LSU, exceeding all expectations in Year 1 under [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag], will play for an SEC title.
The road LSU took to get here isn’t normal. LSU dropped the opener in the weirdest possible way, got blown out by Tennessee and was on the wrong side of an upset in College Station.
LSU began the year unranked only to enter rivalry week in the top five before dropping to No. 14 this week.
LSU’s in this spot thanks to some big wins in Tiger Stadium. The Tigers beat Mississippi State and Ole Miss by a combined 39 points and pulled off an overtime upset over Alabama.
Despite making its way to the SEC Championship, at 9-3, LSU is out of the playoff discussion. Had LSU beat Texas A&M, it probably would be win and in for the Tigers on Saturday. Now, LSU must fight just to get to the New Year’s Six.
It is a sizeable underdog to Georgia. The Bulldogs, 12-0, are the defending national champs. They’re better than LSU in every phase of the game. Using logic, it’s hard to see a way in which LSU wins this game, but today we’re going to try.
LSU is still LSU. It has good players and a coaching staff that’s no stranger to big moments. Its chances aren’t good, but they also aren’t non-existent.
Here’s a recipe for the Tigers to pull off the upset in Atlanta.