If there were ever a chance to improve the rushing offense, Saturday was it.

LSU was missing its leading rusher, but lesser teams had gashed Ole Miss before. Kentucky. Arkansas. Tulane. Those three teams all lost to the No. 13 Rebels, but they each ran for at least 170 yards against their defense, which entered a Week 5 clash with the No. 4 Tigers as, statistically, the worst group of run stoppers in the SEC.

Then they faced LSU, which mustered only 57 yards on 22 carries in its 24-19 loss . Garrett Nussmeier didn't complete enough passes, but he didn’t get much help from his ground game, which is struggling mightily.

“I think you start with the first half,” LSU coach Brian Kelly said, “where our inability to sustain anything on the offensive side of the ball put our defense on t

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