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Jack Mashburn

Nah, Jordan Travis's injury is a tough break.FSU looked like doo doo in the ACC conference championship.

If JD5 beats the back-to-back CFP champion in Georgia and looked like a Heisman frontrunner doing it, there is 0 chance the committee would leave LSU out, hypothetically speaking.

We're an 8-4 team.

Just sit back and enjoy the ride because, based on Lane's track record, it's only up from here.

All I know is we can’t lose to Tommy Moffitt three years in a row. That’s a conversation nobody who let him walk wants to have.

To this day, that Jarvis catch doesn't get the appreciation it deserves. Unreal play.

Respectfully disagree that no one saw 2019 coming. The roster was a kerosene bomb wrapped in dynamite. What we didn't know was that Joe was a more-than-formidable flame.

If you think LSU is going to win this game comfortably, you might want to see a doctor.

When Ole Miss has been bad—like in 2017 and 2019—the crowd wasn't much of a factor, and LSU handled business comfortably.

But look at 2013 and 2015. We had experienced quarterbacks, more talent top to bottom, and still walked into a feverish Oxford crowd and lost both games.

We'll just pretend 2021 never happened.

In 2023 and 2025, LSU should've won. We were certainly more talented than Ole Miss in 2023. I'll put that one on BK and a hungry road crowd.

My point is this: the 2013, 2015, 2023, and 2025 teams all had more experience in their systems than this year's team. I'd argue all those teams also had more overall talent than this year's team (on offense in particular, excluding '25), plus A COACH WHO WASN'T IN HIS THIRD GAME at a new school. Ole Miss isn't significantly worse than last year—the best team they've ever had—and this game is arguably more hyped than any of those previous trips to Oxford combined.

That's why I think this will be an extremely difficult challenge for a first-year coach with a new quarterback coming off injury who, so far, hasn't exactly looked comfortable on the road in an SEC environment.

I mean, can we step back as a fan base and acknowledge that LSU is 2–5 in the last seven games in Oxford? We have struggled for whatever reason.

I've always been a glass-half-full LSU fan, but after last season, there has definitely been a funk around the program. I believe that's been cleaned up, and this game is so massive to eradicate lingering residue. It will set the trajectory of the season and the program. It's one of the biggest games LSU has played in years.

I get it, transfer portal cures everything. We filled holes. I, too, love to put blind faith in transactional plug-and-play players, but until I see them play two full games together as a TEAM, I don't know how anyone can be so confident about going on the road in a hostile environment against one of the best teams in the league.

It’s really easy to rip on Koki, but I kind of enjoy his questions. He’s a bit of a wildcard. He may ask something really insightful and receive a thorough, thought-out answer, or he may ask something completely out of left field that puts the interviewee off-kilter. But it's not bad for the media to be brash. You need the guys who are bold enough or incompetent enough to ask the tough questions. He ultimately keeps the LSU discord alive and well.

But it's not about the radio listeners. It's about the 20-second sound bite during THE BIG PLAY that, in today's culture, is played on repeat across social media. I completely agree. Great voice if I was about to tune into Sirius XM and listen to Coltrane, but when you represent a school with such passionate fans, you need to match that.

tell em baw!

I haven't found one member of the McMen that isn't a raging homo.