LSU coach Les Miles has heard the stat all week — LSU has not won at Jordan-Hare Stadium in 10 years.But with three days to go before No. 6 LSU’s matchup with No. 9 Auburn, Miles is still dumbfounded as to why the rivalry is dominated by the home team.”I don’t know [why],” Miles said. “I think generally speaking the team that wins is the best team. We’ll try to be the best team this weekend . . . But [in 2006], I thought we were a pretty good team then too, so sometimes the best team doesn’t win.” Since 2000, Auburn has outscored LSU, 82-36, in games at Jordan-Hare Stadium, including a 7-3 Auburn win in 2006. Miles said for LSU to break that drought, they will need to rely on the nation’s No. 11 running game, which has gained 214 yards per game for LSU this season.”We’ll establish the run,” Miles said. “We’ll use our backs. You’ll see Charles, and you’ll see the other backs as well.”Saturday’s game will be the first road game for quarterbacks Andrew Hatch and Jarrett Lee.LSU prepared for the road atmosphere Wednesday by using artificial noise to simulate the crowd noise LSU will face this weekend.”We handle it in a number of ways,” Miles said. “We use silent cadence. But when it’s so loud that you can’t use cadence, we use a style of cadence that has a rhythmic snap . . . It’s imperfect, but it works.” Miles said he isn’t worried about the composure of his quarterbacks in a hostile environment because of LSU’s loud home crowd.The fourth-year coach said he told Hatch and Lee to prepare for Saturday’s game no differently than they would have prepared for a big game in the lower levels of their careers.”Everybody draws back from their own level of personal experiences,” he said. “There has been some game at some point in time, that was a big time and a big game of consequences. I think everyone says ‘If I could do that then, then I could also do this [now].'” ALEXANDER SET TO MAKE IMPACT ON BIG GAMEMiles said he expects to see more from senior defensive Charles Alexander this weekend.Alexander tore his ACL in the middle of last season and suffered a soft tissue injury in summer camp. The Breaux Bridge native made two tackles in his debut, including one tackle for a loss. “He came off of a game, and he really feels better,” Miles said. “He got to play a little bit, but he played really hard when he was in there and he didn’t fatigue.” RULE BREAKING GAME CHANGERWith what’s expected to be a low-scoring, close game, Miles said the team who wins special teams may have the upper hand.Junior return man Trindon Holliday is expected to have an opportunity to return punts for the second-straight week after having a 92-yard return for a touchdown against North Texas.Miles said he has a rule for punt returners that says they should let the ball bounce if it is inside the 10-yard line. But he said as long as Holliday keeps taking kicks to the endzone, Miles will happily allow Holliday to bend his rule.”The exception to the 10-yard rule is if the ball is kicked there and it’s Trindon and there’s nobody close, then he’s allowed to return it,” he said while laughing. “But we’d prefer if he put a stripe on that 10-yard line and let the ball bounce.” —-Contact Casey Gisclair at [email protected]