Maybe they had time to get guys healthy, maybe the players studied the tape more and/or had the experience of playing them the first time in their head, maybe LSU was distracted by more of Miles' nonsense and/or the qb situation.
I don't know, but saying that these analysts helped more than an average staff would help is giving them far too much credit. In 6 weeks the staff has plenty of time to break down tape and go over tendency and when you factor in that they'd already played and were likely very confident that LSU wasn't going to change much they could likely just rep what they knew would be run.
I do think that 5-7 weeks is too long to wait to play the game, if that matters.
