Only Air Force and Army have rushed the ball more times than LSU this year

Nega

LSA

Louisiana State Academy

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Wow! All were missing is navy and we are a service academy trying to win games without a passing game but a better defense at least. This will not work against the remaining schedule. At least the service academies use the QB as an option to run. LSU is gonna have to pass the ball or use the QB run option alot more going forward.

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Did you read the rest of Scott's write-up on this or just the first sentence of the paragraph that was posted on Dandy Don's site.

Army: 401 total rushes
LSU: 385 Total rushes



fun stat: when LSU has rushed 47 or more times this year, they have won all of those games.

only two losses had 36 rushes in each of them

If miles would just open his eyes and realize that mercifully ending a blowout means practicing screen passes, this stat wouldn't be so skewed.

Up more than 3 TD's over cupcakes usually turns into a rush-a-palooza.

This stat is a little surprising indeed; however, this is not an indictment on the coaching staff. We only pass when we have to due to our QBs being inconsistent. They will have to play better against OM and Bama to give us a chance to win (i.e., 60% completion on about 18 attempts, IMO).

BTW, you can't just look at passing attempts and say our passing game sucks. Of course, it needs to be better, but our passing offense has the potential to be effective as evidenced by our yards per attempt, which is really good. Even with as few attempts as we have, defenses are worried about Dural and Dupre getting behind them.