It seems as though everyone has an opinion on the job status of current LSU Tigers head coach Ed Orgeron. Finishing 5-5 in 2020 after the team went 15-0 on way to the CFP national championship seemed to raise a lot of eyebrows.
Orgeron had a top-tier quarterback in Joe Burrow during that season that led them to LSU’s third championship since 2000. That brought plenty of comparisons to Gene Chizik’s run to the BCS title with Cam Newton in 2010. Both quarterbacks would be selected No. 1 overall in the NFL draft following the season.
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It seems like everyone believes that Orgeron is Chizik 2.0 or Larry Coker from the Miami Hurricanes. A coach that inherited a national championship team. That is an argument for another time.
However, our colleagues at Auburn Wire have a bold proclamation for the upcoming battle on Oct. 2 in Death Valley.
“This is my bold prediction. Auburn is going to go down to LSU, win by three scores, and Ed Orgeron will get fired the next day. They pulled the trigger with Les (Miles) against Auburn, so why wouldn’t they do it now?” – Auburn Wire editor Zac Blackerby
During the 2016 season, the LSU Tigers opened up the season with a loss to an unranked team. Does that sound familiar? The team would play a team from the FCS in the second game of the year. Sure sounds a lot like that 2016 team that hosted Jacksonville State in week two of the season. They won 34-13.
In the first conference game that year, LSU played Mississippi State. The only difference is that game took place in week three rather than week four this year. Plus the Tigers head on the road this time around. The very next week in that 2016 season, LSU played Auburn. They lost the game 18-13 and Les Miles was fired following the loss.
Miles was coming off a 9-3 season in 2015, but in 2016 the loss to Wisconsin was the fourth loss in the last six games. They barely defeated an unranked Bulldogs team before the Auburn game. It ended up as another loss to an unranked team.
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It would be quite a story if Orgeron lost to Auburn by multiple scores for the second-straight time. If they struggle against Central Michigan and lose to Mississippi State again, this story could come full circle in early October.