Closer than it should have been
Say it with me: I do not believe in moral victories, so I therefore do not believe in moral losses. This was an ugly game that had no business being close, but LSU kept committing penalties and failing to put forth full effort.
LSU thought they could just show up and win. Thanks to the existence of Leonard Fournette, that's a pretty safe assumption, but you don't want to see a team test the limits of that theory like LSU did today. And give credit to a Syracuse team that played their guts out for a full 60.