re: Is this year a bust if we don’t make 12 team playoff?

Every year from here on is a bust if we don’t make the 12 team playoff.

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Is this year a bust if we don’t make 12 team playoff?

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In a 12 team format, any year we don't make the playoff is a bust.

Yes and I think we need to win at least one playoff game. Just really hoping we get the chance to play in Tiger Stadium.

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I'm optimistic. I expect LSU to make the playoffs. It would definitely be a disappointment if LSU does not make the playoffs, but I'm not sure if I'd say a bust because we project as a 10-14 team due to a few unprovens.

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I'm with you. Like others have said, the preseason predictions from analysts have kind of been all over the map. That's typical of a team that still has questions to answer. And as you pointed out, while there are plenty of reasons for optimism, the OL appears to be the only certainty.

A true bust to me would be one of the teams in the preseason top-5 getting upset a few times and missing out. That's not us right now.

If have to say yes.

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Is this year a bust if we don’t make 12 team playoff?

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Less than 10 regular season wins is a bust.

Moving forward any year not in the playoff will be considered a bad year. New nature of college football

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That’s not exactly what he said, but hell, we “competed” for a championship his 1st year. I remember very clearly we played Georgia in the SEC Championship Game. Some of you seem to think the word “compete” really means “win.”

And going by some arbitrary year without any context is stupid. What if USC wins the Big 10? What if OU goes undefeated and wins the SEC? We don’t know how good the teams on our schedule are actually gonna be. I guarantee Bama fans would have said their ‘19 season would be a failure if they didn’t win the NC. And they didn’t even make the playoffs. Nobody saw Burrow and co. coming.

And what if (God forbid, knock on all the wood), Nuss goes down with a knee in the 1st series against USC like Masson did against FSU? 9-3 with Rickie Collins leading our team is a failure?

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There are more than a few morons here who think just because BK said something about year 3 means it MUST be true...or else.

Like you said, LSU went from two straight seasons of under .500 football (the worst two year stretch in nearly 30 years) to a spot where if they would have beaten A&M at the end of 2022, LSU would have LITERALLY been playing UGA for a spot in the playoffs. LSU was #5 in CFP poll before the A&M game...with OSU ranked ahead of them having already lost that day and not going to the Big 10 Championship game.

So if "competing for a championship" is the standard, LSU was there at the end of year 1...they just lost the games to move forward towards that goal.

no. Unproven defense might keep us out of playoffs. But 9-3 would not be a bust but will also keep us out of playoffs.

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I concur. A down year by our standards should be making the playoffs as a 10-12 seed.

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If people don't understand, which many of you seem to not be by thinking this way, making the 12th seed would mean finishing no less than 12th at the end of the regular season every single year. We do not play in the ACC. We could legit get a year where we have to play Bama, UGA, Texas, Oklahoma, and an improving Tennessee and Auburn. Let alone what crazy first game opponent LSU schedules itself. Saying even on a down year we should finish 10-2 is crazy considering, THAT HAS NEVER BEEN THE NORM EVER AT LSU.

A down year should be 8-4/9-3. These schedules will ensure you play every team twice in 4 years, so thank God in 2026 when we play UGA, we'll have a loaded roster. With what Hugh Freeze has done in the past and what he is doing in recruiting now, same with Tennessee, there will be a shite ton of loaded teams in the immediate future. What if Florida fires Napier and gets Lane Kiffin? Have you seen DJ Lagway? Do you know what Kiffin could do with Florida talent? He already has the transfer portal thing down, what if he can now stack elite Florida talent on a yearly basis too?

So many of you have a micro view on CFB in general. So many of you have tunnel vision for LSU and don't pay attention to things on the horizon for even the SEC.

I don't think this is a down year. Actually, i think the whole country is sleeping heavy on the potential of LSU, and thanks to the way the schedule is set up, if we get through USC with a win. and it's not some crazy end of game heart attack finish, the rest of the way should be a 2 loss AT MOST season. Next year will likely be a rebuilding type of year and hopefully Nuss has done enough to leave after 2024 and Underwood develops in 2025 to prepare for a 2026 and 2027 back to back NC run.