Poseur’s Law states that if a team dominates the run of play but does not turn its advantage into points, the advantage dissipates. Which is a fancy way of saying that it never should have come down to this in the first place.
LSU turned a game that looked like it was shaping up into a blowout into a tense game. It was a demonstration of how timidity comes back to bite you in the ass, and how you need to cash in one opportunities. Because if you don’t kill the monster, he rises up like Jason Voorhees in the final act.