The LSU Tigers wrapped up their abbreviated open date week practices Thursday with the annual “Tiger Bowl” scrimmage.

With helmets and shoulder pads put away until Monday, many players jumped in cars and grabbed plane tickets for a weekend trip home before returning to ramp up preparations for next Saturday’s showdown with No. 1-ranked Alabama.

Quarterback Joe Burrow was headed back home to Athens, Ohio, to catch his alma mater Athens High School take on its archrival, Nelsonville York.

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