TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Joe Burrow passed for 393 yards and three touchdowns and No. 2 Louisiana State ended an eight-game losing streak to No. 3 Alabama with a 46-41 victory Saturday.
The Tigers (9-0, 5-0 Southeastern Conference), the No. 1 team in the Associated Press poll, are no longer second fiddle in the SEC West, or maybe in the playoff rankings, after their fourth victory over a top-10 team this season. And Burrow stamped himself as the Heisman Trophy front-runner with a gutty performance when he answered every challenge from Bama.
And the challenges were plentiful. The Crimson Tide (8-1, 5-1, No. 2 AP) rallied from a 33-13 halftime deficit to three times to pull within a touchdown. It seemingly kept going from game over to game on.
The showdown lived up to its billing as a duel between two high-powered offenses and star quarterbacks with President Donald Trump attending. Tua Tagovailoa launched an 85-yard touchdown pass to DeVonta Smith with 1:21 left after the Tigers' own scoring march.
Justin Jefferson recovered the onside kick and LSU ran out the clock.
Burrow completed 31 of 39 passes and ran for 64 yards and was carried most of the way off the field by two teammates.
"He's one of the best we've had here," LSU coach Ed Orgeron said. "But we've still got four games left and we're going down the road, we're going to try to win every game and we're going to bring a championship back to Louisiana."
That's what Burrow sought when he transferred to LSU from Ohio State. "We're not done yet," the two-year starter said. "It's Game 9. We've got three more regular-season ones and the SEC championship. This was never our goal. We've got bigger goals than this."
