Championship Week: Semifinal Rewatch Recap
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🗓️ 7 January 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
As Championship Week gets underway and LSU enters the final stages of preparation for Clemson, I wanted to go back and rewatch both semifinal games to see what I could learn.
I learned a lot.
Starting with LSU-Oklahoma and wrapping up with Clemson-Ohio State, here's a recap of my rewatch and some of the notes I took while watching both games. This one is light on guests (as in none) but heavy on numbers, and it's a statistically-loaded appetizer for the week to come.
Topics covered:
- Why LSU's defense is playing like the best unit in the country
- Freshmen finding niches
- Juniors coming into their own
- What LSU's offense did differently against Oklahoma
- Keys to attacking Clemson's defense
- Where Clemson's offense can be slowed down
Hope to be back with more episodes this week, so stay tuned.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Fighting Tigers |
| 0:11.8 | Fight all the way |
| 0:14.1 | Hey Fighten podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Hey Fighten Podcast, a championship |
| 0:20.1 | week edition of Hayfighting podcast. I'm championship week edition of Hayfighton podcast. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm Cody Wersham, Digital Meter Porter for LSU Athletics. |
| 0:26.0 | Coming to you with something a little bit different today. |
| 0:28.2 | It's Championship Week. |
| 0:29.7 | LSU and Clemson play a week from today on Monday for the National Championship. |
| 0:34.7 | And so what I decided to do was go back and rewatch LSU, Oklahoma, and |
| 0:39.5 | Clemson, Ohio State to get a better feel for both of those games. Obviously, the LSU |
| 0:45.5 | Oklahoma game I was covering from the press box, get a little bit different feel. Watching it on |
| 0:50.1 | tape and Clemson, Ohio State, I was working for the first half and maybe enjoying a beverage |
| 0:57.6 | or two for the second half to put it one way. So I wanted to go back and watch both those games |
| 1:03.1 | and see what I could learn ahead of this week and in the championship game. And I learned a lot. I've got |
| 1:07.8 | a lot of notes. I got a lot of stats. I got a lot of things that I want to get to that I think will serve as a good sort of appetizer opening course for |
| 1:17.7 | this week, which I plan to, by the way, just to do a little bit of housekeeping before we get |
| 1:22.6 | into the show. I plan to do a couple of episodes this week, maybe one or two more after this one, |
| 1:28.3 | and then obviously we'll come back after the game for a hurry-up, |
| 1:31.9 | hopefully a national championship winning hurry-up. |
| 1:35.1 | But before then, I want to try to get in as many episodes as I possibly can. |
| 1:39.0 | LSU is off from practice Monday and Tuesday. |
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