re: Don't know about you, but it's starting to hit me how huge this game against A&M is

I just LOVE how LSU gets Ole Miss and A&M their first two sec games. Mean while UGA , Texas and BAMA get the bottom of the league their first two sec games. Seems truly fair nothing to see here.

In the portal era teams are built like basketball teams. One year runs, you’re rebuilding every year so you’re wrong bud. He should win this year with a 50 million dollar roster and number 1 portal

The issue is leavitt sucks, the sooner he gets away from him the better we are. He’s a head case with no composure.

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I just LOVE how LSU gets Ole Miss and A&M their first two sec games. Mean while UGA , Texas and BAMA get the bottom of the league their first two sec games.

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Alabama has to play

@State
UGA
@tenn
A&M
Bye
@LSU

That’s a hell of a 6 weeks.

Texas gets to play @tenn and then OU next week after playing OSU.

Georgia’s schedule may be the “weakest” out of the 3 but they still play Florida, alabama, and ole miss.

No schedule is the SEC is going to be easy with the new 9 game schedule

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GREEN IS DONE FOR A WHILE WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!HE IS HUMAN AND NOT SUPERMAN

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Ok alter…

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Surprisingly im more concerned with Mississippi State than I am with ATM

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You should be. Arnett is a legit DC and they’ve got a hell of a QB. Really glad that one is at home.

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Just lose and put us out of our misery

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He should win this year with a 50 million dollar roster and number 1 portal

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Casual. The only top P5 teams replacing 50 players are ones going through coaching changes. This is not even remotely the same as dropping $50 mil on top of an established and experienced roster.

Mario Craver is a damn good receiver. Reed still struggles with accuracy and consistently making the correct decision.

I told a coworker and fan earlier in the week that Im not happy that were in a must win game in week 4 but im also not worried.

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Indiana was a build. They were 11-2 the season before they won it.

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Indiana was also an anomaly, even in the NIL era. Cignetti brought 13 core players from his 11-1 James Madison team, kept veteran Indiana players, and targeted older, experienced players in the portal every window. Their national championship team last year started 17 4th, 5th, and 6th year guys. They averaged 23.2 years old. Surprisingly, Miami’s starters last year were slightly older, averaging 23.3+ years old. (Michigan’s ‘23 NC team’s average starters’ age was 22.1 years old, “overwhelmingly made up of 4th- and 5th-year seniors.”)

Lane didn’t do that. Largely because of Ole Miss’s playoff run. I think he only brought 5 Ole Miss players (Princewill, Dottery, Watkins, Harper, and our punter), which makes a huge difference as far as ability to establish a culture. He’s had to teach 100 guys how to practice, how to prepare, how to focus, expectations, etc…And the LSU players he kept were mostly younger guys with multiple years of eligibility coming off a 7-6 season. Hell, even Weeks still has another year. And he focused mainly on portal guys who also had/have multiple years of eligibility remaining.

Their 2026 LSU team’s starters average between 21.8 and 22.2 years old. And the entire roster averages 20.12 years old (ranking 103rd in FBS). This was never going to be a national championship winning team unless we just had abnormally good injury luck. And so far, we’ve had pretty bad injury luck.

We just don’t have the developed, veteran depth. And we’re counting on some true freshman DTs, which is not a position where you want to be counting on true freshmen. Freaks as they may be, OL tends to be the oldest position group, so our 18-year-olds are going mostly against 4th and 5th year 21-23 year olds. That matters.

So people can throw around the “$50 million roster” term all they want, but they’re either not well informed or intellectually dishonest. That bought us a really good roster, but likely not a perfect roster, and likely not a championship roster. It costs more to get players from other schools than it does to retain guys or bring them with you. I think the hope was to get lucky and sneak into the playoffs this year, and make a legit run in the ‘27 season and beyond.