BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU and Mississippi State set the game back ages on a rainy Saturday night in Tiger Stadium, and the Tigers won a 19–3 snoozefest that needs little rehashing, but we’ll give you our thoughts anyhow.
Get ready for the annual two weeks of hype building up to LSU-Alabama. Both teams are off next week before meeting in Tiger Stadium on Nov. 3, but will their latest matchup live up to its billing? The Tigers didn’t really supply much optimism on that front Saturday. They mustered just 79 yards of offense in an ugly first half, struggled to create running lanes for much of the night (they had just 60 yards rushing through three quarters before finishing with 110), dropped at least four passes and just didn’t look like the top-five team that drubbed Miami to open the season and Georgia a week ago.