It’s apropos in a way that LSU is playing Florida this week. That’s because folks will be talking about LSU AD Joe Alleva’s role in moving last season’s matchup between the two from Gainesville to Baton Rouge after Hurricane Matthew postponed the scheduled meeting.
The upshot was that LSU now travels to Gainesville this season and next, and this week’s game in the Swamp will come on the heels of LSU’s embarrassing home loss to Troy on Saturday.
We don’t mean to disparage Troy by calling it an embarrassing loss. Troy won 10 games last season, will be in the thick of the Sun Belt race this season, coach Neal Brown is going to be a hot commodity once the coaching carousel gets going and the experienced duo of QB Brandon Silvers and RB Jordan Chunn could play at a lot of Power Five schools.