Arkansas Razorbacks 31, LSUTigers 14: Tigers’ Hopes Go Up in Smoke

Arkansas and Alabama are the only two teams that have been able to accomplish this during 2015.

I propose that instead of making up intangible excuses about how LSU “wasn’t fired up” or “excited for the game”, we look at what our senses are telling us. We already talked about Mizzou and its game with Tennessee, but Auburn, for all its struggles this year, can become bowl-eligible by beating Idaho. LSU should be able to handle the more finesse oriented Rebels and Aggies. The No. 17 Bulldogs (7-3, 3-3) are well known for beating who they are supposed to beat and losing to who they are supposed to lose to. They need to win their final two games and for Auburn to beat Alabama next week, a game in which the Crimson Tide will be heavily favored. Miles, to his credit, took full blame after Saturday night’s debacle. “This was absolutely my fault”, Miles said. “Nearly every kid grew up in Louisiana wanting to play for LSU”. “I have to give them the right stuff”.

Alex Collins helped the Razorbacks extend their lead at the 14:42 mark of the second quarter, with a long 80-yard touchdown run, completing a 4-play, 91-yard drive, to make the score 14-0.

“This was not fun”, Fournette said.

“It’s a time where as a coach, you just bury your head and you go to work, and you coach like there’s no tomorrow”, Miles said in rare dramatic form Monday at his weekly press luncheon, where he usually tends to downplay and gloss over things. “I would never trade my team for anything in the world”.

With the win, the Razorbacks are now 6-4 overall, 4-2 in the SEC.

Following a 31-14 dismantling of No. 17 LSU, Arkansas enters this week having won four straight games – its longest streak since a seven-game winning stretch in 2011. For another year the Golden Boot will reside in Fayetteville while LSU fans continue to live in denial by clinging onto the notion that they are year in and year out better than Arkansas.

After being held to only 31 yards on 19 carries the previous week Leonard Fournette was looking to bounce back, unfortunately poor blocking would hold him back and not let him come out “guns blazing”.

With Fournette, there aren’t a lot of examples that spring to mind of a player who seemed so certain to win the Heisman Trophy in roughly the middle of the season and so quickly seems unlikely.

“To see him run that and to see Dominique Reed block that guy on the 10-yard-line for, like, 30 seconds”, Bielema’s voice broke with happiness. The nation’s total offense leader didn’t return after getting sacked on TCU’s last offensive play of the first quarter.

No. 15 MI 48, IN 41, 2 OT: Mitchell Paige bobbled a fourth-down pass at the goal line that would have forced a third overtime, and the Wolverines fended off the Hoosiers to keep their Big Ten title hopes alive. He had 141 yards and two touchdowns against LSU. He hauled in the touchdown pass from Harris late in the first half. Linebacker Lamar Louis led the Tigers with nine tackles. The four November games were much closer, averaging a 9.7-point deficit.

They’ve now gone from being ranked No. 2 in the country with the inside track to the College Football Playoff to being eliminated from SEC West contention. Players are constantly out of position and allowed touchdowns of 52, 80 and 69 yards Saturday to Arkansas. That loss was looked at as an indictment of Texas A&M and Arkansas’ role was underplayed.