This will rustle jimmies for sure, but I'll try to give an unbiased opinion on the LSU game that will undoubtedly be at least somewhat biased.

I assume the reason people are picking LSU to beat us is that it is in Baton Rouge. Any other reason doesn't really make sense to me.

On defense, I see their biggest strength being the secondary, and I imagine we will have some difficulty passing on them. They lost both DTs and have had good but not great LB play which should mean there is a strong chance we will be able to run on them. This should mean that we would be able to use the run to open up the passing game. On offense, we have talent and experience at RB and the line, so we should have the edge in the RB vs LB match up and OL vs DL match up. Basically, our strength should be going up against their weakness.

On offense, they have inexperience everywhere but especially at the QB and WR position. There is talent there, but we don't have too much basis at all right now for how well they will really do when they are the starters. Their strength should be the running game, but fortunately for us, our strength on defense is the front 7. I imagine this will be evenly matched and really great to watch.

In summary, our offensive strength should go against their defensive weakness while their offensive strength should go against our defensive strength.