re: The Advocate's football preview: Breaking down LSU's 2018 schedule

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5 top 25 teams is a very tough schedule.

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Of course it is. No one said it wasn't. Why do you guys take things to extremes. Just because it isn't the toughest doesn't mean it's not difficult, but you get almost all of the toughest games at home.

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Auburn plays in the same division, except they play

Washington (neutral)
@ Miss St
@ UGA
@ Bama

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That's close. LSU has to play said Auburn team (#9) whereas Auburn has to play LSU (#25). Both of those schedules are really tough.

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A&M plays

Clemson
@ Bama
@ State
@ Auburn

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That's not tougher. LSU has an extra "tough" game in Georgia. Clemson is an extremely tough game though.

It's YOUR opinion that it isn't the toughest. That doesn't make it true. You are saying it as if it is fact. Instead of those 4 games you threw in there, lsu has five, and again, no one plays 4 top 9 teams plus Ms State, and then Florida and a&m on the road. Few places are tougher to play than Auburn btw, for multiple reasons. No one is saying that Auburn or a&m have easy schedules, but the fact is neither plays FOUR top 10 teams.

You are forgetting the "extra" top 10 team lsu has though. Yes, lsu plays well usually at home vs bama, but I'd guess over the last 30 years they have more wins at bama than at home. Now Auburn is a different animal....tough to win there.

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You are forgetting the "extra" top 10 team lsu has though

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You’re forgetting that those teams play LSU as well.

You keep talking about the number of top 10 teams we play vs Auburn and TAM, but are we not an extra “tough” game for them, despite our prove it ranking? Are we a gimmie for teams like Auburn all of a sudden?

Is that a game those teams and fans point to as a sure W?


When comparing schedules with Auburn, I’d say take our game out and compare the remainder, because at least in my opinion that game is equally tough for both teams looking at it in the offseason with a slight bump for the home team.


That leaves three top 3 teams for each, with Auburn’s neutral site a tougher opponent and the other two on the road and our other two at home. MSU home for us as well vs away for Auburn.

I didn't even bring that up because IMO LSU is in a prove it situation until further notice. But, I have a feeling once the season gets going, people are going to see LSU as a tougher game than they are right now.

I'm not forgetting anything. I'm stating facts. No other team in the country plays 4 preseason top 9 teams. Eod

That's the point my friend of reason. To me, yes the schedule is difficult, but it lends more of an oppurtunity than a detriment. Go win those games with the new and improved roster and coaching staff and prove everyone wrong.

I just don't think it's by far and away the most difficult schedule in the conference, much less the nation, nor do I believe it's overly harder than what LSU has played in the past or will play in the future.

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I'm not forgetting anything. I'm stating facts. No other team in the country plays 4 preseason top 9 teams.

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Yet your “facts” are based on nothing more than polls of opinion.

It is not a “fact” that those are indeed the best 9 teams in the country. For various reasons, those teams have been selected by various people to represent a starting point with ambiguous criteria.


If LSU beats Miami and Auburn loses to Washington week 1, LSU could actually go into that matchup ranked higher than Auburn in week 3, and Auburn would certainly no longer be a top 10 team at the very least.

Would that mean it is a “fact” that LSU then has a tougher schedule?

Okay, so why list Auburn's or a&m schedule. It is all opinion. Clemson could suck. Washington probably does suck. Bama? Scrubs. I know, instead of using a benchmark from the national media, we will use your opinion to rank teams. Better?