Texas A&M football vs. LSU Tigers
The returns out of camp for LSU have... not been promising. Garrett Nussmeier has apparently not learned how to throw an accurate ball yet, even though he still has as huge of an arm as ever. Harold Perkins is still playing inside linebacker. In short, Brian Kelly is still, in fact, the coach.
LSU has not won at Kyle Field since Obama was in office. That game, a weird, back-and-forth, high-scoring contest to end a very strange year for the Aggies, is far in the rearview mirror. Since then, the Tigers have lost in one of the greatest college football games of all time at Kyle, looked absolutely horrendous in 2020, and fallen as a top-6 team to a 4-7 Aggie squad—and not by a close margin.
Whatever juju they had on the Aggies is long gone, in other words. Texas A&M football will be facing a Tiger squad now minus Mike Denbrock, Jayden Daniels, Malik Nabers, and Brian Thomas. That's a lot to replace.
Of course, the OL should still be fantastic—but so should the Aggie defensive line. This one will be a struggle from the beginning for the Tigers, and I think A&M will coast to an easy win here, putting them squarely in the CFP discussion—and possibly conference championship talks. The Aggies move to 8-0.