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Miami Herald
11 hours ago
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- Miami Herald
LSU Football Preview 2025: Tigers Season Prediction, Win Total Projection, Top Players
LSU Tigers Key to the Season Make more big defensive is LSU. It has among the best defensive backs in the country, but they're young and/or new. Last year's secondary wasn't awful, but the pass defense got roasted by USC at the beginning of the season, was ripped up in the win over Baylor in the end, and it only picked off six Tigers were 6-0 when coming up with an interception, and 3-4 when they didn't. LSU Tigers Key Player Tyree Adams, OT Soph.A good recruit - but not among the elite of the elite - Adams stepped up last year as a backup when he wasn't starting at guard. Now the 6-7, 310-pounder will be tried out at left he has to do is replace Will Campbell while keeping Garrett Nussmeier from getting popped.X CFN, Fiu | CFN Facebook | Bluesky Fiu, CFN2025 LSU PreviewLSU Offense BreakdownLSU Defense Breakdown LSU Tigers Top Transfer, Biggest Transfer Loss Top Transfer In: Patrick Payton, EDGE Sr.A tall, skinny pass rusher when he came to Florida State, he's always had the athleticism and upside, and then he filled out and became a terror with 16 sacks and 32 tackles for loss over the last three seasons. He should be an All-SEC star at one of the LSU Transfer Out: CJ Daniels, WR started his career as a star at Liberty, averaging over 18 yards per catch with 21 touchdowns in his 106-catch four-year run. He came to LSU and was fine, making 42 grabs for 480 yards. The Tiger receiving corps is more than fine, but it's losing a veteran who should light it up for Miami. LSU Tigers Key Game at Clemson, Aug. 30USC 27, LSU 20 … Florida State 45, LSU 24 … Florida State 24, LSU 23 … UCLA 38, LSU 27 … Mississippi State 44, LSU 34 …LSU has lost five straight season openers since the epic 2019 national championship season, and each one all but ruined any national title hopes before things got going. Florida is coming up two weeks later, and a trip to Ole Miss is still up in Clemson, LSU.- 2025 LSU Schedule Breakdown LSU Tigers Top 10 Players 1. Garrett Nussmeier, QB Sr.2. Whit Weeks, LB Jr.3. Patrick Payton, EDGE Sr.4. Harold Perkins, Jr. LB Jr.5. Aaron Anderson, WR Jr.6. Mansoor Delane, CB Sr.7. Ashton Stamps, CB Soph.8. Jack Pyburn EDGE Sr.9. Nic Anderson, WR Jr.10. Barion Brown, WR/KR Sr. LSU Tigers 2024 Fun Stats - LSU Scoring: 2nd Quarter 147, 3rd Quarter 69- Sacks: LSU 34 for 214 yards, Opponents 15 for 126 yards- Fumbles: Opponents 21 (lost 8), LSU 10 (lost 5) LSU Tigers 2025 Season Prediction, Win Total, What Will Happen There are just enough unavoidable landmines to prevent this from being a dominant run, but it's not a hard enough schedule to ask for anything less than a 10-2 record and a trip to the College Football Arkansas, Florida, and South Carolina won't be easy, but those three are in Baton Rouge, so …At Alabama, at Clemson, at Oklahoma, at Ole Miss, Texas A&M. Those five games are the problem. Go 4-1, and LSU is in the College Football Playoff. Go 3-2, and it gets dicey. 2-3, and forget it. LSU will do well in the big battles, but it'll biff one of those home games, either to Florida or South Carolina, to be just on the CFP outside looking The LSU Win Total At … 8.5Likely Wins: Louisiana Tech, SE Louisiana, WKU50/50 Games: at Alabama, Arkansas, at Clemson, Florida, at Oklahoma, at Ole Miss, South Carolina, Texas A&M, at VanderbiltLikely Losses: No projected sure-thing losses 2025 LSU PreviewLSU Offense BreakdownLSU Defense Breakdown © 2025 The Arena Group Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
Miami Herald
11 hours ago
- Sport
- Miami Herald
LSU Defense Preview 2025: The Best Defense Yet Under Brian Kelly
The LSU defense fell off the map in 2020. It hasn't been that bad over the last four years, but it hasn't been able to pop back to the Tiger defense of the recent past. Two years ago, the Tigers were 108th in the nation in yards per game allowed. Last year was better. It wasn't great, but moving up to 61st in total defense was a solid step. After allowing 30 points or more eight times in 2023, the Tigers gave up that many or more four times in needs to be more tackles for loss, and a few more third down stops would be nice, but as long as this bunch can hold serve to let the offense do its thing, it'll be fine. - The line is going through some changes, and that might end up ramping up the pass rush even more. Patrick Payton (Florida State) is an NFL-caliber edge rusher on one side, Jack Pyburn (Florida) made 60 tackles with four tackles for loss last year for the Gators, and Jimari Butler (Nebraska) came up with 7.5 sacks and 16 tackles for loss over the last two talent in place from last year's team, too. Gabriel Reliford is a rising star prospect on the end, and the sophomore tackle combination of Ahmad Breaux and Dominick McKinley is good enough to grow into the gig. 6-6, 355-pound Sydir Mitchell (Texas) is coming in to bring the mass. - How quickly can Harold Perkins Jr. get back up to speed? When he's right, he's a top 15-caliber NFL prospect and one of the best pass rushers in America, but he's coming off a torn ACL that cost him almost all of last Weeks is back after leading the team with 125 tackles with 3.5 sacks and ten tackles for loss, and West Weeks is a fifth-year senior who can fill in at one of the outside spots, if needed. Davhon Keys - who came up with a pick six in the bowl win over Baylor - is a 230-pounder who can work inside or out. - It's LSU. The cornerbacks are good, helped by the addition of Mansoor Delane (Virginia Tech), who made 146 tackles with six interceptions with 16 broken up passes over the last three Stamps was a broken-up-pass machine last season, batting away 14 to to along with 51 tackles, but the real star of the near future should be DJ Pickett, a 6-4, 190-pound five-star recruit who might be the best corner in this year's safeties are terrific, too. Javian Toviano, PJ Woodland, and Dashawn Spears had a nice freshman seasons as they got their feet wet, and now the stats will come as they take over the bigger roles. The talent is there to be great Prediction, Win Total, Keys to Season2025 LSU PreviewLSU Offense Breakdown © 2025 The Arena Group Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
