The problem is not playing to your strengths or admitting the limitations of your personnel. In this type of game, field position is everything. Yes, LSU failed to score off of the changes of possession. However, if we punt a couple of those and pin LSU inside the 10, our chances of starting the next drive in excellent field position go up exponentially. Instead, they start at the 30, make a first down or two and then use their world class punter to flip the field on us. Huge difference in the game.
As for the Maze pass call, again we are about one more first down from a very makeable FG (for once). Trent had just got done gashing them, and he's on the sideline watching a guy attempt about his 3rd or 4th pass of his college career in the biggest game of the last 5 or 6 years.
What is so amazing about someone questioning those calls?