florida vs lsu score

florida vs lsu score

Sometimes a coaching staff's week of preparation can almost be heard while watching a game. While Florida's coaches probably didn't exactly put it in these terms, they seemed like they looked at gamefilm of LSU and said, "this defensive line sucks; we can run on them all day long up the middle." The LSU defensive front isn't in the same zip code as the ones that paved the way to national championships and to so much success in the past. And that's why Florida won 13-3 in a game that wasn't anywhere near as close as the final score.

Sorry to go Neanderthal, but Florida's offensive line tested LSU's manhood and exposed it (thankfully, not literally). Dive play up the middle. Dive play up the middle. Pitch up the middle. Dive play up the middle. And so on, and so on and so on. Florida didn't have to do anything fancy offensively because its defense dominated as much as its O line did. The LSU offensive front is mediocre, and it showed. QB Jordan Jefferson completed 11-of-17 passes, but he averaged a mere 5.6 yards per completion and did nothing downfield ... he didn't have the time. Charles Scott tried to make things happen on his own running the ball, but against the swarming Florida D, he didn't have a chance. And the LSU coaches should've known this.

It seems like Les Miles and his staff are the last ones to know how their lines are struggling. LSU had to do something out of the norm and had to do something out of its comfort zone to beat a champion like Florida, and that includes going for it on 4th-and-goal from the one instead of kicking a field goal. LSU didn't play scared, but it didn't play fearless. And it also got beaten up. The spread might not be known for being a power offense, but with the Gators running it in Death Valley, it was a bulldozer.