I get it.
It's at LSU, at night, and Gameday will be there. They have all the intangibles in their favor. Against Auburn, we had the intangibles and they were feeling pretty full of themselves. Now our guys will be feeling good about themselves after getting all that media love from beating Auburn.
Trask hasn't played much and he certainly hasn't experienced anything like he's going to see in Red Stick. Our OL hasn't played much and certainly hasn't experienced anything like what they're going to see in Red Stick.
I think our D has demonstrated itself to be legit but true freshman Bo Zitx missed big throws and made bad mistakes Burrow won't.
The only real advantage we have over LSU is we've been in some dogfights. Both Miami and Kentucky (both pretty bad teams at this point) went down to the wire and we showed that we don't panic and we don't quit. LSU hasn't had close games (Texas wasn't that close). So while being "battle tested" is an advantage, struggling against weaker competition isn't a good look so our one advantage doesn't move the needle very much.
That's why the line is where it is.
I'm not a gambler so IDGAF about the line beyond keeping our boys humble and hungry.
It's going to be up to them to prove that they can handle the noise and pressure and that environment. They need to step it up if they expect to win this game. We can't play like we did against Auburn. We have to be better.
Last week, Auburn played its best game against Mississippi State. That was as good as they could play. That game fooled a lot of experts into thinking Auburn was THAT team instead of the team that should have lost to Oregon in week one.
We haven't played our best game yet. Will it come this weekend at LSU? I don't know. That's entirely up to our boys. If it does, we'll be laughing at the experts. If it doesn't, they'll be laughing at us.
Alex.