Bye before Bama game

As long as we're stuck with this passive, Les Miles type of PHILOSOPHY on offense, the bye week really makes no difference.

Bama always looks so good against us because of the bye, not in spite of it. It may not seem like it, but Saban knows that LSU is one of the few legitimate threats they face every year. Saban is not stupid.

As long as Bama continues to schedule their bye before the LSU matchup, we should as well.

I’d love for us to mix it up. No bye week and a 2:30 cbs game instead of 7

I believe it was Ruffin Rodrigue who said that the two weeks off before the game allowed the game to be so hyped up that when it came time to play the game our players were exhausted. Maybe. Alabama still has just about every high school player they want.

Ive been hoping we can find a way to move the auburn game back (hoping that them moving the UGA game UP will help that) and then we take the bye week before Auburn rather than Bama....I don't care when Bama takes theirs. The two week buildup for the team, fans and media definitely has not helped LSU

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Bama always looks so good against us because of the bye,

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There are alot of factors that contribute to this and them having their bye week certainly helps. Saban wants to beat LSU bad, really bad. There's a history there and don't believe any word he says to the contrary when he says it's "just another game" for him. He goes head to hear with LSU for alot of recruits and alot of those recruits are in this state. Look how much of that roster is made up from Louisiana kids. Those kids didnt grow up in Alabama, they didn't grow up feeling the Iron Bowl pressure. I can promise you, to kids like Buggs and Moses, etc the LSU game means more to them than the Auburn game. Saban won't want you to believe it and yes, in the end it comes down to winning the west and the SEC but beating LSU just means more to them than beating everyone else on that schedule except for Auburn and I would argue that for some, beating LSU means more than Auburn. LSU gets their best effort year after year and the factors that play into that are numerous.

Maybe a bye week after Bama to recover physically

Yes. Cupcake before Bama...bye week afterwards.

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Now, if we were to do something innovative, like, I don't know, use that 2 weeks to install different plays and looks that he hasn't seen yet, we might be able to keep it competitive. But it's always the exact same shite with the exact same level of impotence that we ran the entire season leading up to the game. The only way to beat him is to catch him off guard.

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Right. Which is why I would like to see us play them early in the season before they have so much film to analyze about our players and coaches tendencies and weaknesses. It would be more of a "going in blind" scenario for Alabama and it might give us an edge. We need every edge we can get. That is how Saban goes in to his games. Get every edge you can.

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As long as Bama continues to schedule their bye before the LSU matchup, we should as well.

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It was LSU under Miles who first started putting a bye week prior to the Bama game. It took Bama several years later to realize that they should do the same....and we haven't won a game since then.