That 2003 team UF was bi-polar. Your only loss, but they lost to Mississippi that season. They play a 10 win Florida State team in a very close game only to get blown out in their bowl game versus Iowa. Florida loses to Tennessee that season. The same Vol team that UofSC took to OT—and the Gamecocks only had two wins that season in conference play. The same UofSC team LSU slaughtered. Of course, when I think about it, that was pretty much the Florida era under Zook—fielding bi-polar teams. BTW, looking over the recaps of that game I'm leaning towards the turnovers killing LSU. On all three, LSU was in Florida territory. Two INT's at the 40 and 41 and a fumble on the 31. Two of those on 1st down, one on second and 12, so the offense wasn't in a 3rd and long situation taking a risk.
Florida 2003 was an 8-5 team. LSU had them at home, and Saban's team did not come to play at all. They were poorly prepared & committed 13 penalties for 99 yards.
The penalties hurt that game. By the looks of it their heads weren't in the game. Several back to back holding calls, false starts in the same drive, etc. Holding calls, false starts, roughing the passer penalties and the like? Is that poor preparation or poor execution? If one team just runs over another in one aspect of the game, that falls into poor preparation in my eyes. When you have pass interference calls, kicks out of bounds, and the other penalties mentioned above that falls more into poor execution. I've seen a lot of teams lose games due to not "having their heads in the right place." Personally, I don't lay that all on the coaching staff's feet.
If I'm not mistaken I believe the following year in Florida we committed 5 turnovers and still won because Joe Addai just couldn't be stopped. Jamarcus never played good against Auburn or Florida.
LSU 2013 Champs 14-0.. Les Miles gets coach of the year -- Again. Mett throws for 3K + yards. Blue & Hill rush for 1,500 The "freak" shows up..
