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Updated at 1:03 p.m., Monday, October 29, 2007

CFB: 2 LSU players likely out because of brawl

Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. — Backup quarterback Ryan Perrilloux and linebacker Derrick Odom are not expected to play for No. 3 LSU against No. 17 Alabama on Saturday because of their part in a nightclub brawl.

Coach Les Miles said today they will not practice this week.

"We will prepare to play without these guys," Miles said.

No one was arrested in the fight near the LSU campus early Friday when Perrilloux and Odom got into a shoving match with a group of bouncers, the police report said.

Brent McClellan, owner of the Varsity nightclub, said Perrilloux and Odom refused to leave at the 2 a.m. closing time, and the scuffle began when bouncers forced them into a parking lot, according to the report.

Perrilloux and Odom gave a different account. Odom told police the two players "began fighting off the bouncers" to protect themselves and their girlfriends.

Miles sidestepped reporters' questions about the incident in his news conference today, instead focusing on the game coming up in Tuscaloosa.

"From this point on, if you don't mind, I want to talk about Alabama," he said.

Miles suspended both players from the team earlier this year.

Perrilloux was suspended for three months after police cited the 20-year-old for using his older brother's ID card to get into a Baton Rouge casino, where the minimum age of admission is 21.

In September, Odom was arrested for the second time in less than a month, accused of damaging another LSU student's vehicle. Miles suspended Odom for three weeks in August, after the linebacker was arrested after allegedly damaging another student's vehicle and threatening the student. On Aug. 27, Odom apologized to the victims of the August incident and agreed to pay restitution.