Orgeron took out a week's worth of frustration on the defending national title runner-up

SI - "Mardi Gras got moved up, to a Saturday in October, and it got relocated, to a college football cathedral in Baton Rouge. The reason still flickered on this program’s giant videoboard well after the event’s conclusion: LSU 36, Georgia 16. The Tigers did to the nation’s second-ranked team what the Cajuns do to their famous gumbo roux: whipped ’em.

"Their fans celebrated by storming the field at Tiger Stadium for the first time in four years, parading around in a party fit for this state’s most popular holiday creation. “It was crazy,” says linebacker Michael Divinity, stuck in the purple-and-gold madness like so many LSU football players."

"The 12th-ranked Tigers, a touchdown underdog, toppled the Bulldogs in resounding fashion in front of a sold-out venue of more than 102,000, their first home win over a No. 1 or No. 2 ranked team since beating Steve Spurrier’s top-ranked Florida squad in 1997. They jumped out to a 16–0 lead and, when things got their tightest (UGA pulled within 19–9 late in the third quarter), they finished by scoring 17 fourth-quarter points."

"LSU out-classed Kirby Smart’s defense, running for 275 yards, ripping off runs of 59 and 47 yards and hitting passes of 50 and 37 more. Defensive coordinator Dave Aranda’s defense scrambled Georgia and quarterback Jake Fromm, holding the Bulldogs to 322 yards and picking off Fromm twice."


"The Tigers offense did it in stone-cold style: Their head coach, Ed Orgeron, decided to attempt four fourth-and-ones, and his team converted them all. “Pissed” at himself, he says, for passing on a fourth-down attempt late in a loss at Florida last week, Orgeron took out a week’s worth of frustration on the defending national title runner-up. “We were going for it as hard as we can. Throwing out the kitchen sink, man,” Orgeron said. “All week we talked about being aggressive.”



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