LSU vs Auburn Instant recap

• 1st half was riddled with awful officiating. A crucial pass to Jacob Hester which would have resulted in a first down was ruled incomplete although the replay clearly showed that Hester had posession before fumbling the ball out of bounds. Hester is later nailed five yards out of bounds resulting in no penalty.


• Alley Broussard is not back yet. He looks a step and a half slow every time he touches the ball. LSU, in fact, has no running game to speak of. This will continue to kill them in SEC play if it is not corrected.


• Auburn kicker John Vaughn, who missed five field goals last year in Baton Rouge missed a chip shot today. This officially makes him my favorite football player in the world.
  
  Keep your head up, John. Somebody out there loves you.


• Everyone will remember this game for the late pass interference against Auburn that was questionably overruled late in the game. I think the wrong call was made.. but I understand why it happened.


• Ja Marcuss Russell made two unforgivable plays on the last drive which cost LSU the game. With time running out, Russell scrambled right, found no one open, and instead of throwing the ball away unbelievably allowed himself to be sacked and a good twenty extra seconds to run off the clock. Two plays later, Russell in a similar situation threw a pointless completion to Justin Vincent over the middle... a play which would have stupidly ended the game had the Tigers managed to line up correctly before the snap. The illegal procedure penalty allowed one additional play. By this point, however, I can't imagine LSU deserving to win at all.. so in a way, I found the failure to score on the last play fitting.

So.. LSU is officially out of the running for a national championship. And.. unless Auburn blows it.. twice against SEC opponents.. the Tigers have no shot at a conference title. Remember.. at LSU.. any season during which you do not play for the SEC title or appear in a BCS bowl is basically a major failure. It may be time to consider firing Les Miles.

At least Notre Dame lost.