I was looking at LSU's early schedule this morning, and though I realized I probably won't remember this year's games any better than I remember the last several years', the early slate should still be interesting, even if I don't care much.
Week 1 - Clemson - that should be interesting just for being a recently successful P5 team for an opener. And there will probably be a lot of curiosity about what LSU looks like under Kiffin.
Week 3 - Ole Miss - I expect the national interest level will be up for that one, not to mention the two fanbases. If Oxford treats Kiffin the way we treated Saban when he returned to Death Valley, he's in for an epic heckling.
Week 4 - Texas A&M - always interesting, and iirc, they're the team who caused the admin to fire Brian Kelly, so that's something of a story-line.
On the same webpage I was looking at last year's games and I can't believe how many of these games I don't remember. I never thought there would come a time when I didn't remember which teams we played on which years, or who won. For example, I see we played Vanderbilt last year, and Houston in the bowl game, and lost to both. All I could say to that is "That sounds right, from my general impression of last year." Also we appear to have played Florida very early, and I was like WTF? What's that about?
I'm pretty sure it's not because I'm old or because the team has been mediocre or poor. I remember details of many awful seasons, so it's not just bad seasons or failing memory. No, the fact that I vividly recall seasons up to the point that the sport just started leaving me behind signifies why I haven't cared enough to remember these games, even though I still watch them.
So by this time next year, I don't expect to necessarily remember these games or their results, but at the moment I can say that at the time I watch them, they'll probably be "interesting."
