Our game against Auburn was a perfect storm, the game this week is too

Another important factor is Florida is very similar to LSU scheme wise. I think we are going to have a harder time moving the ball but if our defense plays like it did against Florida than I feel very good about our chances.

6pm crowd will be lit.

Our terrible rushing defense ranking and stats are sort of a misnomer.

We've been gashed by the run when facing spread teams who run the ball well or who have good running QBs (e.g. TCU, A&M, Alabama, Auburn). Traditional pro sets and I forms are a different story.

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This is very much a Jekyll-Hyde team, but we do seem to play more like Dr. Jekyll when we play a pro style offense like florida or lsu.

LSU's defense looked impressive holding bama scoreless through most of the game until they finally wore out.

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That's the one thing that concerns me. As odd as it sounds, we've never really handled "success" well in the Bielema era, and we're extremely bipolar.

We almost lose to Louisiana Tech and proceed to beat TCU on the road.

We start the 2015 season ranked and then drop two embarrassing losses in a row to Toledo and Texas Tech, after which we proceed to thrash Tennessee in Knoxville.

We creep up into the rankings this year only to get blasted by A&M. We get run over by Bama, then beat Ole Miss, follow that up by getting annihilated by Auburn, after which we crush a top 10 Florida team.

I don't know what to think, but Bert better have this team ready to fricking play this week and not patting itself on the back.

Hillary








I figured, secretly you wanted to know so I told you.

Some people just want to watch the world burn

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I really expect us to lose this game on paper. LSU will have to be flat or just coached by an idiot (very very real possibilities) for us to win. Their strengths mesh too well with our weaknesses.

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Well, you could say the same thing the last two years

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I'm thinking we blow them out honestly.

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Would love to see it for sure. Then sit back and wait for the excuses about how the game doesn't matter to them and on and on. I want three in a row bad.

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Our terrible rushing defense ranking and stats are sort of a misnomer.

We've been gashed by the run when facing spread teams who run the ball well or who have good running QBs (e.g. TCU, A&M, Alabama, Auburn). Traditional pro sets and I forms are a different story.

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LSU plays to the strong points of our defense. Smith and company have built our defense to defend a pro style team and its the offense that Smith is most comfortable calling a defense against.

While LSU has some talent I like our chances. My biggest concern, and I know this will sound dumber then a bag of hammers, is that our defense shuts down LSU once again and that Robb Smith manages to keep his job for another year as a result.

He's a good guy by all accounts and he really is rock solid when it comes to defending a pro style system... but right now we will probably face one or two teams running that system in the SEC and OOC per season.

Everybody is running the hurry up spread just like everyone was running the wishbone back in the day. And like back in the day we need a DC who knows how to stop the offense we are going to see most often during the season.