Last year was the first season in ten years I did not write a preseason Delusional Optimism piece. That means that obviously, the 2020 season was my fault.
The thing is, there just wasn’t much to be optimistic about last year, about LSU or well, anything. The Zombie Season was a brutal slog in which everything that is great about college football was absent, and the main reason the games got played before empty stadiums is so the schools could fulfill their TV contracts.
It was depressing, and served as a weekly reminder just how not normal things were last fall.