If anyone remembered what happened two weeks ago against Southeastern, many LSU (4-0, 1-0 SEC) fans wound up seeing a similar ballgame with the Tigers letting Louisiana Tech (2-1) back in the ballgame in the second half, but were able to slam the door shut to come away with a 38-21 win in front of a sold out crowd at Tiger Stadium.
LSU struck early and often with LSU getting on the board when Nick Brossette scored from one-yard out after Ja’Marr Chase stepped out of bounds on the previous play.
Late in the first quarter, Devin White seemingly had a scoop-and-score, but wound up steeping out of bounds at almost the same spot. It wasn’t anything to worry about though since Brossette started off the second quarter with another one-yard run into the endzone.
After a Cole Tracy field goal made it 17-0, Ed Paris picked off J’Mar Smith to set up a 28-yard touchdown run from Clyde Edwards-Helaire to make it 24-0 within 55 seconds of game time. The Bulldogs finally got on the board when Smith connected with Adrian Hardy from 20 yards out to make it 24-7 and it remained that way headed to halftime.
Once the second half started, the Bulldogs started to rise back from the dead, going on a 13-play drive that went 75 yards and was capped off by Smith completing a one-yard pass to Bobby Holly to make it 24-14. Louisiana Tech made it a three-point ballgame to start the fourth quarter with a seven-play drive capped off by a 42-yard pass to Hardy.
However, that was as close as the ballgame got with the Tigers scoring on the next two drives with a pair of touchdowns from Brossette and Helaire, respectively to put the game out of reach.
LSU will return to action on Saturday when they host the Ole Miss Rebels (3-1, 0-1 SEC) with kickoff set for 8:15 pm.
-Clint Domingue