Game 3: LSU 44, Mid. Tenn. 0
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Three games into a college football season unusually spiced with upsets and close calls, the No. 2-ranked LSU Tigers had been largely impenetrable, unaffected by even the slightest adversity.
The trend continued with a 44-0 victory over Middle Tennessee at Tiger Stadium.
LSU played without its starting quarterback, its primary wide receiver and an offensive lineman on everybody’s preseason All-American lists.
New starters and new combinations produced the sparkling results.
Sophomore quarterback Ryan Perrilloux made his first start. The Tigers scored in every quarter but the fourth, dominating Middle Tennessee all over the field and the stat sheet.
Quotable
“When you play at LSU, just because you go on the field with 11, it doesn’t mean that the guys that are 12 and 13 and 14 behind you, that are waiting to get on the field, don’t have talent.”
LES MILES, LSU coach
Game ball
To LSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux, a sophomore who made his first career start in place of an injured Matt Flynn. Perrilloux was 20 of 25 passing for 298 yards with three touchdowns and an interception, and also gained 37 yards on eight rushing attempts.
Play of the game
With LSU leading 10-0 in the second quarter, Middle Tennessee was stopped on fourth-and-2 at the Tigers’ 37. The ball turned around to the LSU 38 statistically, from where Perrilloux went deep on a 62-yard touchdown pass to Demetrius Byrd with 9:47 left in the second quarter.
Game statistics
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