More penalty yards than passing yards.
LSU completed that rare feat last Saturday at Texas A&M with 13 penalties for 102 yards, further reinforcing a season-long issue with the yellow laundry.
The Tigers have been penalized 8.5 penalties per game for an average of 64.9 yards in 2012. Those totals rank 113th and 90th, respectively, in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision this season.
The flags aren’t a new sight for LSU under coach Les Miles.
During LSU’s 2007 national championship run, the Tigers were penalized 117 times, finishing 117th — or third to last — in Division I-A.
The low rankings are the norm, with LSU placing 83rd in penalties committed and 67th in penalty yardage on average in Miles’ tenure.
Under Miles, LSU has never finished in the top half of the FBS in penalties.
This season’s penalty plague has still reached the extreme end of the recent spectrum.
The 13 flags against the Aggies marked LSU’s most since committing 14 at Alabama in November 2007 and was the second-highest total of Miles’ eight seasons in Baton Rouge.
With the current 64.9 yards per game average, LSU is on pace to accrue its most penalty yards since 2005, Miles’ first year.
