Forget #1 This Season LSU! Why LSU Has No Chance in 2008! Les Miles is a great head coach, and LSU's 3rd and 4th strings could probably make a run at winning the Mountain West or Conference USA, but this will not be the year for LSU to make another title run. LSU will have a great team, and talent should be a top 10 or even a top 5 team, but they have absolutely zero chance at winning the national title in 2008. I repeat: LSU has ZERO chance at repeating for the title, in no small part because they won't be able to make the title game: and will have stiff competition just to get into a BCS bowl. Starting off, this is not bashing LSU. They will be a great team, but they can't run the table. First of all, LSU only returns 12 starters from last year's team, as 7 LSU players were drafted, and another 4 were picked up as NFL free agents, and that was all before QB Ryan Perrilloux was kicked off the team, including one of the best DT in college football history. Take a look at the players lost. LSU Players Drafted: DT Glenn Dorsey, 1st Round CB Chevis Jackson, 3rd Round RB/FB Jacob Hester, 3rd Round WR Early Doucet, 3rd Round S Craig Steltz, 4th Round QB Matt Flynn, 7th Round TE Keith Zinger, 7th Round Others Lost Graduation/Suspension: OLB Ali Highsmith CB Jonathan Zenon OG Will Arnold RB Alley Broussard QB Ryan Perrilloux These are especially important positions that LSU has to reload on both sides of the ball, and replacing ¾ of your secondary before playing Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia doesn't but you in your best spot. There are only five returning starters on defense, and although LSU will have a great defense, will they be absolutely dominant? In addition, there are serious questions at quarterback and in the secondary. The good news is that most of the back ups who are becoming starters are juniors, meaning they have a lot of experience. Also, four out of five offensive linemen return to what was possibly the best offensive line in the entire nation, so the running game should dominate even with Hester in the pros. Then comes the schedule. While they do get Georgia at home, there is no reason to mark this up as a win. Georgia is arguably the best team in the nation, and if they win out in that brutal schedule, there's no question they go to the title game. Even with one close loss they could still get the nod. The bad news is that this game against Georgia comes after back to back road games to South Carolina and Florida. Add to that Auburn on the road and an SEC title game that would pit them against Florida or Georgia again, and that's just way too much. In any other conference, maybe, but not in the SEC. Don't forget LSU was the first team to get into the title game with two losses, and that only happened because of collapses by many other teams ranked ahead of them. This year that won't happen again, and competition from Ohio State, USC, Virginia Tech, Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and the other usual suspects will make sure no two loss team gets a chance. LSU will have a great team, and I don't see them doing worse than 9-3, or 8-4 if they have horrendous injury issues, but there is no 13-0 season in sight. LSU will be a good team, but national title contender? Not a chance.
 

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