Tinker Town: " Late November, and all the front runners in college football are starting to run into the homestretch with a mad and furious dash for the winning wire. Who is going to have the strength and speed to win it all?
Les Miles is wailing on his Bugle about the fighting spirit of his LSU tigers football players. How far can LSU go?
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A week after Earth-shaking BCS chaos, with No. 1 Kansas State and
No. 2 Oregon both being felled by stunning upsets, the dust has cleared
on a familiar LSU bowl scene with but a few games to influence the
outcome.
For the Tigers, it basically comes down to their game Friday at Arkansas, Florida at Florida State on Saturday and the Southeastern Conference Championship Game on Dec. 1.
If LSU takes care of its business as a nearly two-touchdown favorite over a discouraged (but dangerous) Razorbacks team, the Tigers will be in the clubhouse with a 10-2 record and wait for the BCS hotline (likely the Sugar calling) to ring.
The line will be disconnected, however, if Florida wins at Florida State. The Gators are No. 4 in the BCS, and if they stay would become an automatic BCS at-large team.
If Florida loses, the question for the Gators, LSU, and the rest of the two-loss SEC contenders is who gets picked.
Assuming Alabama beats hapless Auburn on Saturday and Georgia disposes of 6-5 Georgia Tech, next Saturday’s Alabama-Georgia winner is going to Miami for the BCS National Championship Game.
The loser could wind up in the Sugar Bowl, but the only time the Sugar has taken the SEC Championship Game loser, it was after Florida and Alabama locked up in a pair of 1-2 matchups in 2008 and 2009.
Alabama might get the Sugar if it loses to Georgia, but the Crimson Tide fans this close to another BCS title shot aren’t going to be excited about a Sugar-y consolation prize. And two-loss Georgia could slip behind LSU in the BCS, having lost by 28 to a South Carolina team LSU beat.
Some have trumpeted Texas A&M as an at-large Sugar pick, but the excitement over Johnny Football will lose out to the cold political reality of LSU being the Sugar’s backyard, being higher ranked and having beaten the Aggies. Read more...http://theadvocate.com/
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Les Miles is wailing on his Bugle about the fighting spirit of his LSU tigers football players. How far can LSU go?
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LSU Football - Geaux Tigher!!!
| Shreveport Times *1 | Guilbeau: Sugar Bowl could come down to LSU or Texas A&M |
| LSU Reveille | LSU looks to finish strong against scuttling Arkansas |
| The Advocate | Rabalais: LSU bowl picture gains focus |
| Associated Press | Emotional Smith likely nearing his coaching end as Arkansas prepares for LSU |
| ESPN Blog | Approach of Les Miles is reason LSU Tigers have consistent success |
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LSU
Rabalais: LSU bowl picture gains focus
BY SCOTT RABALAIS
Advocate sportswriter
Advocate sportswriter
For the Tigers, it basically comes down to their game Friday at Arkansas, Florida at Florida State on Saturday and the Southeastern Conference Championship Game on Dec. 1.
If LSU takes care of its business as a nearly two-touchdown favorite over a discouraged (but dangerous) Razorbacks team, the Tigers will be in the clubhouse with a 10-2 record and wait for the BCS hotline (likely the Sugar calling) to ring.
The line will be disconnected, however, if Florida wins at Florida State. The Gators are No. 4 in the BCS, and if they stay would become an automatic BCS at-large team.
If Florida loses, the question for the Gators, LSU, and the rest of the two-loss SEC contenders is who gets picked.
Assuming Alabama beats hapless Auburn on Saturday and Georgia disposes of 6-5 Georgia Tech, next Saturday’s Alabama-Georgia winner is going to Miami for the BCS National Championship Game.
The loser could wind up in the Sugar Bowl, but the only time the Sugar has taken the SEC Championship Game loser, it was after Florida and Alabama locked up in a pair of 1-2 matchups in 2008 and 2009.
Alabama might get the Sugar if it loses to Georgia, but the Crimson Tide fans this close to another BCS title shot aren’t going to be excited about a Sugar-y consolation prize. And two-loss Georgia could slip behind LSU in the BCS, having lost by 28 to a South Carolina team LSU beat.
Some have trumpeted Texas A&M as an at-large Sugar pick, but the excitement over Johnny Football will lose out to the cold political reality of LSU being the Sugar’s backyard, being higher ranked and having beaten the Aggies. Read more...http://theadvocate.com/
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WORSHAM: On the Ball
© 2012 Tiger Rag
‘The Rant’ was Miles’ best moment yet
By CODY WORSHAMTiger Rag Editor
LSU’s 41-35 victory over Ole Miss on Saturday night was, to understate it, dramatic.
In a back-and-forth affair in which victory seemed to always be just outside the Tigers’ reach, LSU somehow pulled out victory, thanks to a game-tying 89-yard punt return for a touchdown by Odell Beckham, Jr. with 9:10 left in the game, 282 passing yards from Zach Mettenberger, four forced turnovers, and three rushing touchdowns from freshman running back Jeremy Hill, the last of which came with 15 seconds left to give LSU the win. It was a game so unpredictable as to be unscriptable, and it seems as ridiculous in reflection as it did in real-time.
But the game’s drama, abundant was it was, had nothing on the performance Tiger head coach Les Miles gave in his post game press conference.
Like the game, Miles’s speech was unforeseeable - an emotional roller coaster that no one could have seen coming. “The Rant” - as it shall henceforth be known - was itself as varied in tone and temperature as was the entire Tiger team in the classic victory.
Like the Tigers were for 60 minutes, Miles was for 10 minutes and 23 seconds both viciously defensive and honestly vulnerable; he was both physically restrained and kinesthetically unleashed; he was equal parts hilarious and horrifying; he was both inordinately complex and sweetly simple.
In short, Les was Les at his best.
He was funny.
- On Beckham’s return: “I mean, wasn’t the Billy Cannon return 89 yards? Wasn’t it really the same route? Honest to Pete. Someone needs to check that out - where the cuts were and that sideline. Was it the same night? Is this Halloween?”
- On Beckham’s return again: “I felt like a bowler at a bowling alley.” *Strange pantomime of, I think, a bowler hoping his ball doesn’t roll in the gutter.*
- On his love for his players: “Spectacular group of men. You go find them, throw your armsaroundthem, and you give them a big kiss on the mouth…if you’re a girl.”
- On the game: “It was a wild and wooly one. Maybe you guys will name this one that. ‘The Wild and Wooly Game.’ Don’t we have the ‘Earthquake Game?’ There’s a bunch of them. It was wild and wooly.”
- Asked if he saw this result coming: “Did you?!?! Because if you did, you should have told me! I could have done something about it!”
- “How frickin’ easy it would have been to say, ‘It’s their night.’ How f**kin easy it would have been.”
- On sixth year senior Josh Dworaczyk: “Dworaczyk’s been here longer than I have. Are you sh**tin’ me?”
- “It would be said about my career at Michigan: it was a flop.”
- “I underplayed by own expectations. My head coach would have probably told me that you overplayed your physical limitations.”
- “Here’s what a coach does: he asks [his players] to work hard. And he says to them that if you work hard, you will have a reward in victory. And I’m fortunate because they believed me. The reason I stand before you today because they believe me. If they don’t I’m gone. I’m in the crowd, I’m just another. They believe in their team, they believe in their school, and they believe in each other. That’s what’s got me fired up.”
- “This was the kind of film that will be truly beneficial to our secondary.”
- “I didn’t expect that. I expected this would be a game we would all
translate comfortably after the game. This was unusual, at best.” Read more...http://www.tigerrag.
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