Death Valley witnessed LSU celebrate its dominant win over the Southeastern Louisiana Lions, and the Baton Rouge-based Tigers now sit at No. 5 in the AP Top 25 Week 5 edition. The Tigers are going 4-0, and the momentum is strong. Brian Kelly’s words? “No perfection out there, but some progress.” Even the star QB, Garrett Nussmeier, was content: “I think we just did a better job as an offense in general.” But analyst Greg McElroy might differ in that regard.
It’s not that Garrett Nussmeier’s offense buckled or scrambled to gain yardage or reach the endzone. “I’ve been saying this for a while now, I don’t think LSU’s offense is broken,” McElroy said on ESPN College Football. It was something more than a pattern McElroy noticed about Kelly’s defense, which ironically was glaring against an