I just wanted to post a few thoughts on tomorrow's game before I go to sleep. This game should be very exciting in my opinion. In spite of the 11 am cst kickoff time, I have a feeling the crowd will be raucous. I feel fairly certain that there will be plenty of Tiger fans crashing the midnight yell practice of the Aggies. That will could make for an interesting atmosphere before and during the game. Anyways, LSU will have to make some big plays early to take the home crowd out of it. In particular, the LSU DE's, Mingo and Montgomery, must maintain containment on Manziel. On top of that, I think Eric Reid must have a spectacular game like he did against South Carolina in order for LSU to contain the Aggie offense. I found a great article that sums up the approach to stopping the Aggie offense
here. When LSU is on offense, they will need to establish the run game much like the USC game last week. Also the receivers need to continue to catch passes and move the chains on third downs. Mettenberger had a much improved game last week and I would like to see him build on that.
Two hidden keys that I think will give great insight as to how this game will end up are: 1) if you see Les Miles with a play chart in his hands on the sideline and 2) the play calling on offense of the second series for LSU. If you see the first item and the second item seems to flow/feed off of the first series then LSU will cruise to a victory over TAMU. However, if you don't see number 1 then be warry. And if you don't see number 2 then it will be a long day for the Tigers.
I have a feeling we will see both of those things listed tomorrow and LSU will rack up another impressive performance stat wise, the scoreboard may not indicate that same. My prediction:
LSU 24 TAMU 17 (late td by TAMU makes it close)
