{"id":34538,"date":"2014-07-23T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=34538"},"modified":"2014-07-22T15:37:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T20:37:03","slug":"2014-lsu-tigers-team-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/2014-lsu-tigers-team-preview-34538\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 LSU Tigers Team Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

LSU Tigers
\nHead Coach:\u00a0 Les Miles
\n2013-14 Record:\u00a0 10-3, 5-3 Southeastern Conference
\n2013-14 Bowl Result:\u00a0 21-14 win over Iowa in Outback Bowl
\nOdds to Win National Championship:\u00a0 +2142<\/strong><\/p>\n

Returning Starters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Offense:\u00a0 8, Defense:\u00a0 6<\/p>\n

Offense<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The LSU Tigers are one of the frontrunners to win the Southeastern Conference title in 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Tigers return six starters on offense, including four on the offensive line from a unit that put together one of the most productive seasons in school history in 2013.<\/p>\n

Under first year coordinator Cam Cameron, LSU averaged 35.8 points and racked up 453.3 total yards\u2014becoming the first team in Southeastern Conference history to featur a 3,000-yard passer, two 1,000-yard receivers and a 1,000-yard rusher.<\/p>\n

Miles had seven players from this side of the ball picked in the 2014 NFL Draft\u2014so it\u2019s definitely a bit of a rebuilding year and something to consider when looking over the college football odds page.<\/p>\n

Freshmen skill players will dominate the action, including quarterback Brandon Harris, running back Leonard Fournette and wide receivers Malachi Dupre and Trey Quinn, will be counted on to contribute.<\/p>\n

Senior offensive tackle La\u2019el Collins returns as one of the top linemen in football, considering he has started 25 of the team\u2019s last 26 games.<\/p>\n

Defense<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coordinator John Chavis returns for a sixth season\u2014seeing his unit rank among the top 12 nationally in both yards and points allowed three times in that span.<\/p>\n

The Tigers will be led by a couple of talented defensive ends in junior Danielle Hunter and senior Jermauria Rasco\u2014two of seven starters that return on this side of the ball.<\/p>\n

LSU is extremely excited about the opportunity to potentially have the best set of cornerbacks in the SEC in Tre\u2019Davious White and Rashard Robinson.<\/p>\n

Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

College football handicappers will certainly be excited about the Tigers taking on the Wisconsin Badgers in the season opener, but it\u2019s important to point out that they\u2019ve captured their last three lid lifters in a neutral setting by an average of 10 points.<\/p>\n

LSU has the ability to land one of four spots in the inaugural college football playoff, but it\u2019ll likely need to sweep a pair of road games against Auburn and Florida to open up the month of October.<\/p>\n

The program has a pair of advantageous byes at the end of the season\u2014before hosting Alabama and then finishing out its season at Texas A&M.<\/p>\n

Outlook<\/strong><\/p>\n

Miles doesn\u2019t necessarily need to be dynamic offensively, which will cause Cameron to be more conservative in his play calling after having a veteran group on offense a season ago\u2014led by NFL draftee Zach Mettenberger.<\/p>\n

LSU has a great chance of going undefeated at Tiger Stadium this season\u2014despite the fact that\u2019ll likely be a home underdog against Alabama\u2014with the venue\u2019s capacity going over 100,000 for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

Make sure to become a long term subscriber for the best college football picks anywhere for the upcoming 2014-15 NCAA football season.<\/p>\n

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LSU Tigers Head Coach:\u00a0 Les Miles 2013-14 Record:\u00a0 10-3, 5-3 Southeastern Conference 2013-14 Bowl Result:\u00a0 21-14 win over Iowa in Outback Bowl Odds to Win National Championship:\u00a0 +2142 Returning Starters Offense:\u00a0 8, Defense:\u00a0 6 Offense The Tigers return six starters on offense, including four on the offensive line from a unit that put together one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[8393,8392,8391,3309,498,3875,5487],"class_list":["post-34538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-danielle-hunter","tag-lael-collins","tag-leonard-fournette","tag-les-miles","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-southeastern-conference","tag-tiger-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34540,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538\/revisions\/34540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}