Leonard Fournette will not stop murdering Auburn

“This football team didn’t enjoy it”.

LSU Tigers running back Leonard Fournette (7) breaks away from Auburn Tigers cornerback Ed Paris (24) for a touchdown during the second quarter of a game at Tiger Stadium. Auburn can’t afford a loss – at home especially – to start 0-2 in conference play.

Warren Long ran 55 yards for a touchdown and recovered a fumbled punt return late to help Northwestern (3-0) beat Duke (2-1). “He’s just a much different player than the one player who took the field at Auburn“. “He sure loves playing. That was a guy who lacked real resolve to tackle”. Fournette heard about this and admitted it fueled him to run over, through, around and simply obliterate the entire Auburn defense on Saturday. If you can’t make a tackle, make some theater for the people in the cheap seats.

Just get out of his way. “He’s awesome “.

“If Leonard Fournette doesn’t get the Heisman Trophy, they ought to quit giving it”, Cannon, the head of dentistry at the Angola State Prison, said Monday night. During the week of preparation this week, everybody seen the tweets. “It didn’t motivate me, but it motivated everybody else”.

How about big plays, a trademark of Rhett Lashlee and Gus Malzahn offenses?

Fournette had arguably the most dominating performance ever for a LSU running back, rushing for a career-best 228 yard and three TDs in the 45-21 victory.

Then he turned in the other direction.

Fournette certainly appears to be building for success, in college and beyond. His answer? “That shouldn’t be hard , that much of a challenge”, he said.

Fournette averaged 8.6 yards before contact, and he accumulated 164 yards before getting hit, according to ESPN. But he rushed for 127 yards and a score against the stout Ole Miss defense on Saturday and has 370 yards and seven touchdowns through three games.

“I’ve been teaching that”, Wilson said. Says he’s like a running back who can throw.

Starks ripped off runs of 31 and 22 yards on consecutive carries before scoring two plays later, finishing with 81 yards for UCLA (3-0). It was precisely the ability to lose nobly against LSU which in many ways defined that 2013 Auburn team.

Auburn trailed 24-0 at halftime and scored its first points when Johnson escaped up the middle of the field for a 65-yard run early in the second half. “We went on from there and got better”, Garner said in an interview on the Auburn radio network.

Asked about possible switching quarterbacks, Malzahn said, “We are going to evaluate everything – at every position”.

He’s only in the frame for a second, but William Clapp flattens his man, opens a run lane and frees Fournette from the backfield without pesky interference from defenders. He did not set the world on fire, but he took another baby step by completing 12 of 17 passes (three more attempts than last week) for 74 yards (three more yards than last week) and a touchdown. Harris got the payoff with a 1-yard flip in the right corner to tight end Colin Jeter. Tolerance in those falter steps; speed in his keeps running past Auburn’s optional; effortlessness in his balletic slaloms; imagination in his judolike flinging of security Tray Matthews over him; quality, as when he dispatched wellbeing Blake Countess with an easygoing shoulder-butt. In that game, Prescott touched the ball 46 times and gained 373 yards – 268 passing and 105 rushing.

SEC media picked LSU to finish third behind Alabama and Auburn in the preseason. His 71-yarder to the Auburn four on the first play of the game set the tone for LSU.

The last time these two schools met was about 40 years ago.