Fun With Colors: Georgia calls for 'Red Out' vs. LSU

University of Georgia Coach Mark Richt plans to have fun with colors Saturday night when LSU comes to between the hedges. He wants fans to wear red.

"We are wearing red jerseys Saturday. To show the unity of the DawgNation I'm asking everyone to wear Red!" was the message delivered from @MarkRicht," per the AJC.

Richt has done thing before, if we all remember the famous 'blackout' game against Florida and Tim Tebow.

"I think it’s a good thing," he said. "We are wearing our red, our players are, and our fans traditionally wear red most of the time. I’d like to have it 100 percent. I think it’d be a great sign of unity for our Bulldog Nation. If everybody buys in and gets to the stadium and see that everybody’s bought in before we even kickoff, I think that just adds a little energy to the day. I’d really like to see that.”

Sanford Stadium, Athens, Georgia

Saturday, September 28, 3:30 PM (ET)

5 reasons why LSU beat Auburn, 35-17

OK, there has been much pontification about LSU's shellacking of Auburn Saturday night in Baton Rouge, but here 5 reasons why it went down:

THE RAIN: LSU jumped out to a 21-0 lead. Common sense says you don't need to put the ball in the air on a night where inclement weather is a factor. When you're behind the weather plays a huge role in what you can do, thus Auburn had to abandon much of their gameplan (mind you, they still had a 100-yard back), but the weather helped LSU tremendously because they scored early.

JEREMY HILL: Le'ts get the elepant out of the room and into the end zone. Hill, who finished with 184 yards on 25 carries,single-handedly won the game, actually in the first half. Auburn simply had no answer, until they put 10 in the box. Les Miles very much tried to get him 200 yards, but the ram-him-up-the-middle scheme can only work for so long.

THE CROWD: Again, the bad weather forecast turned many Auburn fans away from the game and made others leave early. LSU had a decided advantage, as it should, playing in Tiger Stadium that night.

AUBURN'S INEPT OFFENSE: Quarterback Nick Marshall went 6 of 16 and had two turnovers in the first half, dooming any fast start the Tigers had -- and they had a good one the very first time they touched the ball, driving into LSU territory before fumbling.

LSU's BIG PLAYS: Auburn made a game of it in the second half, and truth be told, should have been down by one touchdown with 10 minutes in the game -- Tre Mason had come to life by that time, rumbling past LSU defenders for huge chunks of yards on the way to a 132-yard night. But everytime Auburn scored, LSU's receivers made a big play of their own, keeping the Bayou Bengals ahead by more than  a score most of the night.

LSU outlasts Ole Miss, 41 -35

LSU outlasted Ole Miss 41-35 on Saturday in a scoring marathon between two unlikely offensive quarterbacks.

"I think everything we were doing was working," said Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace, who completed 15 of 34 passes for 310 yards and two touchdowns, despite three interceptions.
Jeremy Hill continued a dominant two months, leading the Tigers' ground game for the fifth straight week, as he carried the ball 20 times for 86 yards and three touchdowns.

Les Miles let his quarterback throw with abandon for the second straight game and it worked out.

"I'm proud of those men," Miles said of his team. "How easy it could of have been to say it was (Ole Miss') night. Spectacular group of men. You go find them, throw your arms around them and you give them a big kiss on the mouth, if you are a girl. Wow! What a game!"

"That was maybe the biggest momentum changer in the game," Miles said, adding giddily, "Is it Halloween night?"

The biggest play of the game was turned in by Odell Beckham on an 89-yard kickoff return.

"Everyone had their block, everyone had their man and everyone covered their assignments," Beckham said. "I saw a crease and I just hit it. ... It was an amazing experience and definitely changed the momentum."

2012: No. 6 LSU vs. No. 18 Texas A&M

LSU wins 24-19 against Johnny Football. Here is the complete game. This text

LSU pops Mississippi State Buldogs, 37 -1 7

Zach Mettenberger has finally showed the Tiger faithful what LSU coaches have been raving about the past three months as the Georgia native went 19-30 for 273 yards and two touchdowns in Saturday's 37-17 win over Mississippi State.

"He's at a hot streak right now. I think that's something Zach and the fans and really everybody have been waiting on all season," LSU center P.J. Lonergan said. "It's good to finally see him get in that rhythm."

Mettenberger's top target was Jarvis Landry, who finished with nine catches for 109 yards, including a 19-yard touchdown to help the Tigers (8-2, 4-2 SEC) beat the Bulldogs (7-3, 3-3).

Why the sudden explosive of offense for the Tigers???

"I think it is just everybody on the offense just maturing. We are really young in the receiving corps," Mettenberger said. "They are starting to know their assignments and are running better routes. That is all I can ask. If we can continue to keep clicking like this there are going to be big games for everybody like what Jarvis had tonight."

"Our passing game obviously is coming," LSU coach Les Miles said. "Zach is playing extremely well. He's got a nice touch on the ball. I think he knows where he needs to go. He's making quality decisions."

