BATON ROUGE, La - Josh Williams achieved two rushing touchdowns, and Garrett Nussemeier threw for 332 yards, leading LSU to a 24-17 victory over Vanderbilt on Saturday night at Tiger Stadium.
The Tigers (7-4, 4-3 SEC) broke a three-game losing streak, their longest since the 2021 season.
“There was a lot of noise about LSU football and the early criticisms during this program’s development,” said LSU head coach Brian Kelly. “The players didn’t pay attention to it, the coaches didn’t pay attention to it, and I’m proud of them. The players took full responsibility for what they wanted to achieve and accomplished it.”
LSU, leading 14-10 at halftime, saw its advantage shrink to 14-10 after Brock Taylor kicked a 47-yard field goal on the Commodores' initial drive of the third quarter.
In what was arguably its most critical drive of the game, the heavily criticized Tigers offense, which had only scored 29 points over the past two weeks, executed an impressive 77-yard, 10-play scoring drive, culminating in a Nussmeier 12-yard touchdown pass to Kyren Lacy, extending the lead to 21-10. The key play of the drive was a 24-yard pass from Nussemeier to C.J. Daniels on a fourth down within Vanderbilt territory.
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