LSU fans already waving the white flag before the ball is even kicked tells you everything you need to know.
Coach fired. Interim coach literally packing his bags for Ole Miss just announced. Players opting out. Portal season excuses lined up like a CVS receipt. And now their own fans want to “flush” the guy coaching the bowl game. That’s not a football program — that’s a dumpster fire with a SEC logo slapped on it.
But somehow, when Houston wins, the media will try to whisper, “Yeah but LSU didn’t care.”
Funny how “didn’t care” only shows up after they lose.
Let’s be clear:
LSU cared enough to show up.
LSU cared enough to cash the bowl check.
LSU cared enough to put the helmet on.
Houston is ranked, focused, and actually wants to be there — while LSU had ONE win over a Top 25 team all season and still gets treated like royalty because of history and geography.
This game is a no-win narrative for LSU and that’s exactly why they’re already making excuses:
Lose → “We didn’t care”
Win → “We’re rebuilding”
Meanwhile, if Houston wins big, it’s simple math:
Ranked Houston beats SEC LSU on a neutral field.
No asterisk. No sympathy. No apologies.
Run it up.
Break their will early.
Send them to the offseason arguing about coaches, portals, and excuses.
Let the SEC chants die quietly in NRG.
This is a Houston statement game.
Our defense is great but worried about the offense bc again Lsu has tons of talent . They lost a close one to OU them barely beat western kentucky or who ever that was
We just don’t know which Lsu team will show up lol
I heard ole miss is hiring their current intern coach so he might be distracted
We need this win bc 2027 when we play them , kiffin is coaching .
We should be way better by then as well
Underestimate LSU at your own peril. They still have a lot of talent, the returning players will be trying to impress their new coaches, and the huge crowd will give them some extra juice.
My “other” team is OU, and they resemble UH a lot. I expect the game to be similar to thenOU/LSU game from a few weeks ago. Our defense is good enough to hold them to a couple of scores, our offense just has to show up.
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(SHAUN - Bill Yeoman needs to be honored with a BOBBLEHEAD!)
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LSU played Baylor last year at the Texas Bowl in front of 59,940 people, if our game draws less than that game all the pundits will say, “Houston can’t even out draw Baylor in Houston”, regardless of the breakdown of the crowd.
No way LSU wants to lose this game…not to us and not in the NIL era.
There is NOW a P4 school in the city with their largest Alumni Base…plus many T Shirt fans here.
No way LSU tolerates losing to Houston.
Of course, i think we are two ships passing in the night (in the NIL era) as LSU not only has UT and TAMU to worry about…but also Houston and Tech in this NEW era!
