Tuscaloosa News
With a second-place ranking in the first College Football Playoff poll and armed with a Heisman Trophy favorite in Leonard Fournette, the unbeaten LSU Tigers seemed poised to end a four-game losing streak to the Alabama Crimson Tide.
But with the eyes of the nation watching, the Tigers ran into an Alabama defense determined to derail Fournette’s front-running Heisman status and crush LSU’s national championship hopes Saturday night in an electric Bryant-Denny Stadium.
In the aftermath of Alabama’s 30-16 victory, the Crimson Tide held a LSU rushing attack that averaged more than 300 yards per game to a paltry 54 yards.