The shuffle continues atop the national rankings, and we have the rip-roaring Southeastern Conference to thank for the latest commotion.
The No. 1 LSU Tigers will be welcomed home tomorrow as a team newly housed somewhere towards the bottom of the top 10 after a blown lead and three overtimes led to a loss against 17th ranked Kentucky.
Kentucky QB Andre Woodson didn't continue the new attempts-without-an-interception streak, or anything else fabulous, but he was good enough to overcome an unimpressive performance by LSU and exact revenge for LSU's Bluegrass Miracle five years ago.
The game started off sluggish, with the two squads trading punts for most of the first quarter before Kentucky turned an awful shank from LSU (21 yards) into a 10-play, 49-yard drive to score the game's first touchdown. They looked like they just might build some momentum by stopping the Tigers, but LSU tailback Charles Scott busted out for a 55-yard run on the last play of the quarter, then snagged the last yard and a touchdown on the next play. The Tigers then put together a long field goal drive and turned an interception into a touchdown drive, and Kentucky needed a 51-yard pass to set up a touchdown that cut the Tigers lead to 17-14 at halftime.
Any momentum the Wildcats took into the locker room disappeared quickly, as LSU opened the second half with a mirror image of how they ended the first. They used a 42-yard return on the opening kick to set up a half-the-field touchdown drive, then intercepted Woodson a second time three plays later to create another field goal drive, and in two shakes, LSU had a 27-14 lead with three minutes left in the third quarter.
Unfortunately for the Tigers, their offense decided they had the game, and Kentucky's defense tightened up. Kentucky out-gained LSU 184-46 over the remaining 19 minutes and suddenly it was a 27-27 tie, as LSU's last-ditch 57-yard field goal attempt came up well shy.
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