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Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Two more awards added to JD5’s haul On the eve of the Heisman Trophy ceremony, LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels picked up two more pieces of hardware to add to his 2023 awards. After a quick stop in Baltimore to pick up his Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, Daniels made it to New York to partake in the College Football Awards Show and walked away with both the Davey O’Brien and the Walter Camp awards. For reasons that remain unclear to me, Daniels was named a Walter Camp second-team All-American despite winning the Walter Camp...

Our chance at the Heisman House! | Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports Won a few. Still in the Hunt for others Fist question, has there ever been an explanation as to why Joe Burrow is not in the Heisman House commercials? Does he own some car dealership that isn’t Nissan? Do they film them over one day and did it happen to be Super Bowl Sunday when he was busy taking on the Rams? The closer we get to Saturday night, the more nervous I am getting. It’s a good feeling, I have moved past any bad feelings on the season. We provided a top end talent with top end receivers,...

Tigers flip a top Louisiana prospect at a position of need Now that the calendar has flipped to December and bowl games are still a few weeks out, the college football focus is shifting toward recruiting. The early signing period begins December 20 and LSU took a big step toward bolstering its 2024 class with the addition of defensive lineman Gabriel Reliford out of Evangel Christian Academy. Reliford was previously committed to Texas A&M but backed off after Jimbo Fisher was fired and defensive line coach Elijah Robinson accepted the defensive coordinator job at Syracuse. LSU...

Teams that make me go ooooh Yesterday, I went over the teams that I felt were in the bottom half of the SEC coming into the 2024 season. The upcoming season looks like it’s going to have an uneven split between the top and bottom half. The bottom four teams will be looking to get to regional finals and hope to catch a couple teams on bad days to snatch a ticket to nationals. The top half of the league is a different story. These four teams are all nationals contenders. I wouldn’t be that surprised if all four made it to Fort Worth considering the level of talent on offer...

Matthew Dobbins-USA TODAY Sports Another award for JD5 According to my SOURCES I can now report the following: Jayden Daniels had a great 2023 football season. So much so in fact that Daniels was named the SEC’s offensive player of the year as voted on by the league’s coaches. This isn’t the first honor Daniels has claimed and likely won’t be the last. Daniels is on his way to Baltimore right now to claim the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm award and will then head to New York this weekend for the Heisman. Daniels is also up for the Davey O’Brien, Walter Camp, and...

The teams that make me go hmmm December has arrived, and that means we’re a month out from the start of the 2024 NCAA gymnastics season. 2023 was a wild ride to say the least. LSU climbed their way past a mountain of injuries and setbacks to reach their second Four on the Floor and ninth national final in program history. Kentucky made their second appearance at nationals ever, Alabama missed for the third time ever and Florida finished as national runners-up by over 0.1000 despite putting up the highest score by a second place team in NCAA history. Missouri failed to reach...

Matthew Hinton-USA TODAY Sports The Broyles semifinalist is staying in Baton Rouge Friend of the website and Yahoo’s own Ross Dellenger reported Wednesday morning that LSU and offensive coordinator have reached an agreement on a three-year contract extension. LSU is finalizing a three-year extension to retain offensive coordinator Mike Denbrock, sources tell @YahooSports.Denbrock, a Broyles Award finalist, led the top-ranked offense in the country this season and helped develop QB Jayden Daniels, a Heisman finalist.— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) December 6,...

 LSU Lady Tigers forward Angel Reese (10) embraces LSU Lady Tigers head coach Kim Mulkey after their team s victory against the Virginia Tech Hokies at Pete Maravich Assembly Center. The victory was Mulkey s 700th win. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Hinton | Matthew Hinton-USA TODAY Sports The Tigers get to spend a week preparing for the next game, instead of dealing with lingering questions The No. 7 LSU Tigers women’s basketball team (8-1) spent most of November in a tailspin. After losing to No. 8 Colorado in a shocking upset; LSU ditched its starting lineup,...

Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union / USA TODAY NETWORK Great week to be Ja’Marr Chase and Derek Stingley Jr. While the college football regular season has wrapped up, many LSU alumni are still battling for their playoff lives. Let’s check in on an exciting Week 13 to see how our guys did. Seahawks 35 at Cowboys 41 Jamal Adams had ten tackles and one ugly Twitter spat on the weekend. Damone Clark had four tackles. Damien Lewis guarded. NFLSU Score: 4/10 Chargers 6 at Patriots 0 Jalen Mills and Davon Godchaux each had three tackles. Will Clapp played every snap at...

Looks about right | Photo by Jonathan Bachman/ I like that Kid’s odds It’s officially official. There are four invites. And That Kid is one of them. Saturday the 9th at 7pm CST. I am glad to see Milroe staying home. If he was involved, it meant he pulled votes from the south. My only explanation for Harrison is a legacy invitation as well as being the only candidate the Mid West galvanized around. Remember, this is pod voting, top three tabulations with regions being split out, then rolled up. It is not the Electoral system, but region bias is massive in this thing....

LSU Football Daniels is off to New York That Kid is going to New York. The Heisman Trust announced the four finalists for the award Monday evening and LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels is headed to New York this weekend along with Oregon’s Bo Nix, Washington’s Michael Penix and Ohio State’s Marvin Harrison Jr. Daniels leads the country in basically any offensive category you can think of. He’s tops in total yards (4,946), total touchdowns (50), passing touchdowns (40), plays of 20+ yards (90), yards per passing attempt (11.7), yards per play (10.7), rushing yards...

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports It’s still the Outback Bowl to me! The Advocate has reported that LSU will be playing Wisconsin in Tampa at the ReliaQuest Bowl which was formerly the Outback Bowl. The game will be played on January 1 in Tampa. It’s LSU’s first time back in Tampa since the Tigers beat Iowa 21-14 in the 2013 season. The game will kickoff at noon local time (11 CT) and be broadcasted on ESPN2. LSU and Wisconsin haven’t played since the 2016 season opener when the two played at Lambeau Field as part of a “home and home” series. Wisconsin...

Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports The final four is Michigan vs. Bama and Washington vs. Texas LSU stayed at No. 13 in the final College Football Playoff poll, now we await to see which bowl game LSU gets invited to. Seeing as LSU didn’t play this weekend there was no drama as to whether or not they would move up in the poll. The only thing anybody cared about was what would the final four be and this is how it shakes out after championship Saturday: No. 1 Michigan will take on No. 4 Alabama in the Rose Bowl (4:00 P.M., New Year’s Day, ESPN) No. 2 Washington plays No. 3...

Petre Thomas-USA TODAY Sports The portal officially opens Monday With the regular season at an end, the next phase of the college football calendar begins Monday: the opening of the transfer portal and two Tigers have announced their intentions to enter it. Redshirt sophomore running back Armoni Goodwin was the first LSU player to declare he was entering the transfer portal; sophomore corner Laterrance Welch followed suit a few days later. Goodwin was a top-10 running back coming out of high school and a player that I thought had some serious potential, but injuries...

Matthew Hinton-USA TODAY Sports Angel Reese returns and all is right with the world Stop me when you’ve heard this one before: the LSU women’s basketball team won a massive game against Virginia Tech. In a rematch of last year’s Final Four game, LSU (8-1) beat the Hokies (5-2) 82-64 Thursday night in the PMAC as part of the SEC/ACC Challenge. The game started off precariously as Virginia Tech had a 20-13 lead in the first quarter, but LSU’s defense cranked the intensity up to 11 and the Tigers outscored the Hokies 22-9 in the second quarter. Angel Reese...