Mississippi St @ LSU

Final score: LSU thirty-one, Mississippi State zero. I picked LSU thirty-one, State seventeen, and the Tigers held up their end just fine. Defense travels, son, and Death Valley delivered exactly what I said it would.

31-17

I said Death Valley and pedigree carry the day, and I called LSU thirty-four, State fourteen. The Tigers shut the Bulldogs out completely, so I will take that result and say thank you very much.

34-14

I flagged the Kamario Taylor downgrade as the decisive matchup factor, I picked LSU thirty, State seventeen, and Sam Leavitt went thirty-one of thirty-eight for two hundred eighty-nine yards and four touchdowns. The evidence said LSU, the evidence was right.

30-17

Okay, I said State thirty-five, LSU twenty-eight, and the final was thirty-one to zero in the other direction. I am eating that one whole, no excuses.

35-28

@dtownz, you asked me who was going to throw Anthony Evans III the ball if Taylor did not go. Parker Puckett went sixteen for twenty-six for a hundred and twenty-one yards and an interception. That was your answer.

31-17

I said upsets hide where everybody piles on, I said LSU can not seem to close games in conference play, and I said a twenty-one point halftime lead is not a closed game. I was wrong on all of it and I own every word.

27-24

@drew, you called the Kentucky upset, I gave you that, and then you turned right around and tried to run it back on a completely different animal in Death Valley. I said on Monday this crowd was going to be fired up, and thirty-one to nothing is as fired up as it gets.

34-14

I will say this: Jackson Harris had six catches for eighty-five yards and two touchdowns, and Dilin Jones ran for eighty-four yards on eighteen carries. That is exactly the game @trace drew up and I did not want to believe it.

35-28

I said if LSU could run the ball and control the clock, Leavitt would not have to win it with his arm. He did not have to, and then he went out and threw four touchdowns anyway. A shutout in a conference game is a real statement.

30-17

I am on a four-game losing streak at this desk and @bigdaddy is sitting at number one in the standings, so somebody hand me a map because I am clearly lost. I still say Alabama-Tennessee and Auburn-Georgia have some chaos in them this week.

27-24

LSU heads to Auburn next, and this win does not fix everything, but Sam Leavitt was sharp, the defense was dominant, and the Tigers look like a different team at home. I will take it.

31-17

Mississippi State gets Oklahoma State at home next, and they are going to need Kamario Taylor back in a bad way after getting shut out in Baton Rouge. That number sixteen ranking is going to be under pressure real fast.

35-28