The SEC schedule is starting to heat up and on Saturday the LSU Tigers will make the trek to Vaught-Hemingway Stadium to play against the Ole Miss Rebels and the game marks the last real challenge for Les Miles before playing Alabama and the game will start at 7:00 PM and is scheduled to air on ESPN2 and on the Watch ESPN website for streaming coverage.
The Tigers are coming into the game at 6-1 after previously losing to Georgia earlier in the season and now the team is coming off two straight victories since that loss, blowing out Mississippi State and winning against Florida at home last week. The team has an easy game against Furman next and then the team will have a break before playing against Alabama in what should be one of the most anticipated games of the entire season in all of college football. The team lost to Georgia after winning over Auburn and after playing Alabama later this season, they have Texas A&M and Arkansas to finish the schedule off.
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Zach Mettenberger is coming into the game for LSU playing some of his best football, as he has nearly 1,900 passing yards already this season with 15 touchdowns and he has been very accurate with the ball, hitting on over 66 percent of his passes with just two touchdowns. Mettenberger had a so-so game last week against Florida, but over the previous two games he passed over 300 yards each time and had five combined touchdown passes. The team is now 3-1 in the SEC and their best chance at making it to the conference championship or even the BCS national championship is to try and knock off the Crimson Tide in two games and that could be a tough task this season the way Nick Saban has his team playing.
LSU is coming into the game scoring just over 40 points per game and while the defense has not been as stout as in past years, they are only allowing 22 points per game, including the six points that they allowed last week against Florida. The team is averaging over 270 yards passing per game and Les Miles has been feeding the ball to running back Jeremy Hill, who has over 220 yards the past two weeks. He had 121 yards last week against Florida and scored two touchdowns against Mississippi while rushing for 157 yards. This season Hill has rushed for over 115 yards four times and he already has nine touchdowns this season.