LSU will not seriously contend for the National Title this season

I realize most of you don’t pay close attention to teams other than your own. I try to be as objective as possible looking at LSU and when I do that I see a team that is over ranked at #5 and isn’t ready to be a serious title contender.

Reason being is there’s not enough difference makers on either side of the ball, defensively especially. There are a lot of really good football players on the team don’t get me wrong, but there’s basically just 6 or 7 that REALLY flash: 2 on the OL, a freshman running back, Malik, Perkins, and Maason Smith. Of those only 3 have extensive experience in SEC play.

The pluses are the OL and DL are the strength of team and I still believe that’s where you win and lose games. Also the coaching staff’s organization and attention to detail is outstanding.l and will carry us through in tough situations. But then you look at a guy like Omar Speights, who is a very good football player, but he’s not going to be a first round draft pick next year. He’s more like a better version of Micah Baskerville than he is Devin White. There’s a lot of those type players on this team. You can win a lot of games with players like that but in terms of winning a title you’ll be exposed by the really elite level talent teams.

Overall I think visually it will look a lot better, what they’ve done to shore up this program in 18 months is really impressive. They may end up being a better team than last year but it might not show up on the final record. Probably will lose to Bama, FSU is a true coinflip, and they will probably drop another game against a creative offense that can exploit the secondary. 9.5 o/u win total is right on imo. If absolutely everything goes right they can maybe get to 11-1 but would lose in the SECCG or in the semi final if they didn’t win the west at 11-1 . If absolutely everything goes wrong I could see 8-4 but the coaching it too good to be much worse than that imo.