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What? You thought the Game of the Century would feature 100 points?
Admittedly, most of us assumed there would at least be a few touchdowns. Just one would have been nice. But for anyone who found No. 1 LSU's 9-6 overtime victory over No. 2 Alabama on Saturday to be ugly, unsatisfying or somehow unimpressive, Tigers defensive end Sam Montgomery has a message for you.
"This is the way football is supposed to be played," said the man whose third-down sack of Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron in the first overtime possession typified a night of defensive dominance. "It's not about running up the score. This is how two great teams in a great atmosphere are supposed to play."
It was far from an all-time classic, but the sport's lowest-scoring 1 vs. 2 game since 1946 proved one thing with absolute certainty: LSU is indeed the nation's top team.