re: Give an honest assessment of your team going into the season

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They played Florida in the Gator bowl in Meyer's first year.

Compare that to LSU's season last year. LSU lost by:
11 to UCLA (finished unranked at 8-4)
5 to Auburn (finished unranked at 6-7)
21 to Kentucky (finished #15 at 10-3)
14 to Ole Miss (finished #11 at 10-3)
6 to Bama (finished #2 at 13-2)
3 to Arkansas (finished #21 at 9-4)
22 to Kansas State (finished unranked at 8-5)

LSU had one loss to a sub .500 team and 3 losses by 14 or more points. I think that Ohio State wasn't as down as their record might have suggested.

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They weren't, they just had Luke Fickell coaching before he was ready to be the head guy. They threw away a year, but they still had a lot of players on that squad that knew what it was to contend.