re: Today just had too much weight on the players

Agreed. Kind of what I was getting at in a thread I started about home field advantage not being as affective as you might think. You can say " oh man they'll never come in here and beat us after this whole offseason we've been through." or even better "oh man, LSU is playing in NOLA for the NC? No way we lose that game." it just doesn't work like that.