No. 10 LSU thrashed No. 23 Texas A&M 35-6 on Saturday in a convincing all-around performance as the Tigers put the disappointment of a Week 3 loss at Ole Miss in the past with a resounding victory. A week after faltering at home to Kentucky, the Aggies fell to 2-2 (0-2 SEC) while looking shockingly dysfunctional before a hostile crowd of 102,321 at Tiger Stadium.<\/p>\n
After a slow start for both offenses — the first half featured eight total punts — LSU seized command in the third quarter behind a breakthrough performance from quarterback Sam Leavitt. The Arizona State transfer played through injury to deliver his best performance in an LSU uniform, and he received plenty of support.<\/p>\n
The Tigers made life miserable for Texas A&M and struggling Aggies quarterback Marcel Reed. The veteran starter completed just 10 of 26 passes for 106 yards and an interception. By the time four LSU sacks were factored in, he registered minus-13 rushing yards.<\/p>\n
For an LSU program that footed a $54 million buyout bill to fire Brian Kelly last season and then poached Lane Kiffin from Ole Miss with a $13 million salary, this was the sort of performance that was expected. It was the same brand of dominance the Tigers displayed in a Week 1 beatdown of Clemson before a Week 3 loss against the Rebels in Kiffin’s return to Mississippi.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For Texas A&M, it was a humbling confirmation that last week’s loss to the Wildcats was more than just a fluke outcome. Forget about the College Football Playoff; with seven SEC games still on the docket, the Aggies have significant issues to address if they want to make a bowl game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 10 LSU thrashed No. 23 Texas A&M 35-6 on Saturday in a convincing all-around performance as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[261,538,786,797,27,260,29,28],"class_list":["post-449179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-football","tag-kentucky-wildcats","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-ole-miss-rebels","tag-texas","tag-texas-am-aggies","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}