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BATON ROUGE -- When a team has outscored opponents 165 to 23, gotten touchdowns on as many as 50 percent of its drives in a game and forced the other team into three-downs-and-outs more than a third of the time, what's a coach got left to do?

In the case of LSU, find a weakness.

Coach Les Miles has identified such an area -- the Tigers' returns on punts and kickoffs.

"I think our return game, both on the kickoff return and the punt return, must improve," he said. "We spend a lot of time, we've got talented returners. We need to handle the ball cleanly and start a much more aggressive return game. We practice it enough. We don't need to give anymore time to it. It just has to start showing up on Saturdays."

Part of the problem, according to special teams coach Bradley Dale Pevoto, is experience -- the return game on kickoffs hasn't had a chance to show up. With opponents scoring so rarely, LSU has fielded seven kickoffs through four games.

And it's not as if LSU's field position has been lousy. Only against Virginia Tech has the Tigers' starting position on drives been inside its 34-yard line, and that might be a testament to the Hokies' famous special teams rather than LSU's lackluster return game. Even then, it made little difference, as LSU had scoring drives in that game of 87, 85, 87 and 94 yards.

All told, three Tigers have returned kickoffs this year -- sophomores Trindon Holliday and Keiland Williams and senior Early Doucet. None of them have particularly sparkled, and the team is averaging just 17.3 yards per return, with the longest going for 26 yards.

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