Tag: 2020 LSU football season

LSU basketball not ranked in Ferris Mowers Coaches Poll

The LSU basketball team is not ranked in the AP Top 25 or the Ferris Mowers coaches poll despite sitting at 8-2 on the season.

The LSU Tigers are not ranked in either the AP Top 25 Poll or the Ferris Mowers Coaches Poll this week.

Although the Tigers are 8-2, the program has yet to beat or play a ranked opponent. All 10 of the Tigers’ games up to this point have been against unranked opponents.

LSU’s game against Missouri last weekend was postponed and the Tigers played Ole Miss instead. Had the Missouri game taken place, a win for LSU would have likely pushed them to being ranked in both polls.

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In the AP Top 25 poll, the Tigers received seven votes this week. But in the coaches poll, LSU is not listed in the receiving votes category.

The Tigers are currently scheduled to play just one ranked SEC opponent- No. 10 Tennessee- in conference play. In the Big 12/SEC Challenge, LSU will host No. 15 Texas Tech.

Overall in the SEC, the conference has three teams ranked in this week’s Ferris Mowers Coaches Poll.

Here are the updated rankings for Week 8 of the coaches poll.

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  1. Gonzaga (12-0)
  2. Baylor (11-0)
  3. Villanova (8-1)
  4. Texas (10-1)
  5. Michigan (10-0)
  6. Creighton (10-2)
  7. Kansas (10-2)
  8. Iowa (11-2)
  9. Wisconsin (10-2)
  10. Tennessee (9-1)
  11. Houston (10-1)
  12. Clemson (9-1)
  13. Illinois (9-4)
  14. West Virginia (9-4)
  15. Texas Tech (10-3)
  16. Missouri (7-2)
  17. Oregon (9-2)
  18. Louisville (8-1)
  19. Minnesota (10-4)
  20. Virginia Tech (9-2)
  21. UCLA (9-2)
  22. Virginia (7-2)
  23. Duke (5-2)
  24. Saint Louis (7-1)
  25. Alabama (9-3)

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Former LSU president F. King Alexander says SEC blind to ‘reality’

LSU is set to kick off the season against the Ole Miss Rebels in Tiger Stadium next month.

The Big Ten and the Pac-12 may have done away with their seasons, but three of the other Power 5 conferences — including the SEC — are moving forward with putting on a 2020 college football season.

Former LSU president F. King Alexander, who now serves as the president of Pac-12 school Oregon State, doesn’t believe the SEC is living in “reality” as teams push toward the Sept. 26 start date in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

“Logistically and realistically, it’s quite a gamble on their part, a big gamble,” Alexander said in an interview with the Oregonian. “There are serious consequences if they lose.”

With 54 programs across the nation not competing in fall sports this year, prompting the NCAA to cancel all fall championships.

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The decision does not affect FBS football and the College Football Playoff Championship.

There are still some concerns surrounding just how football will move forward, and some concerns about a “legitimate championship.”

“The board of governors also established if you don’t have half of the schools playing a sport, you can’t have a legitimate championship,” NCAA president Mark Emmert said. “We can’t in any Division I NCAA championship sport now, which is everything other than FBS football that goes on in the fall. Sadly, tragically, that’s going to be the case this fall, full stop.”

Six FBS conferences are working toward having a season as of now, while canceling all other fall sports.

LSU is set to kick off the season against the Ole Miss Rebels in Tiger Stadium next month.

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Ed Orgeron: There isn’t a ‘Plan B’ for LSU

What’s left of the potential for a 2020 college football season became even bleaker on Tuesday.

What’s left of the potential for a 2020 college football season became even bleaker on Tuesday, when the Big Ten announced it would not be playing this year and reports emerged that the PAC-12 would follow suit.

For now, the SEC football season is still on, and Tigers coach Ed Orgeron has his eyes on “moving forward” with his team after guiding last year’s group to a national championship victory.

He says that there is no “Plan B” in place.

“Our players want to play, I do believe the SEC wants to play,” Orgeron said Tuesday. “I do have to give it to our commissioner for waiting to get the most information and making the correct decision for our football team and I do believe he will make that.”

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There have been a number of voices around the SEC and beyond that have been outspoken about wanting the college football season to be played outside of just Orgeron — and it’s a lengthy list that goes all the way up to Donald Trump.

Trump praised Orgeron this week in an interview with Outkick, when he spoke on the football season.

“First of all, those people in that sport are incredible people,” he said. “Some of the coaches like Nick Saban and Coach O (Ed Orgeron), how bout Coach O, he’s central casting. And Lou Holtz is a fantastic friend of mine. So many others. They’re just great people and they want to play football. These people are so powerful and so strong and not lots of body fat, maybe none in some cases and they’re very healthy people. People don’t realize it’s a tiny percentage of people who get sick. They’re old. Especially old people with heart and weight problems.”

“I love President Trump, he treated us very well when we went to the White House and I think he’s doing a fantastic job,” Orgeron said in response.

LSU is currently set to begin the season on Sept. 26 against the Ole Miss Rebels in Tiger Stadium.

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