For the previous two seasons -- and honestly, for the majority of several seasons before that -- the rest of the SEC was chasing Alabama.
Everyone will open the 2016 season as the Crimson Tide’s pursuers, again, although only a few teams are legitimate threats to catch up to Nick Saban’s juggernaut. Over the next several days, we’ll take a look at the Tide’s fellow SEC contenders and their cases for overtaking Alabama in the upcoming season.
We now continue with SEC West heavyweight LSU, which returns one of the most experienced rosters in the nation:
How they can beat Alabama: Les Miles had plenty of experience beating Saban and Alabama at one point, but it has been a while.