re: What was your honest first thought when you saw Burrow going off on UCF?

In 2018, the first game against Miami in Dallas, Tx. I knew we had a very, very good QB. The first game in 2019, I knew we had an offense that was different, not even close to anything ever run before, at LSU.
Look at the numbers against Ga. Southern.

LSU Box Scores

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I have a number of friends that played and coached at aTm, they all agreed we got screwed.

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This is an interesting item you pointed out and I know it derails the thread, but....

I've often wondered when watching the SEC blatantly fix games how players and coaches handle it. You know they know what is happening. The coaches know they get fined when they point it out. It has to be crushing for the players knowing they are risking injury in a rigged college game. Of course now many are well compensated, but still...

For example, I would love to know what players and coaches that were part of 2006 Auburn were saying during that game. Or any one of the many Bama games that were blatantly fixed (not just LSU but other teams as well).

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They wanted another rivalry game at the end of the season

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It is pretty obvious professional refs, especially NFL, do their best to "manufacture drama" during games.

SEC refs just flat out can't help themselves when it comes to being pretty obvious about what they are doing. Sometimes it is beyond hilarious to watch it go down.

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One of my friends coached at 4 SEC schools, talked at length about what transpired during that game.

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Well yeah, they basically changed a written rule to give them one extra play.....

Then they called a player down that obviously fumbled and LSU recovered but did not replay it. (aTm's TE caught a pass, ran two yards, was hit, fumbled and LSU recovered in the second or third OT. The aTm player knew he fumbled bc he pounded the ground and didn't want to get up....until the ref told him he bailed him out)
Then a BS PI, and another one I can't remember.

It was clear what the SEC was doing at the end of that game and they got the result they wanted.

I just remember thinking it's amazing were doing this playing DBs at WR. Or was it WRs at DB?

I forget but I remember us being shorthanded and coming off the A&M game we won like 3 times it made me feel frickin good about 2019. They surpassed my wildest dreams tho.

I started to get excited on 3rd and 17 but refused to give in to the hope that early.

At halftime in Alabama, I became a true believer, that unless something remarkably stupid and unlucky happened, we were going to win it all, and Burrow was going to win the Heisman. By the end of the game I just felt I had confirmation.

I was thinking, “Man, neither of these teams can defend the pass even a little bit.”

We had Neatherlh starting as I recall.

The same as i did for his first prctice when he and linebacker was going at it in the bull cicle

about time. we had the players to be really good in 2022 but he wasnt great in that pro style offense.

it finally came together against ucf ,I'd been expecting that type of performance by the end of the year

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3rd and 17

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