LSU Football . . .

Football season has begun.  LSU started with Wisconsin, fairly even match on neutral grounds in Houston, TX.  First half of the game went to Wisconsin, the second half went to LSU.  And LSU won by coming from behind.  Coming from behind is not a trait of LSU, usually when they get a couple touch downs behind, it is all over but the shouting.  Perhaps this come from behind win shows some character in the team.

The next two games gave the Tigers a warm up, a fine tuning of the defense, an exercise for the offense.  Since the second half of the Wisconsin game, the whole team's character has changed from an also ran to a winner.  Both teams were not of the caliber that the SEC teams are but they were good teams in their classification, very capable and had good stats before running into LSU.  Things changed when those two teams played in Tiger Stadium.  The two teams had moved into the big leagues when the played in Baton Rouge.  Over a hundred thousand fans looked down upon them, a hundred thousand roaring LSU fans.  There is meaning to "Tiger Bait."

Tune time is over, LSU faces Mississippi State this weekend.  The first SEC game for the Tigers.  South Carolina has already faced Texas A&M (and lost).  South Carolina comes out the box and faced Georgia and won.  That was a great game and come back for the Game Cocks.  And once again the opening premier game for Georgia resulted in a loss.

So now it is not time for LSU to stumble.  They have what is referred to by Coach Miles as a "quality opponent" Saturday in Baton Rouge.  Both teams are unbeaten so far but only LSU has faced a tough Big Ten team while Miss State has been chewing up lower class teams.  So both of them are in for the tough ride of facing their first SEC team.

It is ironic but all the top rated SEC teams this week are from the SEC West division.  A division some say is a conference to itself.  Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, LSU and yes, even Miss State are contenders, not so in the SEC East.  Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Tennessee are all weak sisters in their division.  Florida is so so, Georgia and South Carolina already have been discussed.  Missouri has not been discussed and is a dark horse in the SEC East, over shadowed by Georgia and South Carolina but they are coming on strong.  Auburn and Ole Miss are power houses in West division.

Its gonna be a good week for football.  Beginning to cool off a little bit.  A lot of attention will be drawn to Baton Rouge to see who moves up and who moves down.  Miss State has not beaten LSU since 1999 - that is a long stretch.  And their coach now knows LSU well and will be really prepared even though he has to face the Tigers before 102,321 screaming spectators.  Some will be from Mississippi but the vast overwhelming majority will be Tigers and the noise will reflect it.

Geaux Tigers!