re: LSU: 4-0, highly ranked and about to be put to the test

Gotcha.
It's probably a good time for me to say I didn't randomly decide to bring Perrilloux into the column. He was playing in Louisiana for the first time since he left LSU, and AP asked me to cover the game. Watching him and LSU on the same day drove home a few connections that I knew wouldn't be obvious to people who didn't watch both on the same day.

I chose to stay away from some of the obvious for that reason, and because if I wrote what everyone else wrote, Chicken probably wouldn't want me to write for him.

I doubt I'll visit the topic again anytime soon, but yesterday it felt like an interesting way to look at one of the less obvious influences upon the quality of this team.