It might turn out UCLA is really good. Might.
It might turn out that their DL is pretty good, but nowhere as good as LSU made them look. Remember last year's opener when everybody thought maybe Clanga was pretty good because of how they thrashed LSU in the opener? Yeah....no. LSU just sucked.
I don't keep track of things like I used to, or watch like I used to, so I just looked up to see neither of LSU's new coordinators has ever been a coordinator before. That's not done at LSU in the modern era. Off the top of my head, I can't think of Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Auburn, Texas, Ohio State, etc. who hires first time coordinators. I know in Baton Rouge the thinking is this is not the place to learn your craft, it's a job you get when you've put your time in elsewhere. This is why you don't ever see LSU promote position coaches to coordinators. You do it at a place like Bowling Green or a major school, if we can snag one from there, and then you come here. This was highly irregular, and O's ambition to find an up and comer nobody else knows about probably isn't going to pay off.
As for UGA....beats me. All I can say is their defense looked good against a QB I don't think is at the same level Clemson has had the last several years. Not yet anyway. Who will challenge them in the east? I never count out Florida, because as sure as I think the Dawgs can't lose, that's when UF finds a way to make them look like turd in the cocktail party and sticks it to them. Or the inexplicable South Carolina loss, which isn't unheard of and tends to open the door, record-wise, for a team like Florida. On the flip side, if they do meet Alabama in the CG, the Tide QB didn't look on par with the last couple of Gump QBs either. Not yet, anyway. So I don't know. Just basing on general trends, which is not necessarily meaningful, but it's all I got, UGA needs to make some offensive strides because I have serious doubts a defense can hold a clicking Alabama offense to 21 points.