BATON ROUGE, La. -- Welcome back, Leonard Fournette.
If anyone had forgotten the identity of the nation’s best running back while LSU’s star junior sat out for nearly a month with an ankle injury, Fournette quickly reminded them with 284 rushing yards and three touchdowns in Saturday’s 38-21 victory over Ole Miss.
Thanks to touchdown runs of 59, 76 and 78 yards, Fournette had already broken LSU’s single-game rushing record of 250 yards a few minutes into the third quarter. He needed all of eight carries to get there.
Then he set his sights on the SEC record book.