re: I'm actually not insanely upset

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Mullen proved what I knew all along, that dude can coach. He is squeezing everything he can out of this Jim Mcelwain roster.

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This. I really don't feel all that bad about last night. In eight quarters of football, we took down Auburn and then hung with LSU through three of the remaining four. I hate Trask threw that pick in the end zone simply because I really wanted to beat the spread, but I would have never guessed we'd hang that long in an offensive slugfest.

I'm surprised at how bad our defense is without Zu and Greenard up front, but LSU has a legit offensive juggernaut this year. They're going to score points on everyone they play I feel, and beating them will come down to stopping them a few times and not getting stopped yourself. So some of that is our depth issues getting exposed, and some of it was just LSU being that good. I think Joe Burrow is a complete prick, but he's one helluva quarterback.

I think that, in general, our coaching staff has schemed their asses off. We lost to a more complete team in their house last night, but we made them beat us at least. And no, that isn't a moral victory, but my expectations for this season was to be competitive with the best in our conference as a sign of us returning to being the best in our conference as well. No more of this showing up in Atlanta and just getting destroyed kinda shite. Through 7 games, I feel we are meeting that expectation.

Now CDM and crew have to keep the wheels on for next week. I think getting a win up at SCar after this let down and sandwiched in between LSU and UGA is going to be a tall order, one we're capable of, but one I can see us not ultimately filling as well.