If you’ve been following along with our contender or pretender series, you know how this works. For those of you only discovering this due to your love for LSU football, let me break it down a bit for you. Being a contender has nothing to do with bowl games or being better or worse than the year before. If LSU football is to be considered a contender for the 2016 season, they must have a realistic shot at least winning the SEC West in 2016. To see how the other teams we have covered thus far stack up, check out the links below.