No. 11 Alabama’s possibilities of making the School Soccer Playoff are very a lot alive after a 42-13 win over No. 15 LSU on Saturday night time.
Jalen Milroe rushed for 4 touchdowns because the LSU protection struggled towards a operating quarterback for the second straight recreation. Milroe opened the sport with a 39-yard TD after which broke the sport large open within the fourth quarter with a 72-yard run.
Two weeks in the past, the LSU protection was caught utterly off-guard by Texas A&M’s second-half quarterback change. Marcel Reed changed Conner Weigman because the Aggies scored TD drives on Reed’s first 4 possessions. Reed scored three of them himself on quarterback runs because the Aggies rushed for 242 yards.
Alabama clearly wished to check the LSU protection once more. Milroe’s potential to make magic occur along with his velocity and escapability is a giant a part of the Alabama offense, and LSU had a tough time stopping the designed QB runs.
Milroe completed the sport with 185 speeding yards on simply 12 carries. He was capable of watch the ultimate minutes from the bench due to the Crimson Tide’s massive lead.
The loss is LSU’s third of the season and assuredly removes the Tigers from playoff rivalry. LSU opened the season with a loss to USC — a defeat that appears worse with each Trojans loss — and has an awesome probability to win out. However a 9-3 season might be not going to be adequate to get to the expanded postseason regardless.
Because the LSU protection couldn’t cease the run, the offense wasn’t explosive both. QB Garrett Nussmeier struggled on a wet night time in Baton Rouge with two interceptions. Nussmeier’s first decide got here on the primary drive of the second half as Alabama led 21-6.
The Tigers drove all the best way to Alabama’s 4-yard line, however Nussmeier’s move on second down was intercepted by Deontae Lawson on the objective line. It was the second journey contained in the Alabama 10-yard line for the Tigers and the second time they failed to attain a landing. Within the first half, LSU needed to kick a area objective after attending to the Alabama 6.
Is Milroe again within the Heisman dialog?
There are 4 clear favorites for the Heisman by means of the primary 11 weeks of the season in Colorado’s Travis Hunter, Oregon’s Dillon Gabriel, Miami’s Cam Ward and Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty. However Milroe has put himself again within the dialog along with his efficiency on Saturday night time and Alabama’s possibilities of successful the SEC.
It’s a logjam on the high of the convention, however the Crimson Tide are nonetheless alive for the SEC title recreation. And Milroe has stats that stack up effectively. He has 16 speeding touchdowns and has thrown 13 passing TDs. Solely two gamers — Ward and North Texas’ Chandler Morris — are accountable for greater than 30 TDs this season.
It’s unlikely that Milroe can be lifting the Heisman Trophy on the finish of the season. However don’t write him off as a Heisman finalist.
