Auburn Football 2017: 3 Takeaways from upset loss to LSU

1. This is exactly who LSU is this year

The Tigers shutout out a terrible BYU team and were upset at home by Troy. That just about sums up the weirdness that is this 2017 LSU squad. The Tigers just about summed up their year to date with their performance against LSU on Saturday.

Auburn roared out to a 17-0 first quarter lead, silencing the home crowd and bringing memories of the Mississippi State game to surface. Was Ed Orgeron’s team going to crumble again? Auburn would add a field goal at the beginning of the second quarter before the LSU offense began to wake up.

LSU started with a six play, 90-yard touchdown drive to put themselves on the board for the first time. After a Daniel Carlson field goal LSU worked an eight-play, 75 yard touchdown drive and followed that up with a D.J. Chark punt return touchdown to cut the deficit to three points. From a blowout to a slugfest, all in the span of a quarter.

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Frenetic, unbalanced and unpredictable. Points coming from all sorts of strange places and a defense that was both opportunistic and lucky. LSU is not a great football team. They might not even be good, but they’re so frustratingly unpredictable that they’ll always have a chance. That’s no the ceiling that Tiger fans were hoping for, but it’s going to make them watch every game from start to finish.