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Mistakes Overshadow Playmaking in Debut of New-Look Tigers

Football was back in Tiger Stadium on Saturday, for better and for worse.

Restricted capacity. A new quarterback. Youth on both sides of the ball. And a game day atmosphere that felt anything but normal.

If the game and the occasion looked like something you've never seen before, it's probably because you haven't. LSU's 44-34 defeat to Mississippi State was, like the year it falls in, something impossible to foresee. At the same time, it pointed out the obvious – the things that need fixing, and the things that still work.

LSU's offense had equal parts both.