We have advanced to Week 7. No user games, Washington and Georgia have byes. Current rankings have LSU #1, FSU #2, Oregon #5, Georgia #6, and Notre Dame #7
Pengy, you'll finish no better than 3rd.
LSU holds on to beat Notre Dame, 24-21. Scoreless after the first quarter thanks to two big defensive plays ending scoring drives (a sack for ND's defense and a violent big hit forcing a fumble for LSU's, both in scoring range), Notre Dame hit a 49 yd bomb down the sideline to take a 7-0 lead, and LSU answered right back two plays later with a 73 yd touchdown run by Karl Bush on a shotgun HB draw. LSU was in scoring range to end the half, but tried to center the ball for a FG at the end and ran out of time, ending it 7-7.
LSU got the ball to start the third quarter, and against responded with the big play, as Robert Stevenson took a read option keeper 72 yds to the one inch line. It was the first read option of the game, as LSU was hoping to save it to run at key moments and lull ND to sleep by not using it at all the first half. Bush took it in on the next play to make it 14-7. The wet conditions kept making ND wideouts fall down and it was ending drives, as it did their next one; LSU responded by hitting a 41 yd pass play (btw, one of the stupidest diving catch animations either of us have ever seen, it's not anywhere near physically possible for him to have made this catch w/o going out of bounds) to a diving Avery Johnson on a deep fade. A few plays later, WR Corey Swain took a sweep out of the Wildcat and cut up the middle for a 5 yd touchdown to make it 21-7. LSU got a pick on the next ND drive, and turned that into a 41 yd FG, which would prove crucial.
ND got it back with 4 minutes to go, and Gunner Kiel went into beast mode, as he drove the Irish down the field, going 80 yds on 5 plays for the touchdown to make it 24-14. LSU recovered the onside, and was able to run a little clock, but their third down completion was caught at the marker before the WR came back over and gave up the first down. LSU's punter shanked the punt and ND took over at their 28. Kiel again drove them down, and threw a 17 yd touchdown with 1:28 to go. LSU was able to recover the onside again, and ran the clock down to one second. They punted the ball into the endzone and ND's returner was unable to catch it before it hit the ground, ending the game.
GG Oracle, and once again I hope we get a game where EA doesn't stick their noses in
S14: N Texas 7-1
S15: Wake 8-5
S16-21: Washington 9-4, 10-3, 8-5, 9-4, 7-6, 6-7
S22: Ohio 8-5
S23: ECU 12-2
S24-26: Kentucky 8-5, 5-7, 5-7
Career: 102-61
