Nashville,
Clanga absolutely pummeled LSU last time we went there, so if you're looking for upset alerts.....
Your talk about UGA gets to a more philosophical point I've wondered about Georgia for a while now. Fromm is good. There's maybe not really an alpha dog WR like an AJ Green, but there's guys who are good. Swift is a dangerous back, there's probably others. David Pollack said in his interview at LSU the other day that UGA is the last SEC team left in the SEC, and I've been thinking kind of the same thing. If you have UGA's talent and ability to do certain things that they can do, I'm not so sure why you wouldn't try to maximize your possessions and plays. That usually means going a little bit more pedal to the metal. Instead UGA kind of plays Tressel-ball and seems like they're trying to shorten the game up on opponents. The less your sample size, the greater the chance that an inferior team will pull something out. With a greater sample size, it becomes statistically harder for the "better" team to lose. i.e., if you're UGA, playing USCe, hypothetically you should want to run as many plays as possible, because the fewer plays there are, the greater the chance something wonky happens. And it probably did. I believe there is a time to be a RTDB team, but I think the Dawgs lean too heavily into that mindset sometimes.
LSU is a bit of an enigma on defense right now. They are the second best defense on a ypp basis in the SEC, behind Missouri. Second best in rushing ypc behind UGA, second best in comp% allowed behind Mizzou, and 5th best in passing ypa. But you're right that something is funky in the smell test. The advanced stats see it too, as neither SP+ nor FEI have too high an opinion of the Tiger defense. Somehow, despite all the ypp stats, they don't get off the field on 3rd down like they should. I believe they allow 47$ 3rd down conv, which is not good. I'm inclined to blame it on a subpar pass rush.