Stay off my lawn ... so I can lose to Troy

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Stay off my lawn Orgeron loses to a 20 pt dog Maybe we can finally crack Bolivia
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Zoltanrules

September 30th, 2017 at 11:14 PM ^

It is a huge upset in name but Troy competed closely with LSU before and cracked the top 25 last year. I'm sure there will be a couple future NFL players on this year's squad.

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buddha

October 1st, 2017 at 3:36 AM ^

Since the BCS has started, the SEC has had 5(!!) different teams win either the BCS or Playoff. That's nuts...yes, Alabama is obviously King right now, but the SEC - and different teams - have been great during the last 20 years. To say otherwise is silly. Yes, they obviously look vulnerable this year, but the SEC remains the best until the Big 10 and others can consistently beat them.



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EGD

October 1st, 2017 at 10:06 AM ^

Yeah, conference strength is always cyclical. The SEC was really strong from around the mid to late 2000s up until a couple years ago. But that league has definitely come back to the pack over the past few seasons. There's a remarkable degree of parity across P5 conferences these days, in fact--each league seems to have 1-3 elite teams, a handful of solid teams after that, then some mediocre teams and a few real dregs. Arguably the SEC is actually the worst P5 league right now because there really appear to be only two really good teams in Alabama and Georgia, a lot of mediocrity, and Mizzou.

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treetown

October 1st, 2017 at 10:30 AM ^

Population density. Population growth. Shifts in where the pool of younger people (who have kids) go.

The midwest (Big Ten) was the big powerhouse due to all of these factors. The western pennsylvania valleys used to produce some of the top QBs (guys like Namath, Montana, Marino, etc).

USC under John McKay was a dominant national power.

But nothing is permanent - live long enough you'll see everything again, we might even see a top team from the northeast one day. 

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BIGBLUEWORLD

September 30th, 2017 at 11:34 PM ^

I'm oficially inviting Les Miles to come watch a Michigan football game.

He would enjoy visiting his alma mater.

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WolverineHistorian

October 1st, 2017 at 12:22 AM ^

I remember many games under Les where LSU would get severely outplayed but somehow pull a miracle out of their ass. If Les were coaching tonight, I think LSU scores on that last drive after a deflected pass bounces off another player's helmet and right into the hands of another receiver who runs 50 yards for the game winning score...right in front of the 225 fans still left in the stands.

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BlueinLansing

October 1st, 2017 at 2:27 AM ^

Since 1980 my impression is LSU fans have hated every coach they ever had, except maybe Arnsbarger and they probably would have turned on him had he not left to be AD at Florida.  They probably were ok with Saban but I remember a lot of complaints even then.

 

Before Saban and Myles, LSU had a string of meh coaches who were chewed up by the SEC meat grinder.

 

 

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Perkis-Size Me

October 1st, 2017 at 8:16 AM ^

I get that there weren’t a ton of obvious Home run candidates last year outside Herman, but in what world was LSU thinking that Ed Orgeron was the answer to its problems?

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1VaBlue1

October 1st, 2017 at 8:50 AM ^

I get why LSU didn't necessarily want a bidding war with Texas for Herman.  But how do you give multiple-failed Coach O a $12M buyout on an $18M contract?  Seriously, what the hell??

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nat

October 1st, 2017 at 10:30 AM ^

At least they are adept at not scheduling the good schools vs bama. To state the obvious Bama plays only one of the other three decent SEC teams this year, conspicuously avoiding the better two of those decent teams (Florida and Georgia), and no decent out of conferencen opponents (okay they get some credit for attempting to schedule a decent team with FSU) while Michigan hungers for tough games, again. New this week Saban must have realized this also and now wants you to know he isn't trying to run up the score.

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