BATON ROUGE, La. – After finishing the month of October undefeated, earning wins over Missouri, Southern Miss and Ole Miss, the LSU football team earned the BASF Team Chemistry MVP Award for the month of October.
The Tigers, under head coach Ed Orgeron, improved their record to 5-2 overall on the year and 3-1 in the SEC, rising up in the rankings to No. 15 and No. 14 in the Associated Press and Amway Coaches Top 25 Polls. On Wednesday, LSU came in at No. 13 in the first College Football Playoff ranking marking the third consecutive season that the team has featured in the first poll of the year.