LSU put the finishing touches on its first nine days of practice for the Capital One Bowl with a two-hour scrimmage here Tuesday at the Charles McClendon Practice Facility.The Tigers will now break for the next three days before heading to Orlando, Fla., on the morning of Dec. 26 to start their on-site preparation for the New Year’s Day contest against Penn State. LSU will have five practices and one walk-through in Orlando leading up to the contest against the Nittany Lions.
LSU and Penn State will meet at noon CST on Jan. 1 in the Capital One Bowl in what will be just the second meeting between the two programs. The game will be televised nationally by ABC.
“I like what we have accomplished during our nine days of practice,” LSU coach Les Miles said. “We have practiced hard and improved all phases of our team. We really did some things we needed to do to get better. I thought it was a productive nine days of practice.”
Tuesday’s scrimmage had Miles and the coaching staff putting the first and second units through 40 snaps each. The scrimmage was situational in nature as it had the Tigers focusing on different aspects of the game such as third-down, goalline, redzone and special teams.
“We got a lot accomplished,” Miles said of the scrimmage. “I’ll be the first one to tell you we aren’t ready to play a game today. I can tell you that we needed this (scrimmage), this simulation if you will, so that our coaching staff could take this film to Orlando and go right through it to look at the game plan, what we need to fix and what we need to square away.
“It will be a great piece for us and a great film to teach from.”
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