Leavitt and Harris Carry LSU past Auburn 38-17
By halftime this one was settled. LSU led 31-10 on the strength of five scoring plays in the first half, and the second half was mostly a formality. The final was 38-17, which flatters Auburn a little.
The tie lasted exactly one score. Scott Starzyk kicked a 30-yard field goal, Alex McPherson answered from 23, and then Sam Leavitt found Jackson Harris from 10 yards out to make it 10-3. LSU never trailed and never looked back. Trey'Dez Green caught a 15-yarder, Auburn's Byrum Brown pulled it to 17-10 with a one-yard run, and then Leavitt hit Harris again, this time for 70 yards, 24-10. Leavitt ran in a four-yarder with 17 seconds left in the half to make it 31-10. Nothing happened in the third quarter, and Dilin Jones added a 12-yard run early in the fourth.
The stat sheet explains the margin. LSU piled up 552 yards to Auburn's 275, with 387 of them through the air, and sacked the Auburn quarterbacks seven times against one allowed the other way. Neither team turned the ball over (zero giveaways each, which is rare enough to mention). Tristan Ti'a ran in a seven-yarder with 24 seconds left, which is the only reason the margin is 21 and not 28.
LSU moves to 6-2. Auburn drops to 4-3 and gets to think about seven sacks for a week.
Fantasy-wise, this was a Leavitt and Harris game. If you had either one, you had a good Saturday. If you had both, you had a very good one.