BATON ROUGE, La. — The last question Ed Orgeron accepted in his postgame press conference would not involve his team’s next opponent, or the targeting call against his All-America linebacker, Devin White. LSU’s sports information director, Michael Bonnette, saw to that. “One more for coach,” Bonnette told a room full of reporters before a dramatic pause, “about this game.”
He was only half-joking. You don’t often see a postgame news conference like this one, where a minutes-old 16-point victory over a Top 25 team was roundly ignored by the media in attendence. That’s because LSU’s next game is against top-ranked Alabama, and that’s because LSU will be without one of their best players and top NFL draft prospects for the first half of that game.