re: Post Evidence Regarding What Really Happened After MSST Went Up 34-10 Versus LSU

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If the game were played today, LSU would probably win.

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Riiiight. You obviously haven't been paying much attention to both teams.

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So think what you want, MSU's coaching staff wasn't playing backups....what you saw at the end is what should have been happening earlier in the game.

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That's absurd. Not only was MSU playing third stringers, they were playing prevent D and running conservative offensive plays for minimal yardage.

MSU had the ball at the LSU 12 with 5 minutes to play, and the score 34-16. One score would have put the game away. Mullen made a huge error at that point (which he admitted) and put in the entire second string offense with Dak at QB. Second string makes no sense, and leaving Dak into play with the second string makes even less sense. They turned to ball over on downs.

Harris came in at QB, and State used a combination of 2nd and 3rd string players to play prevent defense. Very badly. Harris lead LSU to another TD, failed on the 2 point try, and the score was 34-22.

On MSU's next possession, Mullen again put in a collection of subs with Dak at QB. Muniz was at center. Muniz is a Senior who almost never plays. He plays on special teams, and sometimes gets in at the end of big blowouts. He snapped the ball over Dak's head and LSU recovered.

For the next defensive possession, MSU went back to its regular rotation of defensive players, but they were still playing prevent...3 man rush, 8 men back....and they still played it very poorly and gave up a quick TD. 34-29.

After recovering the onside kick attempt, MSU put the first string offense back in. But, they just ran 3 ultra conservative plays and had to punt, which set up LSU's final attempt at a comeback.