One of the words thrown out a lot in the wake of LSU’s defeat to UCLA was “embarrassing,” and while I understand that fans were disappointed by the performance, perhaps we need to dial back that rhetoric a little bit.
Because upon looking at the cold, hard numbers of the game, it’s not nearly the disaster we’ve been lead to believe. Now, UCLA won, and it wasn’t a fluke in any way, shape, or form, but it also wasn’t an embarrassing beatdown. This game was still in contest going into the fourth quarter, when the wheels came off.