The LSU Tigers have reached the quarter pole of preparations for their blockbuster Aug. 30 season opener at Clemson, scheduled to go through their seventh day of practice on Wednesday (no media access).

For some reason, college football has never had a high school jamboree-like exhibition game, and certainly no slate of preseason games like the Saints will embark on Sunday against the Chargers. The task is to figure out how to be the best you can be for an abrupt opening test. In LSU’s case, a test to see if the Tigers have what it takes to beat a fellow top-10 opponent on the road and snap an interminable five-game losing streak in openers.

How ready does LSU look to do that at this point? Not at all ready, but the Tigers don’t have to be. They have to build to a point, not be there t

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