Lets look at some of the losses of Coach Les Miles

Tenn ’05 – His 1st loss. Ahead at halftime by 21 points, and by 17 in the 4th qtr. Starts the 2nd half by running Shyrone and Skyler exclusively, when they had a combined total of -3 yards on 1 carry in the 1st half. Result = fumble, and a Tenn TD. Goes on to lose in OT. We see the beginnings of Miles’ basic philosophy, “play not to lose.”

Aub ’06 – The infamous Auburn game. Scored 3 points against an Auburn team that gave up 14 points a game. Another example of Miles’ philosophy that Crowton talked about, where Miles believes in keeping the score close and winning in the 4th.

Fla ’06 – Poor offensive output. LSU only scored 10 points in a year where they averaged 34. This is the year of the fabled jump pass, which still haunts Les to this day

KY ’07 – An example of Miles shutting down the offense that is working, while trying to squeeze out a win. After having over 90 yards in the 1st half, Charles Scott gets one 2nd half carry.

Ark ’07 – With the BCS invite on the line, I can’t even begin to explain what happened. Unranked Arky goes off for 500 yards, 400 on the ground. This was also the year Houston Nutt was fired.

2008 – MalVeto; 5 losses. ‘nuff said

Fla ’09 – After the ’08 debacle the offensive shutdown was full on. Jefferson was anointed as QB. This was one of those games where we couldn’t get past midfield. Scored 3 points.

Ole Miss ’09 – the “clock it” fiasco

Penn St ’09 – playing on the same nasty field; PSU had 21 first downs to our 9, 124 rushing yards to our 41, and led in TOP 38 to 21.

2010 – The offense was so bad that Miles had to call on Lee to salvage 2 games. You know it killed him to do it, but his job was on the line after 5-loss and a 4-loss seasons. Lost to unranked Arky. JJ was sacked 4 times, fumbled 4 times, yet no Lee, despite him playing big earlier in the year??

Bama ’11 – Worst offense in BCS history

2012 – No need to rehash, while still fresh on everyones mind. Fla, Bama, and Clemson. Trying to win by playing it close until the end. Basically sucks as a philosophy, when your coach has a proven track record of poor clock and timeout management.