Some of you may have saw me roaming the sidelines along with our ABC 32 photographer James Koontz during Saturday's game.

Let me just say this, I hate watching the game from the press box. If you're on deadline, it's more practical to work up there, but to really get a feel for the game, you HAVE to be on the sideline.

From that viewpoint, here are some thoughts:

First of all, and this may be stating the obvious...but for those of you holding out hope out there...neither of these teams in a National Championship contender. Not even close. The offenses were abysmal. Defenses were just exceptional. The d-lines on both of these teams were stellar all game. Neither team can be legit though without a quarterback. Can you imagine if either of these teams had one of the Big 12 QBs!? That'd be something.

Really this one could have gone either way. LSU's passing game was just a bit better and that tipped the scales. I give them credit though...the crowd was incredibly loud the entire game. To win this type of game on the road is quite a feather.

As far as problems...I'm shocked Kodi Burns didn't see any time. So much for the conspiracy theories that the coaching staff was "saving him" somehow. He deserved to play in the game and it would have been interesting to see how LSU would have reacted with his ability to scramble. After the game though, Tommy Tuberville had very little to say about Burns. Basically, and I'm paraphrasing, he said that the opportunity for Kodi to play didn't present itself (in the fashion that they would have liked to play him...IF they really intended on playing him at all). Tuberville seems satisfied to stick it out with Chris Todd.

Speaking of Tuberville, he made a huge error during the game. Once LSU got into solid field goal range (probably the series prior to the one that they hit the game winner) he should have used his timeouts. I was mentioning this feverishly down on the sidelines. Conserve some time for your offense. Say there's 2:00 left on the clock when Auburn starts with the ball instead of 1:00. As an offensive coordinator, you can approach it completely differently. Tuberville said after the game that he thought about it, but basically danced around the question. To be fair though, it wasn't worth pushing him on. It didn't lose them the game, but I think it was detrimental. Ironically, and this has been forgotten since LSU won the game in the final second, the guy on the other sidelines made one of the worst clock management blunders I've ever seen in a big game - Les Miles, during last season.

We'll talk about some of this stuff during this week's episode of Inside the Tide and the Tigers. We also have some behind-the-scenes footage from College Gameday's visit. Kirk Herbstreit had some interesting things to say, so you'll want to check that out Friday night.

I don't have much to say about Alabama, other than the fact that I think Arkansas is that bad. The Hogs look like the worst team in the SEC. They are baaaaaad. Bama looked very strong (obviously), but I think they crushed a team that we didn't realize was THAT weak.