USA TODAY
ATLANTA – When the LSU Tigers take the field on Jan. 13 at Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, they will be 60 minutes of football away from completing perhaps the most impressive season in the history of their sport.
If LSU wins the national title, it will have checked every box as an all-time team: Unbeaten season against a strong schedule, a record-setting offense, a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback and victories over the two dynastic programs of this era in Alabama and Clemson, the team it will face in the championship game.