Garrett Nussmeier sighed as he answered the question. A few minutes earlier, he had buried his head in a towel on the LSU bench, dismayed that his offense had fallen short once again, this time in a rare loss to Vanderbilt.

The details, Nussmeier said, were the problem. Too often, the Tigers weren’t on the same page. There were back-breaking drops, drive-killing penalties and head-scratching timeouts — usually called after communication problems or substitution issues threatened to move the offense behind the chains.

“It’s frustrating,” Nussmeier said. “We just got to be better as a unit. It’s not on any individuals. It’s the unit as a whole.”

LSU accomplished some things on offense in its 31-24 loss to Vanderbilt. It scored on its opening drive for the first time all season, and i

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