Baton Rouge – Saturday night’s game in Death Valley will go down as one of the greatest games ever played in Tiger Stadium as LSU defeated Alabama in overtime 32-31. Every time the Crimson Tide scored, LSU had an answer, and it happened in front of 102-thousand fans. Tigers Coach Brian Kelly says offense, defense, and special teams all played well and Tiger Nation was a factor.
“They created an energy unlike one that I can remember that was sustainable for our football that was truly a home-field advantage for us,” said Kelly.
LSU won the game on a two-point conversion, a gusty call by the first-year coach as he elected to go for two, and the win in the first overtime period. Kelly liked the idea of rolling quarterback Jayden Daniels out and setting up a play for his freshman tight end Mason Taylor, who caught the ball in the end zone.
“Before the game started, if you asked me, hey I’m going to give you one play and if you are successful on that one play, you beat Alabama, I would have taken that 100 times out of 100,” said Kelly.
The victory improves LSU’s record 7-2, 5-1 in the SEC, and a win on Saturday in Arkansas could put them in the SEC Championship game. Kelly says this is why he came to LSU.
“You know we are here to graduate champions and we want to win a championship, now we put ourselves in a position where we are contenders for the SEC championship, but we got Arkansas next,” said Kelly.
LSU will travel to Fayetteville this Saturday for an 11 AM kickoff against a struggling Razorback team.
After LSU lost to Florida State in the season opener, many thought this would be a tough transitional season for the Tigers. But Daniels kept the faith that the 2022 season would be a special one.
“I knew what was I capable of doing coming here, I knew what this team was capable of doing, Coach Kelly is a great coach, it was going to take time, everything wasn’t going to happen right at the jump, we wish it would of, it was going to take time, I would have believed because I had confidence in the team and the confidence moving forward that we were going to get better each week,” said Daniels.
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