LSU going for it on 4th down with 3+ left in game

Tried looking back a couple pages, but didn't see anything on this. What was yalls thoughts on this call? Ended up working out, but seemed a little sketchy to me at the time.

We were up 7 with around 3 minutes left in the 4th quarter and went for it on 4th & 1 from the 27, when we could have gone for the FG and gone up two scores. We made the 4th down, and then ended up kicking a field several plays later from the 29 and made it to go up by 10. This did also end up killing another 1 - 1.5 minutes of clock and two Florida timeouts which is huge in that situation.

But say we don't make it on 4th, then Florida goes down and ties it... I do believe the field goal would have been from the opposite hash with a freshman kicker, so you do have to account for that.