Leonard Fournette’s Heisman form continues with Shaquille O’Neal backing LSU

“I think Leonard Fournette probably has another 120 yards if we’re not penalized”, explained LSU head coach Les Miles. “He basically just destroyed ‘park ball.’ He was running over all the kids”.

The Tigers opened the second-half scoring by marching 76 yards in 12 plays to set up Trent Domingue’s 21-yard field goal that made it 10-3. So did wide receiver Malachi Dupre, who took a hard hit after jumping for a pass. LSU is seventh in the nation this season in most penalty yards a game with 86.

ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit released his predictions for the College Football Playoff following Week 4 and LSU is included in his list. When the starters are in the game, you can expect vanilla play calling.

LSU still has not committed a turnover and the Syracuse defense had forced nine in the first three games. Until Fournette gets stopped in his tracks repeatedly, LSU’s offensive diet should consist of 20-25 servings of Fournette each Saturday.

SYRACUSE, New York (AP) – Syracuse linebacker Zaire Franklin winced at the thought of what might have been.

Here’s their chance the defense for Syracuse has been salty, I mean really salty.

How different this 3-0 feels and looks compared to last year’s quick start is like comparing an iPhone to a doorstop. He brought Syracuse to 17-10 with a play-action 40-yard TD pass over the middle to Brisly Estime at 6:02 of the third and hit Ben Lewis on a 2-yard toss early in the fourth. Erase those and it is another great performance from the side of the ball that LSU fans can always count on. “I reverted back to old habits”. This was something coach Les Miles harped on after the game. “They believe they can win”.

Brandon Harris. As the starting quarterback at LSU, he gets plenty of fanfare in the SEC, but he has not been mentioned much in the national media due to the Tigers reliance on the running game.

“His story is spectacular”, Fournette said about Moore. Elliott had 108 yards against Northern Illinois and this season he has put up 331 rushing yards and four touchdowns while averaging over five yards per carry.

The 24 points Mahoney and Syracuse’s offense scored might have been enough for Syracuse to pull off the upset if not for Fournette, LSU’s Heisman Trophy Award hopeful running back. The Carrier Dome field is named in honor of Davis, the first black player to win the coveted trophy (1961), and Little, now an administrator at Syracuse, watched from the chancellor’s box. “We have characteristics of a dominant team, but we didn’t dominate this opponent”.

This is Fournette’s second consecutive game with at least 200 rushing yards, as he went for 228 against Auburn last Saturday. He finished 19 of 33 for 288 yards with an interception before J.T. Barrett replaced him late in the game.

No play was bigger than Travin Dural’s 51-yard catch on a third-and-5 play in the fourth quarter after the Orange moved within a touchdown.