LSU Football Week One Recap

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LSU traveled up to Seattle for week one, which is the longest trip the Tiger football team has ever taken, and squeaked out a 31-23 victory over the Washington Huskies.

The Huskies, under new coach Steve Sarkisian, played their hearts out in front of a crowd of over 70,000, but did not have enough to take down the Tigers.

The first half was sluggish offensively for the Tigers, and the defense could not seem to tackle. However, Jacob Cutrera managed to deflect and intercept a Jake Locket pass, then return it for a touchdown, which gave LSU its first lead of the season.

The second half was a little better as Terrance Tolliver caught his second touchdown pass of the game, which gave LSU a 31-16 lead in the third quarter. Washington did score one more touchdown as time expired in the fourth for the 31-23 final.

As week two approaches, LSU has a lot to work on. First, they need to work on tackling—it was rough, especially in the first half.

Defense also needs to work on third downs; Washington was 11 of 19 on third-down conversions, several of which were 3rd-and-long.

The offense played fairly well, considering Jordan Jefferson is still an unproven quarterback.  Gary Crowten called the game very conservatively, but Jefferson executed what was called very well.

I expect to see Crowten open up the play book against Vandy this weekend, maybe even including meaningful snaps for both Russel Shepard and Rueben Randle.

Jefferson will throw the ball more this weekend and LSU will seem much improved against Vandy.

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