re: Dandy Don Count Down-LSU’s Five Toughest Football Games of 2025

And they have an excellent coach.

We got lucky in beating them last season. Should have been an L

5) South Carolina
4) Florida
3) @ Ole Miss
2) @ Bama
1) Clemson


Reason for Florida is Lagway and this will be LSU first SEC game in game 3.

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I been saying it on here this and Florida are the 2 bigger trap games people seem to be forgetting about because they're at home. Both these teams can sneak up on LSU at home. SC deservedly should've been in the playoffs last year.


They got absolutely rammed by the media when if they actually watched that team they had an argument about midway through the season to the end they were among the best looking team. Definitely looked top 5. Had they also did their job and realized their loss to LSU was due to their QB getting hurt. That game was looking like it might get ugly for LSU until he got hurt.


Knowing what we do now looking at the playoff teams, SC absolutely deserved a shot compared to some of the back end teams that went in. I don't know if the SEC is as dominant as it was in the past but there's definitely media agenda to prevent getting SEC teams in the playoffs.

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Disagree on either team "sneaking up" on LSU AT HOME.

1. Florida - People are putting WAY too much of what happened last year onto this year. Florida is nowhere near as good as people are try to hype them to be just because of what they did late last year. That game last year was a culmination of a few things. LSU was up on TAMU only for Nuss and the defense to completely blow it in embarrassing fashion. The Alabama game was completely demoralizing. For the fanbase, for the team, for everybody. Season was over for the LSU faithful at that point. Then we go ON THE ROAD, to a team that has lost the last 5 years to LSU. A team whose coach was basically out the door had he lost to LSU and then Ole Miss. They had a fire to win, LSU was just trying to find a meaning to the rest of the season. Think about it like this. Ole Miss had just beaten UGA by 18 only to go into the next week and lose to Florida? It's pretty obvious that momentum and emotion played an extreme part in the last few games.

IMO, LSU is going to dog walk Florida.

2. South Carolina - Yes, they have every reason to go beat LSU, but they are still just South Carolina. Whether they are good or bad, LSU always beats South Carolina. Whit knows he had a terrible game vs Sellers last year. Perk didn't even get to play. Our DL is superior compared to last season in run defense too. Sellers can throw, but he's still not polished. They'll more than likely make Perkins a spy and contain Sellers. Again, he's not Jayden Daniels passing the ball. He's not going to sit in the pocket dicing you up. Also, they just don't have the skill players for it. They have that big bodied fast guy, but that's about it. He isn’t a polished route runner himself. I actually think we could line the 6'4 freshman up with him and give him safety help. I remember Stingley going up against senior 6'6 Texas reciever Johnson and pretty much limiting him to 50 yards. Also, that defense is not the same one from last year.

LSU beats South Carolina by 17+