What a Game . . .

Wow, what a game. Troy State appeared in Baton Rouge for the "big check game." It happened to be LSU's homecoming game too. So everybody thought this would be turkey shoot - what a surprise they had in store for themselves.

LSU received the opening kick off and did a three and out. Troy took over on their 8 yard line and preceded to pass their way down the field into the end zone for touchdown. And they kept it up for the whole half. Went into the locker room with a insurmountable 24 to three lead. Man, it really looked bad, LSU at that time had a total of two first downs earned to Troy's dozen or so first downs earned.

LSU was sloppy. LSU could not run the ball and the LSU offensive coordinator who is dumber than a rock continued to try to run. Troy recognized this and stuffed the line every time. It was so obvious it was painful. It was stupid. It was just disgusting.

And then the freshman quarterback, Lee, threw his usual pick six and Troy scored again. It was 31 to 3 midway through the third quarter. It looked grim. The fans were booing LSU (and the coaching staff). They stadium had almost emptied, folks were going home or out to eat - whatever. They were leaving in droves.

With 16 minutes and 26 seconds to go in the game things began to happen. The freshman quarterback caught fire. And LSU scored 37 unanswered points in that 16 minutes and 26 seconds. Troy State was in shock. They thought they had it locked up and won. They were going to say to Auburn and Bama, "Look what we did that you could not do." Recruting would have been terrific.

In stead they go home with the big check and perhaps some awe. They thought they were going to add a victory to their belt that made them really look good. They were cherishing the great victory. At least they were until the middle of the third quarter of the game.

I guess the moral of the story is do not piss off LSU. Ohio State did it last year and got their skins handed to them in the BCS Bowl. Alabama almost go theirs handed to themselves this year, in fact, won the game in overtime.

Well maybe LSU will redeem itself after two whopping big losses to Florida and Georgia. They still have to face Ole Miss and Arkansas. Ole Miss is beginning to come alive under Houston Nutt (the great Arkansas mistake letting him go). So Ole Miss is going to be a tough game and you can bet they will watch the films of the Troy State game and use that intelligence to their benefit.

As an aside, congratulations to Vandy, they beat one of their rivals, Kentucky. That qualifies them for a bowl and I am sure they will get picked up for one. I hope it is a good one.

Would it be interesting if LSU played Vandy; you can bet it would be a good game. There is talk that LSU, if they win out, will go to the Cotton Bowl. But I think that is just talk.