There is no logic to any of this.
LSU Vs. Florida: Miracle Finish Proves Les Miles’ Magic Is A Terrible, Beautiful Thing
Les Miles has two quarterbacks, and few think either is better than above-average. Les Miles had his special teams ace muff a punt that led to one Florida touchdown and had his special teams give up a touchdown return to a freshman.
Les Miles’ idea of a sane last-minute call is the fake field goal flip to the kicker, and it works despite the ball bouncing and staying as literally lateral as possible. Les Miles’ offensive coordinator can send in the same exact fade twice in a row and get the same coverage at the goal line.
Les Miles has more lives than nine cats combined, and his Bayou Bengals appear determined to use all of them and then some this year.
This, the place where a 33-29 win over Florida on the road seems like the only right outcome despite the unbelievable set of circumstances that produced it, is Xanadu and hell in one for LSU fans, I assume. It must be, trusting that your team will end up on the correct side of the ledger and yet knowing that there is no way to see it coming until the path reveals itself in retrospect. Tonight, that path had to do with Florida tackling like their predecessors in orange-clad futility, the early Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and it was more evident on the fake field goal than ever, as overpursuit and a failed shoestring tackle led to a first down run by a kicker.
Florida played a valiant game in sum, with the fairly clearly hurt John Brantley taking shots and firing passes all night, Urban Meyer engineering offense out of nothing with three quarterbacks taking snaps and rocket-fueled Jeff Demps cooling his jets with a foot injury. The defense struggled to tackle all night, but was always almost good enough.
But almost good enough against LSU is always too little to prevent a gruesome heart-wrenching loss.
LSU isn’t the best team in the SEC, and might not be the best team in the SEC West, but the Tigers get Auburn in two weeks and Alabama at home, and if this is the way the magic will work this year, why even dream of betting against them? Les Miles’ magic is a dark and gorgeous thing, the sort of stuff that cannot be understood and only glimpsed.
It’s chaos at its inscrutable best. And LSU fans just have to grit their teeth, week after week, and wonder how the coach they want to fire stays undefeated by pulling pages from scripts Hollywood would call ludicrous.
Les Miles has six wins and zero losses. That’s amazing.
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