU walked into the trap today, and they walked right
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  Speaker 1: back out with the key. What they do against Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: With already having two SEC losses, both of these teams
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  Speaker 1: will tell us everything about the Tigers and the Crimson
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