re: Let's Say Dallas Turner is Booted for Targeting

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No LSU does not win. The game flipped when JD hit Taylor right around the sticks on that 2nd and 12, which was after a snap infraction by our center (he had 3). On the next play, JD broke a 30 yard scramble, a flag came out (the only holding call on a a scramble all night), LSU punted and Bama scored to make it 35-28, tip pass INT and Bama gets it to 42-28 that is ball game.

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A little backwards on that. The play after the holding call on Blackwell which wiped out the thirty yard run (and was definitely holding like 20 or so other plays that night), was the 2nd and 17 where Taylor dropped the perfectly thrown football. Without question one of the two biggest plays of the evening (the other being the tipped ball that resulted in the pick). Once Bama went up two scores it was absolutely over. The targeting call which should have been made, while frustrating, was not in any way why LSU lost the game.