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LSU football has a huge advantage over most SEC programs when it comes to recruiting.
The Tigers are alone in Louisiana as the only major in-state program, which is something that not many other programs can claim (Missouri and Arkansas also fall in this category, but they don’t have the same amount of talent to pull from).
That means LSU essentially gets first dibs on elite players from Louisiana (though the program has a lost a couple of elite players to rival SEC programs).
This is obviously a great thing for the Tigers.