re: Is anyone outside of Baton Rouge realistically picking LSU to win?

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If LSU can keep their passing game going and use their LBs to spy on Milroe and blitz every play, I easily see LSU winning. I wish we had uses this for our game plan but we wanted to establish the run for some damn reason. I wish we had that game back.

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Alabama has a very experienced secondary. The best way to attack them in the passing game is catching safety on best WR scenarios when they blitz or linebackers getting matched up on athletic TEs up the seam.

Even so, Alabama’s interior DBs are significantly better than in the past few years. That hasn’t been an area to exploit quite the same as 2022.

Hard to run on Alabama though. They’ve gotten bigger on the DL and a bit deeper than 2022. Linebacker play has improved considerably. ILBs don’t get washed out of the play by sloppy run fits.
Any defense can get cooked on a given day but this is the closest Alabama has been to having a truly great defense since the end of 2017.