Late field goal lifts Tigers over Gators

GAINESVILLE, FLA. » Kyle Trask and No. 6 Florida look nowhere near ready for top- ranked Alabama.

Max Johnson threw three touchdown passes in his first college start, Cade York kicked a 57yard field goal with 23 seconds remaining and reigning national champion LSU stunned the Gators 37- 34 on a cool and foggy Saturday night in the Swamp.

York drilled his kick through the dense fog and the uprights, leaving Florida with a final shot. Trask got the Gators ( 8- 2) in position to tie it, but Evan McPherson was wide left from 51 yards on the final play. LSU ( 4- 5) celebrated wildly all over the field.

Johnson had a lot to do with the outcome.

The son of former Super Bowl champion Brad Johnson repeatedly torched Florida’s beleaguered defense. He threw for 239 yards, nearly half of them ( 108) to Kayshon Boutte, and ran for 52 more.

Florida didn’t help itself with three turnovers in the first half that led to 10 points and a 24- 17 lead at the break.

But for most of the game, Trask looked nothing like the Heisman Trophy front- runner.

The Gators looked even less like a team capable of upsetting the Crimson Tide next week in Atlanta in the Southeastern Conference title game with a College Football Playoff spot at stake.

Trask accounted for four touchdowns and three turnovers, first putting his teammates in a hole and then helping them climb out of it.

But Trask and the Gators were unable to rally to beat the undermanned Tigers.