{"id":280625,"date":"2025-11-09T04:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/280625\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T04:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:41:10","slug":"lsu-quarterback-garrett-nussmeier-benched-against-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/280625\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier benched against Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With LSU\u2019s offense struggling, fifth-year senior quarterback Garrett Nussmeier has been benched <a href=\"https:\/\/lsureveille.com\/269055\/sports\/lsu-football-vs-alabama-live-updates-from-bryant-denny-stadium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against Alabama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Michael Van Buren came in in relief. Van Buren transferred in from Mississippi State this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Nussmeier was 18 of 21 for 121 yards when he came out of the game, an average of 5.8 yards per pass attempt.<\/p>\n<p>LSU is currently down 17-6 to Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/lsureveille.com\/267871\/sports\/will-lsus-nussmeier-lose-starting-role-against-alabama-interim-head-coach-gives-verdict\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second straight game<\/a> Nussmeier has been sat down toward the end for Van Buren after he did so late in LSU\u2019s blowout loss to Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With LSU\u2019s offense struggling, fifth-year senior quarterback Garrett Nussmeier has been benched against Alabama. Sophomore Michael Van Buren&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-280625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}