re: 2012 LSU is one of the strangest CFB teams I can remember

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other than the ole miss debacle, they're nothing alike

2006 LSU dominated the frick out of its shite teams

it lost to 2, top-10 teams (including the #1 team) on the road

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Well your right about one thing they are different. They are however different because the 06 team with so much talent underachieved in a much weaker SEC. The 2012 team is without 16 of its starters from their base offense and defense from a year ago due the NFL, injuries, and suspensions. The 2012 team overachieved with a much tougher schedule.
The SEC in 06 and 07 were the last two years before we became the one dominant conference. Sure we had two dominant wins against 1-7 MSU and UK (UL put 59 on them that year) but that's it. In 06 what was our best win? Was it when we squeaked by 15th ranked Arkansas that went 10-4 and 7-1 in the SEC West but got beat by a two loss USC team 50-14? What was our next best win during the regular season? Was it beating UT on the last second pass when they finished #25? The UW and MSU wins this year are way better than any regular season wins outside of four loss Arkansas that year.

If you want to talk about a strange team it was the 07 team. They kill Va Tech who I believe was 3 or 4 in the BCS after the regular season and beat OSU by two Touchdowns in the BCSNCG. However the only other team that did not lose four games that year in the SEC was UGA who we did not play. So we did not beat a team with less than four defeats in the SEC. We were losing to UF by 10 to start the 4th, was losing to AU with seconds left, and we were down by a TD to Bama with 3 minutes left. We were lucky to win those games against teams that combined for 14 losses. Then we got beat by a 3-5 in the sec UK team, and a five loss 4-4 in sec Arkansas team. The 07 team goes 4-4 in the SEC playing the same schedule we played this year, and that's if they don't lose to teams they should have beat like they did that year.