LSU Football: 3 takeaways from monumental road win over Alabama
By Dante Pryor
Here are three takeaways from an intense game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU football. The Tigers will undoubtedly be No. 1 this week.
In one of the best games of the season, the Alabama Crimson tide fell to the visiting LSU Tigers at Bryant-Denny Stadium 46-41. Joe Burrow led the Tigers with 393 yards passing and three touchdowns. Crimson Tide quarterback Tua Tagovailoa threw for 418 yards and four touchdowns in a losing effort.
The hero of the game wasn’t Burrow, however. It was the Tigers’ diminutive dynamo junior running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire who had 180 total yards and four touchdowns. It wasn’t just the fact that he was there when Burrow needed him but Edwards-Helaire made big plays in critical moments. He ran for key first downs in the fourth quarter to help put the game away.
Alabama got a huge contribution from running back Najee Davis who ran for 146 yards.
LSU jumped out to a 33-13 halftime lead, but the Crimson Tide shut out the Tigers in the third quarter, and got back in the game cutting the lead 33-27 at the beginning of the fourth quarter, but the defense couldn’t hold the Tigers’ offense.
Burrow and Edwards-Helaire made big play after big play in the fourth quarter to keep the Tide at arms length and win a close game by five.
What’d we learn from LSU’s win?