re: This Year Is Hard To Predict

I think Auburn loses to Alabama, LSU, and Arkansas - hands down. Your early games against Clemson and Mississippi State could be very close due to the number of new players that you are breaking in. Both games are early in the season and Clemson is on the road. I think you lose to South Carolina - another away game. Georgia is a coin toss - they have really gotten beat up in the offseason and you guys play them late, which I think is good for you and bad for them. Florida is my sleeper team in the East. They have recruited really well the last three or four years. I think they start rolling by the end of the year. If your OL hasn't gelled by then, their DL could have a field day on your QB, who will be inexperienced. 7-5 best case scenario. 6-6 most likely. If you drop both games to Miss. St. and Clemson, I think you have to start worrying about the wheels coming off. I think your squad has a lot of talent, but it's a rough schedule in the hardest division in the country.

As for LSU, pretty similar story. Our schedule is brutal with Oregon and WV both on the road as out of conference games. I think we split Oregon and West Virginia, and split Alabama and Arkansas, and end up 10-2.