BOL Round Table

That's probably as accurate as any after week one.

If we play lsu yesterday they knock one of our qbs out of the game and eventually wear down our stout defense. Our d is going to keep us in every game. But, lsu had every excuse to turn in a poor performance yesterday.

They were missing their starting qb, most explosive offensive player, and their best o-linemen and still took it to Oregon. They are massive in the trenches. Have big physical wr and db's. They are going to be hard to handle this year.

1. LSU
2/3. Bama/OU
4. Stanford
5. Wisconsin
6. Boise St.
7. Arkansas
8. Florida St.
9. OK St.
10. TAMU

Some people choose not to look at things like that. ;) How many yards did we have passing in the NC game against Texas? We must have sucked bad!!

Just remember that Oregon sux before you go giving a lot of credit to LSU. Same goes for UGA. They suck. Boise could beat the bottom 6 of the SEC but not the top 5 or 6 in the conference.

AU won 22-19 on a last sec. fg & had the best player in football on both sides of the ball. LSU beat the piss outta Oregon with neither. That's a pretty impressive victory imo. Bottomline LSU is gonna be pretty good as the season moves along imo.

LSU's passing game wasn't a huge priority last night. They knew they could run & play good defense & win. & that's exactly what they did.

...and, critically, they DID. They didn't dominate Oregon; they played great along the defensive front seven, benefited from poor Oregon ball control (true freshman De'Anthony Thomas, forced into service, was responsible for two of the Ducks' fumbles) and decision making (see: Kenjon Banner, fill-in punt returner), and played lousy, erratic offense.

I'm not saying anything about who is better than who right now: I'm merely suggesting that LSU did not look very good yesterday, and Oregon managed to look worse. NEITHER team looked anywhere close to deserving a top 5 ranking; Oregon frankly looked incompetent on their own merits.