Three weeks ago, LSU was the SEC’s only unbeaten team. Leonard Fournette was a near-lock to win the Heisman Trophy. And coach Les Miles was headed toward a potential Coach of the Year award if he could just beat Alabama.
Instead, the Tigers (7-3) are in danger of closing the season on a four-game losing streak and playing in some miserable bowl game.
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The voters in college football’s two major polls codified what we already know Sunday by excluding LSU from the top 25.
Miles? His job is in jeopardy, according to reports. Fournette? He may not even garner an invite as a Heisman Trophy finalist. And the Tigers? They’ll have to beat a middle-class Texas A&M team just to match last season’s win total.
Times have changed quickly in Baton Rouge.
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.
