ARLINGTON, Texas -- Joe Burrow was on his way to the locker room, focused and quiet before his first career start, when he saw the scuffle across the field.
He'd been waiting four years for this moment -- a chance to finally run a major college football offense. He walked off the bus in AT&T Stadium with his headphones in, bobbing his head and strolling through the hall. He went through pre-game without talking, just throwing.
Then he saw his LSU teammates start shoving and shouting with the Hurricane players on his way back to the tunnel an hour before the game.