After the opening loss to UCLA on the road, the LSU Tigers get back on the field at Tiger Stadium for the first time in 2021. It will be different this time around as a lot more fans will be in the stands.
The Tigers are fully expected to win the next two games against an FCS team (McNeese State) and a Group of Five team (Central Michigan). The schedule gets increasingly more difficult in week four and beyond. On Sept. 25 the team will head to Starkville, Mississippi, for the opening SEC game on the schedule.
Once the Tigers get beyond these first four games, the slate of games are going to test this team mentally and physically. They will likely not be favored to win any of the following five games before they get Arkansas on Nov. 13.
Based on the Football Power Index, we look at the five toughest games on the schedule that begins on Oct. 2.