Les Miles Not Happy with SEC Officials

We thought LSU week was over when Florida boarded the buses and left Tiger stadium with a 13-3 win. Les Miles, however, is still thinking about one play from last week – Tim Tebow’s 24-yard touchdown pass to Riley Cooper.

Miles sent the videotape of that play to the SEC this week for review, telling reporters, “Yeah, we sent that in. I’m savoring the opportunity to call in there.”

So Miles is angry that the officials missed the jersey tug? Apparently the LSU coaching staff missed it as well. Cornerback Chris Hawkins was benched for the rest of the game after giving up the touchdown to Cooper.

“What we saw from the sideline, we did not see,” Miles told the AP. “He just got yanked on, and there are no corners that I know that sustain that and don’t give up position on the ball.”

The call was clearly blown, as CBS showed the replay over and over – Cooper grabbed the jersey. Gators fans thought it was smart, while Tiger fans are thinking the game could have turned out differently.

Take away the touchdown and Florida may end up kicking another field goal. Say they don’t score. Nothing LSU was doing indicated they would march down the field and ever score again.

Bottom line…the defense of Florida was the real difference maker on Saturday night. Brandon Spikes and the rest of the defense shut down LSU for all four quarters.

Miles still thinks LSU could win the game, if the two should meet up down the road in the SEC Championship.

“The thing that we have to see is that adjustments have to be made certainly, and our team plays a little bit better,” he said. “If we do what we’re capable, it’d be just wonderful to see that team again.”

I have news for you Mr. Miles. If the Gators do what they’re capable of doing, and have a truly healthy Tim Tebow, seeing that Gator team in Atlanta would be more of a nightmare than anything you could imagine as “wonderful.”

Florida Gators Good to Geaux

The highly anticipated showdown of the Florida Gators and the LSU Tigers was finally played out last night in the Bayou.  Leading up to game time the questions centered Tim Tebow and his status of whether he would play or not.  Tim was finally cleared Saturday morning and Urban had stated all week that if he was cleared he would play.

“I tried to play smart,” Tebow said. “I told him, I said, when we were talking to Coach [Urban] Meyer, I said, ‘I’m not going to go out there and play tentative or scared. That’s not me.

“I did try to play smart but I wasn’t scared or timid at all.”

The Gators defense was the talk of the town last night.  The Tiger offense just couldn’t find their way into the endzone as most teams have found out that have played Florida. The game started off with quite a few penalties for LSU on defense.  LSU’s offense was almost non existent and they  were able to get in scoring range off of two Florida 15 yard penalties.

At one point in the game we went for it on 4th and 2 when we were clearly in FG range when the game was still 3 – 0.  I’m not sure I agree with this call.  You’re in a battle of field position and you are able to put points on the board, I think you have to take them. This would have made it much easier to continue to run the ball later in the game rather than have Tim Tebow throw an INT late in the game that luckily didn’t come back to haunt us.

The score 13 – 3 wasn’t the most impressive score but Florida dominated the game the entire time.  Florida continues its streak of not trailing since December in the 2008 SEC Championship game against Alabama.  The game may have not went exactly to plan but Florida came out with the “W” and moves on through it’s conference schedule playing Arkansas next.