BATON ROUGE — Dan Borne’s plea to the Tiger faithful fell on deaf ears.

Before the celebratory fireworks could even be shot into the sunset-filled sky, thousands of purple and gold colored fans rushed the field inside Tiger Stadium. Borne, the LSU public address announcer, politely asked fans to “please do not go onto the field.”

The fans didn’t listen to Borne’s plea, and in fact even more poured onto the field after his plea — akin to crawfish getting dumped onto a table for a crawfish boil as the majority of the sell out crowd of more than 102,321 were in quite the celebratory mood following No. 13 LSU’s dominating 36-16 win over No. 2 Georgia — the defending Southeastern Conference champion and national title runner-up.

“Tremendous win for our football team,” head coach Ed Orgeron said afterwards. “This was a total team effort. Credit to our football staff starting on Monday. Credit to our players. They were not happy with the results of the Florida game. Obviously, we used it as motivation all week.”

LSU (6-1, 2-1 SEC) was in control of the game from midway through the first quarter to the end of the one-sided contest.

After going three-and-out on its first possession, where starting quarterback Joe Burrow was sacked on third down, the Tigers got the offense going on their second drive as Burrow connected with Terrace Marshall twice on the drive for 43 yards which included a 37-yard completion.

The drive stalled, though, and LSU had to settle for a 33-yard field goal by Cole Tracy, who went on to make field goals of 33, 36, 39, 24 and 30 yards in the game. Those five field goals tied a school single-game record.

Georgia (6-1, 4-1 SEC) began the game by punting on its first drive as well but the Bulldogs found their rhythm too on the team’s second drive. Georgia put together a 12-play drive that went 59 yards with a strong emphasis on running the football as all the yardage came on the ground. The drive stalled and the Bulldogs came out for the field goal.

Georgia decided to go with the fake field goal but LSU didn’t bite as Grant Delpit forced kicker Rodrigo Blankenship to fumble, and Devin White was there to recover. For the first time, the crowd that included thousands of red-colored pom-pom cheering fans in attendance, came alive.

From that moment on, LSU never looked back.

“We had some good offensive possessions there leading up to it,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “I felt like at that time we were going to be able to move the ball. We wanted to be aggressive.

“We thought it was going to be perfect. They had one guy up there that we were going to block. One of their guys ended up not rushing and he rushed every other time. He fell into the play and made it.”

The Tigers answered that turnover by putting together a 12-play, 84-yard scoring drive capped by a Burrow one-yard QB sneak, and added two more Tracy field goals to hold a 16-0 halftime lead.

Even though the Tigers’ drives were ending in 3 points instead of 6, LSU was in total control as Georgia’s offense was stymied having mustered a mere 124 yards by halftime while sophomore quarterback Jake Fromm was only 5-for-16 for 47 yards and no touchdowns. The Bulldogs signal caller, who entered the game ranked fourth nationally in passing efficiency, finished the game 16-of-34 for 209 yards with one touchdown, two interceptions and was sacked three times.

“Offensively, we couldn’t get any rhythm in the second quarter and it’s frustrating,” Smart said. “We had some plays where we missed some opportunities, but we didn’t make the plays.”

Georgia managed to score 16 second-half points but by that time it didn’t matter as LSU never relinquished the lead, or for that matter, control of the game. After the Bulldogs made it 19-9 at the end of the third, LSU scored put together a six-play 86-yard scoring drive, featuring 17- and 19-yard runs by Clyde Edwards-Helaire, and capped by another one-yard score by Burrow.

Edwards-Helaire led all rushers with 145 yards while Burrow added 66 rushing yards to go with his 200 yards passing (15-for-30).

“They broke tackles,” Smart said. “A lot of them. A couple of them were third and short with a chance to stop them. They’d spin out on us. We missed tackles.”

Orgeron made sure to praise his offensive line, which has been banged up and maligned this season, for the Tigers rushing for 275 yards.

“Give Jimmy (offensive line coach James Cregg) credit,” Orgeron said. “Give those guys credit. They felt bad. They felt bad all week. They were hungry. They felt like they let the team down. Obviously, they took it upon themselves to play better today and they did.”

After Georgia fumbled on the ensuing kickoff, LSU quickly scored again with another Tracy field goal, and then after a Bulldogs touchdown, wrapped up the game with a four-yard touchdown run by Nick Brossette with less than five left in the game.

“Great crowd, great LSU football and that’s the way its supposed to be,” said Orgeron, whose team hosts Mississippi State at 6 p.m. next Saturday. “Total team effort.”

A little more than 20 minutes after the Tigers sealed that “total team effort”, Borne got on the mic once more and asked fans to please clear the field, as to not damage the field for next Saturday’s game.

This time the fans happily obliged Borne his plea that time — they had celebrated on the field long enough for this particular Saturday.