The Saints are playing unbelievable football. They smoked the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles yesterday 48-7 for their ninth straight win. It’s the third straight game they’ve scored 40 points or more. Coach Sean Payton on the success of his offense…
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It goes down as the worst loss ever for a team that won the Super Bowl the year before.

Quarterback Drew Brees threw for 363 yards and four touchdowns. Tre’Quan Smith caught a career-high 10 passes for 157 yards and a touchdown. Fellow wide out Michael Thomas caught four passes for 92 yards and became the first Saint to have over over 1,000 yards receiving in his first three seasons in the NFL.

Les Miles is back as a college football coach. He was introduced yesterday as the new head man for the floundering Kansas Jayhawk football program. The “Hat” has signed a five-year deal worth two-point-seven million dollars annually.

After beating Rice 42-10, LSU has moved up to number eight in both major college football polls. The Tigers close out the regular season this Saturday in College Station against Texas A-and-M. LSU will go for its 10th win, while the Aggies are looking for their eighth win in Jimbo Fisher’s first year.

Nicholls will host San Diego this Saturday in the first round of the F-C-S playoffs. It’s the second straight year the Colonels will host the Pioneer Football League champion in the postseason. Nicholls is one of three Southland schools to make the playoffs, U-I-W and Lamar are also in.

ULM, the Ragin Cajuns and Arkansas State are in a three-way tie for first place in the Sun Belt’s West Division. UL-Lafayette visits the Warhawks this Saturday.