'For 15 games, no single player has dominated a season the way Burrow did this year,' writes DanWolken
Just like he was against Texas, against Florida, against Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma, Burrow was better than anything the bluebloods could throw at him. It didn’t matter that he was once the third-stringer at Ohio State who never got a chance or the transfer at LSU who last season looked destined to be a middling SEC starter.
For 15 games, no single player has dominated a season the way Burrow did this year, marrying a relentlessly aggressive offensive system with a player who had the physical skill, the intelligence and the moxie to figure out everything that was thrown at him. And because Burrow was so accurate and so tough in every environment and under every circumstance, LSU attacked every possession like the end zone was its life force, as if failing to reach it as fast as possible would reveal its mortality.Like the rest of them, Clemson tried. Goodness, they tried.
For about a quarter, it looked like the best defensive coordinator in football might have solved him. Clemson’s Brent Venables was throwing odd fronts at Burrow, bringing pressure from different angles, lining up havoc-causer Isaiah Simmons all over the field and presenting a picture of chaos and confusion that was unlike anything Burrow had seen before.
But in the end, down 17-7 to Clemson and having punted on four of its first five possessions was as close as anyone would come this season to making LSU look ordinary. Because at that very moment, when LSU needed a score the most, everything special about this team began to show up.He adjusted to the pressure. He started finding the matchup that most favored his team, going after Clemson cornerback A.J. Terrell time and again because he simply could not cover Ja’Marr Chase.
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