1-0.
That’s all you heard about this offseason concerning LSU football. That’s all you saw around the LSU football complex.
There was a 1-0 sign on the big video board at the indoor practice facility. There were 1-0 signs in the weight room. And there were the purple 1-0 T-shirts LSU players wore during pregame warmups at Clemson on Saturday, all designed to hammer home one critical point:
Find a way to start the season with a victory for the first time since 2019.
Mission spectacularly accomplished. No. 9-ranked LSU got the 17-10 win at No. 4-ranked Clemson in the first true top-10 road opener in LSU program history. It’s only LSU’s second season-opening top-five win, joining a 40-27 win by then No. 4 LSU over No. 3 Oregon 40-27 in 2011 in Arlington, Texas.
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