This week in Baton Rouge is full-on preparation to take on Alabama football. The AP Poll’s No. 1 team is not only focusing on its next opponent, it is doing so loudly. Brash talk never won anything. Instead, it is often a sign, not of confidence, but of apprehension.
Every LSU and Alabama football fan knows the record between the two teams over the last eight games. The Alabama Crimson Tide winning streak has cloaked Baton Rouge in anger, dread, even despair.
LSU head coach, Ed Orgeron has tried his best to boldly talk his way through it.