LSU Buries McNeese 63-14 with 371 Rushing Yards
Nine touchdowns from seven different players, and 63 points before anyone could ask what the plan was. LSU beat McNeese 63-14, and the first 49 of those points came before McNeese had put a single one up.
The first-half script was simple. Dilin Jones scored from a yard out, Sam Leavitt found Roman Mothershed from a yard out, and Landen Clark made it 21-0 early in the second quarter. Then Leavitt hit Corey Barber Jr. twice, from 6 and 12 yards, and it was 35-0 at the break. Deuce Geralds and Harlem Berry added scores in the third for 49-0.
McNeese did answer, and quickly. Jamaal Levi caught a 43-yard touchdown pass from Brady Barrier at 4:48 of the third, then ripped off a 64-yard run less than two minutes later (1:16 of game clock, to be exact). That made it 49-14. LSU responded the only way it seemed to know, with two Stacy Gage runs of 46 and 39 yards in the fourth quarter. Gage had six carries for 110 yards, so 85 of them came on those two plays.
The team numbers are silly. LSU ran for 371 yards on 52 carries and threw for 364 more, 735 total. It also threw an interception and sacked the other side three times, which is the kind of footnote you get when everything else goes right. LSU moves to 4-1.
For fantasy, this was a week of spreading the wealth, which is lovely for the Tigers and annoying for anyone who wanted one back to own the box score. Barber was the surprise of the day, and Leavitt did his usual work without needing his biggest night.