If you have followed SEC football in the past decade, you have probably heard some version of this assertion: If your team can play an opponent the week after it plays Alabama or LSU, your team’s chances of victory will improve because of the physical toll playing one of those two SEC West heavyweights can exact.
And if your team can take on Alabama or LSU the week after they play each other, all the better.
"LSU-Alabama has always been a physical matchup, and I guess most people feel like, either win or lose, that team’s going to be pretty beat up because of the physicality of that game," LSU offensive lineman Will Clapp said.