KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- After LSU's offense slogged through its usual first half misfirings against 16-point underdog Tennessee, a team winless in the SEC being guided by an interim coach playing before a sparse home crowd enamored speculating who the next coach might be, the only thing that snapped the Tigers out of their fog was the mother of all wakeup calls.
Nothing like a cold shower, a stinging rainstorm driven by sizeable wind gusts, to get LSU's blood pumping.
Once Mother Nature's handiwork blew into Neyland Stadium just before LSU's Cameron Gamble's second half kickoff disappeared into the sideway sheets of Forest Gump-ish "big 'ol fat rain," the Tigers were good to go.