Pair of LSU Tigers Get Recognized by the SEC

But they have to prove on the field that they are capable of winning the SEC and make the college football playoff. Far from an easy cupcake game, Jacksonville State actually led 20-13 with just over 5 minutes to go.

Nasca lost her husband, Joel, to the disease in 2011, and her family friend Dr. Larry Ferachi, who served as a team doctor for the Tigers for many years, passed away from prostate cancer in 2012. But generally, those losses don’t happen to championship contenders.

– Northern Illinois at No. 1 Ohio State (ABC, 3:30 p.m.): The MAC rose up last week with a few surprises – Bowling Green over Maryland, Toledo over Arkansas – but this might be asking too much.

HOME ADVANTAGE: The home team has won 13 of the past 15 meetings.

[Culpepper: The nation laughs at the SEC]. Alabama quarterback Blake Barnett (6) works through drills during football practice, Wednesday, September 16, 2015, at the Thomas-Drew Practice Fields in Tuscaloosa, Ala. However, the F+ rankings are still weighting preseason projections and expectations.

If Auburn can score 24, I feel comfortable that we will win the game.

LSU Tigers running back Leonard Fournette (7) runs the ball during the second half of the game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Davis Wade Stadium.

Auburn QB Jeremy Johnson can’t turn the football over, either.

[The Top 25 story lines heading into Week 3].

In a nationally-televised game against Auburn, LSU will wear helmet stickers with a blue ribbon and “Slive” written across the ribbon. This after coming into the season with some very positive experience as a backup.

It also marked the sixth 100-yard game for Fournette and the third straight dating back to previous year . First, Johnson is a pick off machine, and that running game can’t take it to next level, as it used to torment defenses in the last two seasons.

[Coordinator costs climb for title-hungry programs].

Peyton Barber has run for 115 and 125 yards, respectively, in the first two games of the season.

Having those players back (even at less than 100 percent) would be huge for Auburn. Just putting him in some more comfortable situations. “We struggled there early past year “. And LSU had given up 1,136 yards in those two games – another Miles low.

It seemed as though the game against Louisville could’ve been a fluke- first game jitters perhaps. LSU’s task will be to tempt him into bad decisions and keep Duke Williams (five catches, 62 yards) from going off. They held every other team on the schedule to less than 352 yards except for Florida. We know we haven’t played up to our standard, but we’re still 2-0 and we haven’t played as good as we want to play, so we know we can only go up from here. The one good thing about Auburn’s performance is I couldn’t find a line, so I didn’t include it in my predictions.

– Anyone remember the last time an athletic director was dismissed at one school (Texas) and a coach suspended at another (Rutgers) during a season?

With several veterans at less than full strength, Auburn relied on young players to make plays in its win over Jacksonville State.