If someone told me Saturday morning Florida senior quarterback Tim Tebow would start and LSU would hold the Gators to 13 points but the Tigers would still lose the game by double digits, I would have called him a liar.But he would have been telling the truth — Saturday night’s contest met all three of these conditions.Tebow did start and showed no real signs of the concussion that knocked him out of Florida’s game against Kentucky two weeks ago and made him miss more than a week of practice.LSU’s defense did play well enough to hold the explosive Florida offense to its lowest point total since a 31-3 loss against Alabama in 2005.And LSU did indeed lose the game by 10 points, scoring its lowest point total since 2006. It was the fewest points any LSU team had scored in Tiger Stadium since a 31-0 loss to Alabama in 2002. Who would have thought?LSU only amassed 162 yards of total offense in Saturday’s loss, and numbers like those could derail any team’s hopes of being a legitimate contender for the Southeastern Conference title or any other meaningful accolades, for that matter.LSU’s offense looked terrible for about 80 percent of the time it had the ball Saturday night, and tough sledding could be ahead for the Tigers if they don’t make some changes.This junk just will not cut it. Offensive coordinator Gary Crowton and coach Les Miles need to step back, reassess things and make changes accordingly. The changes may need to start with the play calling.The LSU offense has been called “vanilla” pretty much all season because of its bland and unimaginative play calling.Many thought the “vanilla” approach was the result of a simplified approach to the start of the schedule most teams employ. The prevalent reason behind it is to avoid showing all of the different wrinkles the offense possesses.”Vanilla” is fine for a few weeks, but there doesn’t seem to have been much flavor added to the Tiger attack. It’s almost as if the coaches are content with running a low-risk/low-reward style of offense which features runs out of spread formations, a bastardized version of the option and an almost nonexistent vertical passing game. That obviously didn’t work Saturday, as LSU was unable to sustain drives or pick up any semblance of momentum.Stats don’t lie. Sophomore quarterback Jordan Jefferson was 11-of-17 passing for only 96 yards and an interception, and LSU’s leading rusher was senior running back Charles Scott, who gained 53 yards on 13 carries.One of the coaches’ biggest play-calling blunders was a fourth-and-short situation in the fourth quarter when LSU was trailing by 10.Instead of lining up with a couple of tight ends and sending Jefferson, who is 6 feet, 5 inches tall, right up the middle for a possible fourth down, someone decided it was a good time to line up in a shotgun formation and attempt a pass. Jefferson was eventually sacked, and the ball was turned over on downs.  They seemingly didn’t put Jefferson in a situation where he could have succeeded. And they do this a lot. I’m so accustomed to seeing the read option to Scott on first and second downs, I could potentially run the play myself if need be.  Another issue which seems to be hurting the offense is personnel decisions. Senior running back Keiland Williams has seen his touches reduce drastically as of late. Williams rushed for 184 yards and two scores on 36 carries in LSU’s first four games, but he has all but disappeared in the contests against Georgia and Florida. He only has five carries for four yards in those two games.I don’t get it. Another player who needs to see the ball more is freshman quarterback Russell Shepard, who hasn’t thrown a pass all season — but the kid sure can run.He has 17 carries for 106 yards — a 6.2 yard per carry average — in the four games in which he’s played. The freshman didn’t see the field at all Saturday night.There’s no reason he shouldn’t have at least been given a go at it, considering nothing else they tried in the game seemed to work too well.Aside from play calling and personnel, LSU has other problems on offense space limitations won’t let me delve into. For instance, the Tigers are dead last in the SEC in total offense and sacks allowed and No. 11 in scoring offense.These things need to be fixed, coaches. It’s a shame athletes are getting thrown under the bus because of things they have no control over. It’s the coaches who are at fault for a large chunk of the poor offensive production.Luckily for LSU, it has a bye week coming up in which the coaches can address this stuff. Hope for a great season is by no means lost. Johanathan Brooks is a 21-year-old mass communication senior from Powder Springs, Ga. Follow him on Twitter @TDR_jbrooks.–Contact Johanathan Brooks at [email protected]