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For us, the November stretch is:

Alabama
Texas
@Tennessee
@Arkansas

I'm counting Arkansas as a win.  At least, we should, and there's no reason not to, even on the road.  

The rest are loseable, but winnable as well.  If I had to guess, @Tennessee will be a L because we've already shown we can't keep it together on the road at Ole Miss and at Kentucky.  Tennessee also has enough talent that they don't need to count on LSU imploding on the road, they're capable of beating LSU with no luck or help.  

Alabama is in LSU's heads, whether or not LSU should win that game, they usually don't.  And Texas just has too much talent....they look like the most talented team in the country to me, and when they play well, I don't think they can be beat.  The question is will they play well....they certainly may not, but I suspect they're going to give us their best game, and that ain't good.  

But I also don't think LSU loses all three, just from a general statistical perspective, LSU "seems" better than a 1-3 team in any given stretch.  I don't know where it will come from, but I think LSU snags one from probably either Alabama or Texas at home to go along with @Arkansas for a 2-2 run, ending 8-4.  

If the guards could manage to look like they belonged in the SEC, that would go a long way toward changing that for the positive.  Center and tackle play have been good.  The guards are still a work in progress.  I don't know if it's a talent thing or it's the ongoing result of mashing together 60+ new guys when OL is a unit that needs time and cohesion above all else.  We'll see how they do against Alabama.  They've had a week off to self-scout and maybe fix some things if indeed things are fixable.  Will be interesting.  I think we're good enough that we're going to make everybody work for it, even if we don't pull it out.  

They might, but I think LSU will need Texas to do what Texas is prone to doing, and fall asleep for a half.  

LSU is a good, and talented team.  But Texas players look elite, physically.  When they're on, there's more NFL talent there than it looks like we have.  

The main two WRs, Coleman and Wingo (I think?) are freaks.  The two starting corners are as well.  LSU isn't going to have seen anything like them before they tangle with that.  And that's not even getting to the lines.  I think LSU's DL can play well against UT's OL, but UT's DL has a real shot of manhandling LSU's OL, as far as what we've seen so far.  

Anyway, that's a week away.  Gotta see what we got for the Gumps first.  If Kiffin is really changing the culture, LSU needs to not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as so many previous Tiger teams have found a way to do.  

Wishing Bama @ LSU kicked off a little later to get a true night game in Death Valley. Either way, this is the game I'm most looking forward to this coming weekend. You know Death Valley will be rocking for this one, and I'm counting on LSU to start the game more motivated than Bama.

Bama has been slumping, with shockingly poor output from their offense @ Tennessee, amassing less than 200 total yards. After such an a limp showing, it's surprising to see Bama ranked as high as #5 in the first College Football Playoff Rankings. And @LSU is not the place to try to recover from a slump.