The Current State of LSU Football

It's impossible to dispute that the win against Texas A&M was a great one.  The defense played it's best game of the year.  The defensive line did an incredible job of putting pressure on Johnny Manziel all afternoon/night.  Zach Mettenberger didn't play his best game, but he found ways to get the ball to Odell Beckham and Jarvis Landry when it mattered.

The Running game was downright awesome.  It's always a thing of beauty when a team is able to run the ball, despite the fact that the other team knows it's coming, and is still be able to churn out huge chunks of yards.  That's what happened in this particular game.  

Everything in this game was beautiful.  It was a great win.  The question I now raise is, where was this LSU Tiger team against Ole Miss?  The loss to Ole Miss was every bit as bad as this win was great.  These two games only prove how inconsistent LSU has always been under Les Miles.

I couldn't help but feel rather frustrated after this particular win, because had we beaten Ole Miss, which in all actuality, isn't a very tall order, this win would have been enormous.  If our defense had put up a reasonable fight against Georgia, this win would be huge. 

I'm now ashamed to say that we're at a point where conceding the SEC West to the University of Alabama is a given.  I hate saying this, but the butt-whooping that Alabama gave us was what many Tiger fans unfortunately have come to expect, which is a shame.

Imagine how enormous this win would be, if it had come off of a bye week after defeating the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.  

Many Tiger fans will say, "What about the win against Auburn?"  

The Tigers looked like world beaters against Auburn, and that win would be even more enormous, had we won just one of the games that we lost.  It leaves you asking, "What if?"

We've already lost Louisiana native, Landon Collins, to Alabama.  I've found myself asking, "What if he had been patrolling the LSU secondary against Georgia?"  Maybe we would have won.

West Monroe native, Cameron Robinson, has already committed to Alabama.  It use to be a given that all the West Monroe boys would eventually become Tigers.  He would definitely help our O-Line in that crucial battle of the trenches against Bama, which they dominated in the last meeting.  I hope we don't find ourselves asking "What if?"  

Kenny Bell was a Louisiana prospect that numerous universities wanted.  What if he had been our third receiver, and Kadron Boone been our forth?  

"What if...?"  has unfortunately become a rather frequent question asked by Tiger fans under Les Miles' tenure as head football coach at LSU.