One thing you can say about college football this year is there hasn’t been a shortage of good games. This weekend is no exception. #1 Florida travels to Baton Rouge to face #4 LSU.
All anyone is talking about right now is if Tim Tebow will play. I will only touch on this once, if Tebow plays Florida wins. If he doesn’t LSU has a good chance.
That said LSU has been pretty pitiful on offense this year. Two weeks ago they barely escaped a loss against Mississippi State. This past weekend they got lucky on an excessive celebration penalty from A.J. Green of Georgia. That setup a 33 yard run by Charles Scott for the win.
While they are averaging 135 yards a week on the ground they are only passing for 182 yards a week. They are only averaging 27 points a game on the year. The reason they have been able to win games with such an anemic offense is their defense. Watching the Georgia game last week I finally got to see this defense. I would say it is among the top 5 in the country. They are only allowing opponents 17 points a game through the first 5.
Florida on the other hand isn’t looking like the national championship teams of the past. They have only really had one tough test and it was against a team that should have tested them. They let Tennessee keep with them the whole game.
If we are judging this game on numbers alone Florida should stomp LSU into the ground on Saturday night. If they were playing in Gainesville I would go with that, but they are playing a night game at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge. The home crowd there gives their team a huge advantage.
This weekend unfortunately for Florida I don’t think Tebow plays and I think LSU wins despite only scoring 21 points.
I think my Tigers stand a pretty good chance, and it really has nothing to do if Tebow plays or not. If our coaches would pull their fingers outta their asses and start letting the QBs PLAY instead of always trying to run the ball, I think that all of the games earlier would have had higher scores than they did.
I am happy that the defense is pulling it together, cause I had my doubts for the Washington and Vanderbilt games.