LSU Football: 3 takeaways from blowout win over Oklahoma in Peach Bowl

The 2019 Peach Bowl was effectively over by halftime. LSU football booked its ticket to the College Football Playoff title game with a rout of Oklahoma.

Oklahoma came to Atlanta for their third straight appearance in the College Football Playoff semifinals. The hope for Sooners fans was that a combination of overall experience among the coaching staff and roster, coupled with the addition of graduate transfer Jalen Hurts from Alabama, would put Oklahoma over the top and make the third time the charm for earning a title game appearance.

LSU had no interest in that narrative. Coming right out and taking it to Oklahoma, the Tigers booked their ticket to the championship game in New Orleans in a 63-28 pummeling of the Sooners. Up 21-7 after one quarter and 49-14 at the half, the Bayou Bengals put the game out of reach with little sweat. The offense racked up 693 total yards in the 35-point blowout.

It was the kind of game where it looked like LSU was playing the old EA Sports NCAA Football game in Rookie mode — especially with the video-game-style circles around players on so many of the ESPN highlights of the game. About the only thing that went wrong for the Tigers was watching Cade York’s 46-yard field goal attempt clang off the upright early in the fourth quarter.

Thus LSU moves on to face either Ohio State or Clemson, while Oklahoma heads back to Norman to prepare for the start of spring semester and wonder what might have been.

What should we walk away from the Peach Bowl remembering from what proved to be a lopsided semifinal game? Here are three takeaways from the mismatch in the first College Football Playoff semifinal that was dominated by LSU at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on the last Saturday of 2019.