No. 8 Tennessee travels to Death Valley in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to face No. 25 LSU Saturday at 12 p.m. EST, and it will mark the Volunteers’ first trip to Baton Rouge since a wild ending in 2010 that saw LSU win 16-14, scoring a touchdown on an untimed down.
LSU ran the ball inside the 5-yard line with 32 seconds remaining, and in classic Les Miles fashion, his team was completely disorganized in the two-minute offense. Miscommunication led to the Tigers stalling in snapping their next play until there were only three seconds remaining. Center T. Bob Hebert’s snap sailed past quarterback Jordan Jefferson, and Tennessee lost in humiliating fashion.
Luckily for LSU, the refs were the only ones paying attention to what was going on during that sequence, as Tennessee had 13 defenders on the field when the ball was snapped, which is two more players than are traditionally allowed. The defensive penalty gave the Tigers one untimed down, which they scored on, and Tennessee lost in humiliating fashion.
The win came in the middle of the Tigers’ current five-game winning streak against the Volunteers, which began in 2006. The teams last played each other in 2017, a 30-10 LSU victory in Knoxville.
LSU has been led by their defense, allowing just 14.8 points and 185 passing yards per game. They face their stiffest test against a Tennessee offense averaging 48.5 points and 366 passing yards per game.
If the game lives up to its predecessor, viewers will see another wild ending in Tiger Stadium. As the teams proved in 2010, it doesn’t have to be nighttime for chaos to take over Death Valley.
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