ffishstik

WAYYY too early to tell. After one game, 2025, but the 2019 defense improved over the course of the year and was solid by the time they reached the playoffs. We'll see how this year's squad fares, but happy so far!

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Typical lsu fan

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No, it isn't. That's why I'm happy with what happened. It's shitheads like that that give the rest of us a bad rep.

Seriously, there were three horrible calls (or no calls) in the game and two of them were from the replay officials in B'ham, not Gautreaux: the catch/fumble, the TD reversal and there was a blatant grounding that wasn't called. All went against LSU, of course.

From CFN:

6 LSU

Record: 1-0
Last Week Ranking: 8
Last Game: LSU 17, Clemson 10
Up Next: Louisiana Tech

And now LSU has a defense? Uh oh. There's a real chance this is embarrassingly low.


I like this one. We have all season to move up to #1. As long as we FINISH #1, don't care.

I saw him play at Newman and worked the broadcast crew with ESPN on a game where he played against a good HS team from Florida. The book on him is that he struggles against top competition. That seems to still be the case. I wondered if him looking pedestrian against the tougher schools at the HS level had to do with the talent that he had around him at Newman and whether that would improve at the college level at Texas. So far, it seems to be the same. He is a good player. He is nowhere near what he has been hyped up to be. Look for him to put up big numbers against the relatively weak schedule that they have coming up and for the hype to ramp back up, but the jury is still out on whether or not he can do it against the big boys.

You're right, and it wasn't just the game, it was the circumstances. It was a HOME game in the desert that I watched in Orlando. We had booked the trip before the storm and weren't going to go with everything going on, but we had family who had evacuated, our house was mostly undamaged and we had gotten power back, so we just gave them our house and went on the trip for a break. The chaos of that game seemed to mirror the chaos at home a little and seeing it end well was good for the soul.

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you're hoping the preseason AP is way off and a lot of the teams expected to be good will not be

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No, you're hoping that they ARE that good and you beat them anyway.

2011 Auburn game is the first one that comes to mind. The Auburn players were visibly shaken, especially their receiving team on kickoffs.

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Wonder if the 35 roster limit is going to put a premium on duel position players like Beck & Guidry?

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With the attention that Ohtani is getting in the bigs, I could see a premium on guys like Jake Brown who can play a position and also pitch if needed.

1991. Some of my Army buddies were fans and were following their run in Omaha. After that I followed them when they were on TV and when I moved to Baton Rouge in 1993 I went as often as I could, usually just grabbing tix with the Left Field Lunatics. My wife bought me season tickets for graduation in 1997 and the rest is history. :geauxtigers: