Southern Miss Golden Eagles vs LSU Tigers Match Player Stats On Oct 15, 2016

The Sports Xchange
Oct 15, 2016

BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU broke open a tie game with a 28-point explosion in the third quarter, including scoring passes of 80 and 63 yards by quarterback Danny Etling and runs of 61 and 20 yards by tailback Derrius Guice, to rout Southern Mississippi 45-10 Saturday night at Tiger Stadium.

LSU accounted for 235 total yards in the third quarter - 150 through the air and 85 on the ground - in its most productive period of the season.

Etling, who completed 11 of 18 passes for 276 yards and three scores, found speedy wide receiver D.J. Chark on a simple curl on the left hash. Chark pivoted and outraced the Southern Mississippi secondary for the score that put the Tigers up 31-10.

After the LSU linebacker Kendall Beckwith stopped running back George Payne on a fourth-and-1, Etling went deep on first down, finding wide receiver Malachi Dupre wide open down the middle for a 63-yard score to extend the LSU lead to 38-10. It was Dupre's first touchdown catch of the season.

Dupre added a 23-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter to make it 45-10.

After a sloppy 10-10 first half, LSU (4-2) came out of the locker room smoking. Guice, subbing once again for injured tailback Leonard Fournette, raced 61 yards untouched to make it 17-10.

After safety Jamal Adams forced and recovered a fumble by Payne at the Southern Mississippi 22, Guice made it 24-10 with a 20-yard run on a delay around left end. It was LSU's second TD in 2:32. Guice finished with 162 yards on 16 carries.

The teams played to a 10-10 tie in the first half, with Southern Mississippi using a 15-play, 8:02 opening drive to become the first team to score a first-quarter touchdown against LSU.

LSU kept that drive alive with two critical penalties - a third-down personal foul away from the ball on cornerback Donte Jackson and another third-down penalty for having 12 men on the field. Ito Smith gave Southern Mississippi a 7-0 lead with a 1-yard run in which his offensive line pushed the scrum over the goal-lone.

LSU tied it 7-7 on Chark's 19-yard run on a jet sweep around right end.

After Colby Delahoussaye gave the Tigers a 10-7 lead with a 38-yard field goal, Southern Miss answered with Parker Shaunfield's 37-yard kick, his 11th consecutive field goal without a miss this season.