LSU At Auburn

For the third game in a row, I'm having to watch LSU play on ESPN360. They are playing in their SEC opener against Auburn. I'm not too confident about this game, due to the quarterback situation. Now, if it were last year, with Matt Flynn starting and Ryan Perrilloux as the backup, yeah, but this is a new year.

LSU is playing alternating QBs. Sophomore Andrew Hatch, who transferred in from Harvard and Freshman Jarrett Lee. Andrew Hatch is, to me, the better quarterback. He's done a lot better in this game, but it's midway through the third quarter and Andrew Hatch has just absolutely gotten his bell rung. He got up staggering and disoriented, with his eyes rolling back in his head. He's out for the rest of the game.

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UPDATE: After Hatch got knocked out of the game, I pretty much gave it up for lost. I should know better. It is LSU after all.

Jarrett Lee came out after a pretty lousy first half--including giving up one interception for a touchdown-- and played like a completely different quarterback.

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He led the Tigers--er the LSU Tigers--back from a 14-3 deficit at the half to win 26-21 in another nailbiter typical of LSU games. They scored the final touchdown of the game, but then gave the ball back to an Auburn team which had 58 seconds on the clock and all three time outs remaining. A fifteen yard penalty by LSU seemed to give Auburn life, but a sack for a 15 yard loss on the very next play followed by two incomplete passes took that hope away. It was fourth and 25. Auburn had one shot, and only one shot left. Quarterback Chris Todd took the snap, dropped back and completed the pass, but was still well shy of the first down.

That was the ball game. And Andrew Hatch still looked like he wasn't quite sure where he was.

Welcome to the SEC, Ivy League.

In other news, U of Texas easily dispatched the Rice Owls 52-10. Gratuitous Colt McCoy photo:

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And the Skies were not cloudy all day, just most of it.

Cody found out what happens when you put Mentos in Diet Coke:


I got new yarn in the mail:

This is Gloss Lace in Mermaid. This is the yarn I've been waiting on for forever. I'm going to do the Mystic Waters lace shawl with this.

This is Shimmer in Cumulus. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this one, but I've got some ideas, if I can just find a pattern.

That's about it for this Saturday.