LSU does what it must in a cleansing romp over SLU

Early in the third quarter Saturday night, The Killers’ millennial anthem “Mr. Brightside” boomed out in high fidelity over what were by then mostly empty stands inside Tiger Stadium.

Death Valley — can we now say that this is THE Death Valley after Clemson’s moon crater of a 1-3 start? — was not sparsely occupied because of indifference or LSU’s lack of success. It was because Tiger Stadium’s eponymous occupants had just gone up 42-nil on willing but woefully outclassed Southeastern Louisiana.

While thousands of LSU fans were reaching for their car door handles across campus, Garrett Nussmeier was on the sideline reaching for his robe and slippers.

After three weeks of struggle and strife, aided and abetted by Nussmeier’s nagging if somewhat vague torso injury, the LSU offense was co