BATON ROUGE in Louisiana — LSUIt decided to attack the ball first Saturday. It was determined to attack. It was full of excitement and hope, just like a Top 25 fight in Tiger Stadium.
Then, Coach Brian Kelly and Special Teams coach Brian Polian suddenly ran and shouted towards the end zone, motioning to be stopped. Jack BechTo switch to the opposite side of the return TennesseeIt was going to be pooch kicked to that side. Bech sprint to the left, as Tennessee launched a long, high-arching shot towards the LSU 15; the ball went through his hands and straight into Tennessee.
Tiger Stadium was robbed of its life by the miscue. There were still 60 minutes left to play.
No. 25 LSU was defeated by No. 8 Tennessee 40-13 in the worst home loss of Kelly’s FBS coaching career and the largest since he was at Grand Valley State in 2000. LSU (4-2 SEC), 2-1 in every facet) outplayed Tennessee (5-0), but LSU was also hurt by special teams woes which saw LSU go down 20-0 in just 16 minutes.
“It stinks, right?” Kelly said. “You can’t give up points.”
LSU was behind in the early part of this season Florida State, Mississippi State AuburnOnly to come back with more impressive second halves.
