re: Do great wins overcome terrible losses?

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. If LSU would somehow beat bama and then Uga and win the SEC the Troy loss wouldn't even enter into the discussion

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If the Troy loss was the only loss, you wouldn’t come off so stupid. People really don’t like that 2nd loss. That has been proven numerous times.

My god you're stupid, the point is the Troy game means nothing as an individual loss. I should've known I'd have to spell it out for the retards like yourself. The criteria is simple Win your conference and have a better or equal record as the other teams in question then it's simply politics. If there were one team with a single loss and all of the other conf champions had 2 losses including us the Troy game wouldn't mean anything and LSU would be in the playoffs. I assumed you'd understand in the scenario i posted that Bama would have 2 losses I should've included that because even if we beat bama and Miss state Bama would get in before us just like Ohio State did over Penn St last year. Maybe you should watch more college football and not just listen to the morons on the rant and BR media. Try leaving this restarted bubble you might actually learn something. In 2014 Ohio State lost to a 7-6 Virginia Tech team while TCU with the same final record only lost to the #5 11-2 Baylor Bears, Ohio State made the playoffs TCU didn't the strength of the team that beat Ohio State didn't make a damn bit of difference just like anyone who follows the way teams are selected will tell you. The question wasnt about our current status or prospects, the question was do big wins overcome bad losses and the answer is yes they do.

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With great wins come great forgiveness...

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Do you write the messages in fortune cookies?

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Every year. This is said every year.


Are we sure about that?

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If Brennan or Narcisse is worse than Etling, there is no hope for LSU having. Good passing game. You guys can rah rah about how tough Etling is all year, but he's just not good.

However I believe the QB will be able to do a lot more in this Canada offense than Etling has done.

The bad losses this year were costly to LSU. No chance at the playoffs and probably no chance at a New Year's six bowl. Even if we run the table, which I don't think we come close to doing, the beat down by MSU and losing to Troy at home will be held against us. Even if we beat Bama on the road those losses hurt.

The team started the season flat and has turned it up the last two games. Most of us have no idea which LSU team shows up in Oxford but we're hoping it's the one from the second half of the Auburn game.

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If we win out, beating a #1 Alabama and a #1 Georgia in SEC Championship, I do not think we can be denied a slot for the playoffs

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I'd beg to differ. We had some inexcusable losses early. Had this been like a 6 team seed, I could see a chance. The only possibility of that happening with a 4 team playoff is if there are not enough power 5 one loss teams. There is no group of 5 team that you could even consider a top 10 team let alone top 4, so that's why it would come down to the Power 5. Let's say LSU does finish out and there are no more ridiculous upsets (there is a difference between upsets and teams that shouldn't be able to keep the game within 10 points). IMO this is how it would shape out

Washington, Washington St, or USC as a 1 loss Pac champ
Ohio State, Penn St, or Wisconsin as a 1 loss Big 10 champ
Miami or Clemson as a 1 loss ACC champ
TCU as undefeated or a 1 loss Big 12 champ, Oklahoma or Oklahoma St as a 1 loss Big 12 champ.
Bama as a 1 loss team, UGA as a 1 loss team.

Realistically I can see TCU or Oklahoma from the big 12, Clemson from ACC (if the starting QB is back), a one loss Wisconsin (big 10 champ or not), Ohio St or Penn St big 10 champ, and 1 loss Bama over LSU. Again like I said, 6 teams, the committee probably would go with us as the wildcard 6th seed, but no way with 4 team playoff.

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The 2 losses (although ugly), came early and if we were to win out, we would probably be playing the best football in the country at the end of the season.

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Agree with this 100%. TAMU is better than everybody but Auburn that we have played so far. Bama would be #1 and UGA would be no worse than top 5 (possibly #1), when we play them in the conference title game. It's the fact that there were two horrible losses. One on its own might have been seen as a team finding itself. LSU should hope to finish like Penn St/USC. USC started 1-3 with two big losses including one destruction by Bama. They finished 9-3 regular season looking like one of the hottest teams around beating two teams that finished the regular season with their only losses coming from USC or Michigan. Penn St started 2-2 with an upset loss vs Pitt and a huge blowout loss vs Michigan. They finished the pre bowl game year 11-2 with wins vs #2 Ohio St, ranked Iowa, and 2 loss Wisconsin division champ, whose only regular season losses came from Ohio St and Michigan.

have you ever heard the word ABOMINATION?? If we play both MSU and TROY surely the outcomes would be different. Move on man, those are over and done with.

They do if you lose early in the season and have a team that rhymes with Habalama