Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - The Lafourche Gazette

LSU hungry for redemption
in rematch with Alabama
JOHN ZENOR
AP Sports Writer
USCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -
SU will be seeking reemption
in the latest
olossal clash with fellow
EC West power Alabama.
Sure, there’s the stanard
matter of national and
outheastern Conference
itle prospects. The loser,
fter all, can’t count on a
ematch in Miami for a dover
like the top-ranked
rimson Tide got last seaon.
The fifth-ranked Tigers
ay they are taking even
ore motivation from that
1-0 BCS championship
hutout in January when
labama comes calling Satrday
night with the stakes
t their usual heights.
“There are a lot of scars
from that national championship
game,” LSU defensive
tackle Bennie Logan
said. “You will see it on the
field. The loss in the national
championship game
had a big impact on us.
Going into last season, we
had set goals like winning
the national championship.
Bama took that from us.
They took that national
championship ring. We
want to show the world
that we have bounced back
from that loss.”
Chances are the world
will be watching, or at least
a sizable chunk of college
football fans. Last year’s
initial 1 vs. 2 matchup
brought CBS its highest
ratings for a college football
game since Notre Dame-
Miami in 1989. The network
will air it in primetime
instead of its normal afternoon
slot after working out
a deal with ESPN.
It’s not drawing “Game
of the Century” billing like
the meeting 363 days before,
which LSU defensive
end Barkevious Mingo
called “one of the fiercest
games I’ve played in.”
Game of the year is certainly
possible.
That 9-6 overtime loss
ast season cost Alabama
8-0, 5-0) the SEC West,
nd maybe SEC title if not
he biggest prize.
Even the Tide is manuacturing
a little redempion
storyline for Round 3.
“LSU is the SEC chamionship
team or whatever,
nd not us, we’re just the
ational championship
eam,” Alabama wide reeiver
Kevin Norwood said
n Monday. “And that’s one
f our goals, to be the SEC
hampionship team.”
“To me, I like to fulfill
ll my goals, and that’s one
e didn’t, so it’s motivation
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Mostly, Alabama players
insist they’re not getting
caught up in the hype and
they’re treating it as just
another game, etc.
Clearly, it’s not, however.
The teams have a
combined three losses the
past two seasons, and two
of them were head-to-head.
Tide coach Nick Saban
said his players got a little
too amped up by all the
hype before last season’s
regular season meeting
when both teams had an
open date to let the emotions
simmer. It’s not his
preferred recipe.
“When you play in
games like this, everybody
would say it’s really critical
you play your best in a
game like this,” Saban said.
“But the formula and the
recipe for what that is doesn’t
really change. Even
though you’d like to change
it, and put a little more
sugar in the cake to make
it taste better, it usually
makes it taste worse.
“We have to stay with
the formula that helps our
players take care of business
the best way they
can.”
Both teams employ
similar formulas: Stout defense
and strong running
games and quarterbacks
who try to avoid mistakes.
The Tigers have been
more tested. This is their
fourth straight game
against a ranked team,
starting with a loss at No. 8
Florida.
Alabama is coming off
its only victory over a team
currently in the Top 25, 38-
7 over No. 17 Mississippi
State
It just so happens LSU
was off last weekend, so
coach Les Miles got to
watch that game from start
to finish. He came away impressed.
“I watched every snap
of the Alabama-Mississippi
State game Saturday,”
Miles said. “It looked just
as bad on the coach’s copy.
That Alabama team is
pretty good. They look like
the No. 1 team in the country.
Coach Saban has done
a great job there. Their
team is deserving to be the
No. 1 team in the country. I
look forward to playing that
team.
“We need to play for
ourselves. We need to play
better because we didn’t in
January.”
Players from both sides
used the word “hate” to describe
feelings among the
fans, especially in Baton
Rouge.
“I’m pretty sure they
hate us because of what
happened last year and
stuff like that,” Norwood
said.
LSU linebacker Kevin
Minter, who is from Georgia,
said he was surprised
by how much “people hate
Bama down here.”
“Being around the students
and the fans, there is
real genuine hate,” Minter
said. “All the fans worry
about is us winning that
game.”
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press
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