A Louisiana radio host said to Tim Williams Tuesday: It seems like each of the last three years Alabama's defense has known what LSU's offense was going to do even before the play was called. Why?

The explanation from the former Crimson Tide star linebacker: Alabama stacked the box to stop the run and LSU kept trying to run the ball anyway.

"They just downright really just going to keep running this ball knowing that we've got eight men in the box," Williams explained during the interview on 104.5 FM in Baton Rouge, drawing laughs from the show's two hosts. "If they would have passed the ball or showed some passing or something, it would have been a different three to four years, but they just kept running the ball and just kept running and running. We were like, 'Man, I don't know what the deal is with this.'"

Alabama has beaten LSU six straight times, holding the Tigers to 17 points or less in each of those six games.

During a 30-16 win over LSU in 2015, the Tide held star running back Leonard Fournette to 31 yards on 19 carries while quarterback Brandon Harris was just 6 of 19 for 128 yards.

Last year, Alabama held Fournette to 35 yards on 17 carries during a 10-0 win. Quarterback Danny Etling was just 11 of 24 for 92 yards with no touchdowns and an interception.