Oh, if we could get Bama again.

ALMOST - LSU 17 - BAMA 21

Moments after LSU's four point loss in the last minute to No. 1 Alabama, the Tigers' defensive leader told reporters the tale of the tape.
 “We let this get away,” LSU defensive end Sam Montgomery said. “We had tons of opportunities to maximize in the game. But we couldn’t put them away. Sometimes, it’s not the best team, but it’s the most disciplined team. It’s tough. It was slow death.”
 At least it seemed that way for Bama, which had mustered barely a pulse in the second half, until the unflappable AJ McCarron took the Crimson Tide 72 yards and lofted a screen pass that went for a 28-yard touchdown pass with 51 seconds left. The Tigers had blitzed on the play, sending the crowd of Tiger Stadium-record crowd of 93,374 into a hush.

LSU's much criticized quarterback finally played like LSU's coaches thought he could, finishing with nearly 300 yards and showing a dazzling display of nice throws. “The receivers and the rest of the offense have known what we were fully capable of all year,” Zach Mettenberger said.
 “We were finally clicking tonight. But as well as I played, I would trade 150 yards and three interceptions if we had won. It hurts; it definitely hurts.

Tigers beat Texas Aggies, 24-19

It wasn't pretty, but it was sweet.
The LSU defense bailed out the offense again, this time against the Aggies and the 12th Man as the Tigers won 24-19.
The Tigers defense forced five turnovers and scored 21 points off those, none bigger than a 47-yard scamper by true freshman Jeremy Hill, who finished with a career-high 127 yards in his first start.

Johnny Manziel aka Johnny Football torched the Tigers in the first half with a series of throws and runs that semeed to befudded the Tigers early.

A&M raced to a 12-0 lead in the first quarter and had several chances to add to it as the Aggies' defense forced punts on all of LSU's first-quarter drives. But then Manziel started to make mistakes, due to LSU making slight adjustments on the defensive end.

LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger, who played decent, said they had it all under control the whole while.

"There's really no reason to panic when you get down," Mettenberger said. "You just have to keep grinding away, keep focusing and keep believing. We did that and right before the half we got two quick possessions and two quick touchdowns."

"Defense just had to get their feet set and understand what was going on," LSU coach Les Miles said, "get the comfort of the scheme and the habit of throw and how to chase that quarterback. He's a gutsy, tough guy."

LSU goes into the bye week at 7-1 while the Aggies fell to 5-2.

LSU 6, Florida 14: Watch the second half (VIDEO)

In the Gators' 14-6 shocker on Saturday, Florida coach Will Muschamp knew he had to do to LSU what the Tigers did to everyone else: Pound the ball and control the clock.

But it was more than that to the Gator players.

"We wanted to hurt them," Florida defensive end Dominique Easley said. "We wanted them to feel the pain that we felt last year. We had hurt in our heart, so we wanted them to feel that same thing."

"They beat us down last year," Elam said. "We had to come back. We had something to prove. We had a plan to hit them in their mouth, and we executed."

Mike Gillislee ran rampant on the Tigers, finishing with a career-high 146 yards.

"I'll take Gilly over anybody," Muschamp said. "I tell him that all the time and I mean that. I felt that way in spring and going into fall camp. ... He's a Will Muschamp guy. He don't ever say anything, he just does his job, lines up, runs the ball. If you ask him to block, he's going to block. If you ask him to catch the ball, he's going to catch the ball. He just is a really, really, really good football player."

Hang this one on the hat: LSU 6 - Florida 14

Les Miles got outcoached by former LSU defensive coordinator Will Muschamp in a listless 14-6 loss to the rejuvenated Florida Gators in the Swamp on the first Saturday of October.
Tigers quarterback Zach Mettenberger has teased LSU fans with great throws and seasoned poise, but the cat's out of the bag -- dude can't get it done. Let me rephrase that, he needs ALOT of help to get it done, and Odell Beckham Jr. had the worse game of his career with at least two drops and a terrible fumble in the third quarter.
The game was won in the trenches as the Gators took advantage of an apparently fragile LSU linebacking corps and when two starters went down the Gators started chomping with misdirection plays, all runs. In fact, after teeing off on Gators quarterback Driskell, the LSU defense seemed dumbfounded at Florida's second half adjustments.
Miles had that befuddled look on the his, the same one hehd in the BCS title game against Bama. LSU's defense did what it was supposed to do, even handing Mettenberger and the offense a first and goal to close the first half. LSU's coaches didn't know what to do with it, though. Bottom line, Miles was outcoached.

LSU edges Auburn 12-10

It was a game of missed opportunities as LSU nipped Auburn 12-10 despite dominating the home team for most of the game. Auburn got its big break on a couple of miscues by LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger. It's clear now that Les Miles has lost his lust for creativity and imagination as LSU continued to run the ball on third and short and get stuffed.