AUBURN, Ala. -- You can't rewrite the whole long, sad history of objectively bad, borderline counterproductive, LSU offenses in one day. Not even against a top-10 Auburn team on the road. Because, let's face it, we heard that same tall tale last season against the very same team when Danny Etling & Co. came roaring back from 20 points down at halftime to win inside Tiger Stadium.
That proved to be nothing but a trick. A sleight of hand. Yet another mirage in the post-JaMarcus Russell era, where there's no middle ground between extreme hope and extreme mediocrity, and trips to the College Football Playoff are possible but never likely.