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Linebacker Harry Coleman, defensive backs Chad Jones and Patrick Peterson and wide receiver Brandon LaFell headlined the list of award winners at LSU's annual senior banquet held Sunday night at the Crowne Plaza.

LSU's Senior Day activities Saturday before the Tigers host Arkansas at 6 p.m. may take awhile.

Mississisppi's Shay Hodge scores against LSU on a halfback pass from Dexter McCluster to put the Rebels ahead 22-17 early in the fourth quarter Saturday in Oxford, Miss.

BATON ROUGE - It was one of the strangest things to happen in Tiger Stadium since Y.A. Tittle's pants fell off in that Ole Miss game on Nov.

LSU sophomore quarterback Jarrett Lee had a chance to soften his nightmarish 2008 season with a positive chapter Saturday.

Fourth quarter After holding the Bulldogs to four-and-out, LSU took over with good field position.

From most accounts, LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson made that interception cleanly and in bounds Saturday afternoon in Bryant-Denny Stadium.

DeAngelo Peterson 12 pass from Jordan Jefferson , 9:12. DRIVE: 13 plays, 91 yards, 6:11. KEY PLAYS: Peterson lights the fuse on the Tigers' best drive of the season when he snares a 28-yard pass from Jefferson to move the ball from the 6-yard-line to the 34 for some breathing room.

Peter Schrager is a frequent contributor for FOXSports.com. You can e-mail him at PeterSchrager@gmail.com . When you have a game featuring the two teams that have accounted for the last three BCS titles, have combined for more than a dozen NFL first-round draft picks this decade, and have played in some of the most thrilling nationally televised ...

Amid the uncertainty of who will start at quarterback for No. 1 Florida on Saturday night at Tiger Stadium, LSU football coach Les Miles said Wednesday the Tigers have the rest of the Gators to contend with as well.

4 in AP and coaches' polls. a Last week: Defeated Mississippi State 30-26 in Starkville.

Each week during the season, Chad Reuter and Rob Rang will analyze the biggest game of the week featuring NFL prospects as part of the weekly Draft Slant product from NFLDraftScout.com. Brandon LaFell has the size and speed to be an NFL star.

Behind No. 4 LSU 's 4-0 record and lofty ranking lies a running attack that limps into Athens to face No.

Rogelio V. Solis/The Associated Press Mississippi State quarterback Tyson Lee opted to keep the fourth down option up the middle, where he was stopped by LSUa s Chad Jones.

There were so many plots and subplots to LSU's 30-26 victory at Mississippi State on Saturday, it's understandable if some of the underlying themes got lost in the shuffle.

Eluding a safety blitz on 3rd and 1 from midfield, Mississippi State quarterback Tyson Lee hit tight end Marcus Green for a touchdown to cut LSU's lead to 23-21 with 6:33 left in the third quarter.

History, presumably quite familiar to the Louisiana-Lafayette football team, suggests a lopsided loss when it meets LSU Saturday night at 6:05 at Tiger Stadium.

LSU coach Les Miles did an impressive impression of "Horshack" after Saturday's game against Louisiana-Lafayette. In the popular comedy television show "Welcome Back Kotter," in the 1970s, the Arnold Horshack character would exclaim, "Ooh-ooh-oooh," when he knew the answer to a question by his high school teacher.

LSU senior safety Danny McCray helps senior wide receiver R.J. Jackson tackle Louisiana-Lafayette wide receiver Louis Lee on Saturday in LSUa s 31-3 win.

Five years ago, R.J. Jackson was a consensus Prep All-American coming out of Houston Westside High School.