Auburn Vs. LSU: Tied Up At The Half, 10-10

After yet another team displays inexplicable willingness to kick to Patrick Peterson, he returns the ball 26 yards and LSU sets up shop at their own 36. Jarrett Lee enters the game at QB for the Tigers, and connects with Rueben Randle on his first pass attempt for nine yards. Stevan Ridley converts on second down with his feet, and Lee connects with Randle again for eight more yards. Another short run, and Lee completes a seven-yard pass to Terrence Toliver. It's all very nice and rhythmic, until the next set of downs, where one pass goes for a one-yard loss, a second pass goes incomplete, and Lee is sacked by Auburn terrors Nick Fairley and Josh Bynes on 3rd-and-11.

Auburn finds some long rhythm of its own, taking over five minutes off the clock with a Newton-heavy drive. They're finally slowed down halfway into LSU territory, where two short Newton runs and an incomplete pass are followed by a rare miss from Wes Byrum, from 39 yards out.

2:51 remain in the half, and time is running down. LSU takes over at their own 22, and on their second set of downs Jarrett Lee is hit by Nick Fairley in the backfield and leaves the game holding his right wrist. Jordan Jefferson is himself sacked by Fairley almost immediately. The drive continues, however, and at its culmination, we have our by-now traditional LSU clock-wranglin' stampede: Jordan Jefferson rushes for a touchdown on a play where it appears the play clock may have wound down before the ball was snapped. The score is allowed, and the half ends nineteen seconds later.

At the end of the first half, LSU and Auburn are tied on the Plains, 10-10.