The LSU Tigers enter the 2020 college football season with a host of last year’s talent missing, but some exciting names who have the potential to step up this season.
USA TODAY writers recently projected the best and worst outcomes for several teams this year, including LSU.
The network’s Glenn Guilbeau cited a 9-1 record as the best-case scenario for the Tigers this year, as going through Alabama is never easy.
“The Tigers have too many personnel losses to return to the national championship game: quarterback Joe Burrow, pass game coordinator Joe Brady and top wide receivers Ja’Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson,” he wrote. “But they can still reach the playoffs without winning the SEC. The only regular-season loss will likely come to Alabama.”
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Things could obviously go much worse for LSU, though, given the amount of turnover.
Much of the outcome is going to depend upon quarterback play.
“If new quarterback Myles Brennan struggles or hovers around mediocrity, the Tigers could be forced to rely too much on the running game and their defense, which would mean losses to Alabama, Auburn and Florida,” he wrote. New hire Bo Pelini will be coordinating his first defense since 2007, and his defenses at Nebraska and Youngstown State as a head coach were often average to very bad.”
It will be interesting to see which note the Tigers start off the season on when they take on the Mississippi State Bulldogs at 2:30 p.m. CST on Saturday, Sept. 26.
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