Daniels’ electric performance leads LSU past the Gators

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — – Jayden Daniels accounted for 6 touchdowns – a few passing and a few rushing – and LSU conquer Florida 45-35 Saturday evening at The Swamp for its fourth consecutive victory in the sequence.

Daniels finished with 349 passing yards – 115 of them to Kayshon Boutte – and 44 yards rushing. The Tigers (5-2, 3-1 Southeastern Conference) rebounded from a 27-level reduction to Tennessee a week before and matched their longest profitable streak against the Gators considering that 1977-80.

This 1, like so lots of of the new matchups in series record, came down to the last minutes. Trailing by a landing, Florida (4-3, 1-3) bought a scarce third-down prevent with a minimal a lot less than two minutes remaining. But freshman Damian Ramos kicked a 47-garden industry objective with 1:52 to enjoy to fundamentally seal the victory.

Anthony Richardson tried using to rally Florida, but his fourth-down move fell incomplete, and LSU ran out the clock from there.

Richardson performed turnover-free of charge football for the 1st time in six weeks, but the Gators wanted him to play defense to make a change in this a person. He opened the activity with a 51-garden landing pass and additional a highlight-reel, 81-lawn scoring run to get started the fourth quarter. On the other hand, the Gators were as well inconsistent in involving.

The Tigers experienced no this sort of challenges. They scored touchdowns on their to start with six belongings, without the need of any enable from a short industry. They rolled up 469 yards on all those drives, selecting aside Florida’s substantially-maligned protection, specially on 3rd down.

LSU moved the chains eight times in its very first 9 3rd-down attempts. The one miscue? Nicely, coach Brian Kelly’s offense converted on fourth down.

Florida finally forced a punt with about 13 minutes to engage in and adopted with an 80-property travel that finished with Trevor Etienne’s 1-property plunge. Trailing 42-35, the Gators looked like they had a sport-switching interception with a little fewer than six minutes to engage in. But Jason Marshall‘s decide on was negated by a roughing-the-passer penalty on teammate Gervon Dexter. Dexter drove Daniels to the ground and landed on leading of him following he launched the ball.

Richardson accomplished 15 of 25 passes for 185 yards and a TD to Justin Shorter on the second perform of the match. Richardson also ran for 109 yards and a score.

THE TAKEAWAY

LSU: That 40-13 drubbing by Tennessee at dwelling previous week appears to be like a good deal far better now, after the Volunteers upset No. 3 Alabama previously Saturday. The Tigers experienced several gaffes on exclusive teams in that a single and did the similar in opposition to Florida. They authorized a 47-lawn kickoff return to open up the match and muffed a punt in the next quarter. Each miscues set up touchdowns.

Florida: The Gators have dealt with defensive lapses all year but practically nothing rather like this. LSU’s 6 scores came on drives of 75, 73, 75, 83, 75 and 88 yards.

TOM PETTY Evening

Florida honored late music icon Tom Petty, a Gainesville indigenous, through the match as portion of the program’s inaugural “Tom Petty Day at The Swamp.” About a dozen of Petty’s family members customers were on hand in the north finish zone as the Gators performed “Won’t Back Down” between the 3rd and fourth quarters, a sport-day custom Florida began days after Petty’s loss of life in 2017.

LSU did not look to regard the moment. The Tigers’ band started off enjoying late in the rendition and drew boos from most of the 90,585 admirers in attendance.

UP Up coming

LSU: The Tigers start out a a few-game stretch in opposition to SEC West teams, commencing at residence versus No. 9 Ole Skip following Saturday.

Florida: The Gators get a bye 7 days right before dealing with top-rated Georgia in nearby Jacksonville.