LSU is just over a week away from beginning its national title defense, and while coach Jay Johnson’s team lost a pair of studs in [autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag] and [autotag]Dylan Crews[/autotag], as well as several other key contributors, it has retooled this offseason.
The Tigers enter the year as a preseason unanimous top-five team as they return stars like [autotag]Tommy White[/autotag] and [autotag]Thatcher Hurd[/autotag] and added one of the top transfer portal classes in the nation to go with an elite recruiting class.
However, the path won’t be easy. The SEC is loaded again, as always, and the media picked the Tigers to finish second in the West division this season behind another team the media is quite high on.
Here are the full preseason SEC media standings. Note: First-place votes are indicated by parentheses.